Thursday, March 10, 2011

How Did the Delegates Vote? Part Four

This is part four (and the final post) in a series about how delegates voted yesterday on amendments to the marriage equality bill. See the first post for information about the content of the amendments. This post looks at how Democrats from Baltimore County and Baltimore City voted.

Baltimore City
Fourteen of the 18 delegates voted nay on all amendments. Del. Rosenberg (41) voted nay on all amendments except he didn't vote on the Braveboy referendum amendment. Del. Conaway (40) voted nay on three of the amendments except that he voted yea on the Braveboy amendment. Del. Carter (41) voted nay on two amendments, yea on the Braveboy amendment, and didn't vote on the Serafini amendment to change the title of the bill. Del. Oaks (41) voted yea on the Braveboy and Serafini amendments; he voted nay on the
Afzali amendment on teaching about homosexuality and the Donoghue amendment about the rights of adoption agencies to discriminate.

Baltimore County
Six of the 13 Baltimore County Democrats voted against all four amendments: Dels. Jones (10), Nathan-Pulliam (10), Cardin (11), Morhaim (11), Stein (11), and Lafferty (42). Three voted for all four amendments: Dels. Minnick (6), Weir (6), and Burns (10).

Del. Olszewski (6) voted for the Afzali and Donoghue amendments about the rights of adoption agencies to discriminate but against the Braveboy and Serafini amendments. Del. DeBoy (12A) voted nay on the Afzali and Braveboy amendments, and yea on the Donoghue and Serafini amendments.

Del. Bromwell (8) voted against three of the amendments but for the Donoghue amendment. Del. Malone (12A) also voted against three of the amendments but didn't vote on the Braveboy amendment.