Common Cause Scorecard: How Did Each Senator Do?
GoLocalProv News Team and Jack Andrade
Common Cause Scorecard: How Did Each Senator Do?
See Slides of Senators and Their Scores Below
"We are disappointed that the Assembly did not take up more systematic reform to strengthen ethics and increase participation in our democracy" says John Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island. "In the wake of an election with significant lines in 2012 and an FBI raid of the State House there is much work that needed to be done to draw citizens into our democracy and limit conflicts of interest."
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTCommon Cause Rhode Island is a nonpartisan organization "whose mission is to promote representative democracy by ensuring open, ethical, accountable, effective government processes at local, state and national levels by educating and mobilizing the citizens of Rhode Island."
Senator Dawson Hodgson (Republican, District 35) was the highest scoring Senator at 64%. The lowest scoring Senator (45%) was Dominick J. Ruggerio (Democrat, District 4).
The average score for members of the Senate was 56%, a rise from all-time low of 51% in 2009-2010.
Common Cause used 25 House Bills and 23 Senate Bills in calculating scores for each legislator. Common Cause focuses on core issues: "campaign finance and election reform, ethics, judicial selection, open government and legislative rules, and separation of powers."
Common Cause never endorses candidates for any public office. The scorecard reports only how members of the General Assembly voted on particular bills of concern to Common Cause. Scoring does not constitute opposition or endorsement.
RI Senators Scorecard
Dennis L. Algiere
Senator
District: 38
Party: R
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 0
Final Score: 60%
Stephen R. Archambault
Senator
District: 22
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
David E. Bates
Senator
District: 32
Party: R
Pro-CC Votes: 16
Anti-CC Votes: 11
Did Not Vote: 8
Final Score: 52%
Frank A. Ciccone III
Senator
District: 7
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 16
Anti-CC Votes: 8
Did Not Vote: 11
Final Score: 54%
William J. Conley, Jr.
Senator
District: 18
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 15
Did Not Vote: 0
Final Score: 57%
Catherine Cool Rumsey
Senator
District: 34
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 13
Did Not Vote: 2
Final Score: 59%
Marc A. Cote
Senator
District: 24
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 16
Anti-CC Votes: 10
Did Not Vote: 9
Final Score: 52%
Elizabeth A. Crowley
Senator
District: 16
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
Daniel Da Ponte
Senator
District: 14
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 16
Anti-CC Votes: 5
Did Not Vote: 4
Final Score: 57%
Louis P. DiPalma
Senator
District: 12
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 0
Final Score: 60%
James E. Doyle II
Senator
District: 8
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 16
Anti-CC Votes: 10
Did Not Vote: 9
Final Score: 52%
Walter S. Felag Jr.
Senator
District: 10
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
Paul W. Fogarty
Senator
District: 23
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 16
Anti-CC Votes: 10
Did Not Vote: 9
Final Score: 52%
Hanna M. Gallo
Senator
District: 27
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
Gayle L. Goldin
Senator
District: 3
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 16
Anti-CC Votes: 11
Did Not Vote: 8
Final Score: 52%
Maryellen Goodwin
Senator
District: 1
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
Dawson Tucker Hodgson
Senator
District: 35
Party: R
Pro-CC Votes: 22
Anti-CC Votes: 12
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 64%
Paul V. Jabour
Senator
District: 5
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 15
Did Not Vote: 0
Final Score: 57%
Nicholas D. Kettle
Senator
District: 21
Party: R
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 0
Final Score: 60%
Frank S. Lombardi
Senator
District: 26
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 18
Anti-CC Votes: 12
Did Not Vote: 5
Final Score: 55%
Frank S. Lombardo III
Senator
District: 25
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 17
Anti-CC Votes: 15
Did Not Vote: 3
Final Score: 51%
Erin P. Lynch
Senator
District: 31
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
Michael J. McCaffrey
Senator
District: 29
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 18
Anti-CC Votes: 10
Did Not Vote: 7
Final Score: 57%
Harold M. Metts
Senator
District: 6
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 18
Anti-CC Votes: 17
Did Not Vote: 0
Final Score: 51%
Joshua Miller
Senator
District: 28
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 17
Anti-CC Votes: 16
Did Not Vote: 2
Final Score: 50%
Donna M. Nesselbush
Senator
District: 15
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 15
Did Not Vote: 0
Final Score: 57%
Edward J. O'Neill
Senator
District: 17
Party: I
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 11
Did Not Vote: 3
Final Score: 63%
Christopher Scott Ottiano
Senator
District: 11
Party: R
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 0
Final Score: 60%
M. Teresa Paiva Weed
Senator
District: 13
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
Ryan W. Pearson
Senator
District: 19
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
Roger A. Picard
Senator
District: 20
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
Juan M. Pichardo
Senator
District: 20
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
Leonidas P. Raptakis
Senator
District: 20
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
Dominick J. Ruggerio
Senator
District: 4
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 15
Anti-CC Votes: 17
Did Not Vote: 3
Final Score: 45%
Adam J. Satchell
Senator
District: 9
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 21
Anti-CC Votes: 13
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 61%
James C. Sheehan
Senator
District: 36
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 18
Anti-CC Votes: 11
Did Not Vote: 6
Final Score: 56%
V. Susan Sosnowski
Senator
District: 37
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 20
Anti-CC Votes: 14
Did Not Vote: 1
Final Score: 58%
William A. Walaksa
Senator
District: 30
Party: D
Pro-CC Votes: 18
Anti-CC Votes: 11
Did Not Vote: 6
Final Score: 58%
