Francisco Paulino

Vote was on increasing the cost of the shelter system and administrative burden for those seeking emergency shelter, and advancing right-wing narratives demonizing the unhoused and struggling

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on drastically reducing the amount of money appropriated for emergency shelter, meaning more families on the streets

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on creating burdensome paperwork requirements for families seeking access to emergency shelter and excluding newly arriving families

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on blaming ballooning Sheriff budgets on the free calls provided to incarcerated individuals seeking to talk with their loved ones as opposed to well-documented corruption

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on challenging the constitutionality of the longstanding 40B program, which ensures affordable housing is built in all communities

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on limiting access to emergency shelter and increasing administrative burden for people seeking shelter and housing providers

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on preventing the state from conditioning public safety grants on compliance with the MBTA Communities law's requirements for rezoning for housing near transit stations

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on preventing the enforcement of the MBTA Communities law, which requires rezoning for multifamily housing near transit, until 2027

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on creating an extremely burdensome photo ID law that would turn away eligible voters and increase voting wait times

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on taking away bodily autonomy by expanding the bill’s privacy protections to anyone who refuses to obtain reproductive health care services, gender-affirming health care services, or any other preventative medical care on behalf of themselves or their minor children, thereby enabling a parent to interrupt or prevent even common reproductive care such as birth control

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on ensuring that abortion and abortion-related health care services are clearly and explicitly protected in the updated shield law

Progressive Position: YES

Vote was on expanding the state’s telehealth shield law by prohibiting all state actors from cooperating with any out-of-state hostile litigation, establishing state-level EMTALA protections for emergency abortion care, allowing providers critical anonymity by using their practice name on prescription labels for reproductive and gender-affirming health care medicines, and ensuring all clinicians and lawyers are protected from professional discipline related to hostile litigation, and more

Progressive Position: YES

Vote was on requiring the state to approve new gas infrastructure projects, thus increasing pollution and making it harder to achieve our climate goals

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on creating bureaucratic hurdles for renewable energy generation

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on striking the strong new offshore wind and solar targets in the underlying energy bill

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on striking the $1 billion in cuts to Mass Save in the House's energy bill, recognizing the harmfulness to climate action, good jobs, and customer savings such cuts would pose

Progressive Position: YES

Vote was on banning stronger vehicle fuel efficiency standards for five years

Progressive Position: NO

Co-sponsored at least 50% of the bills tracked on our Progressive Scorecard website.

Progressive Position: YES

Co-sponsored at least 75% of the bills tracked on our Progressive Scorecard website.

Progressive Position: YES

Co-sponsored 100% of the bills tracked on our Progressive Scorecard website

Progressive Position: YES

Visited a Department of Correction prison or County jail this legislative session. (This will be updated upon response.)

Progressive Position: YES