Benjamin Downing says he will run for governor of Massachusetts, and to run an election, he will have to raise money.
Downing, a Democrat who served as a state senator from Pittsfield from 2007 to 2017, has experience doing that already. So when he was running in elections in the state legislature who funded him?
The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill that sought to increase the state's gasoline tax and tax ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. The vote was 113 Yea, 40 Nay, 4 Not Voting.
All Yea votes came from Democrats. All Republicans voted Nay, as did eight Democrats and one unenrolled member (which means not a member of a political party). Four Democrats did not vote.
