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Vinny deMacedo

American politician

Viriato Manuel Pereira de Macedo (born October 16, [2]), also popularly known as Vinny deMacedo, is a Cape Verdean American politician, and was the Massachusetts State Senator for the Plymouth and Barnstable District, which comprises the communities of Bourne, Falmouth, Kingston, Pembroke, Plymouth, and Sandwich.

Senate Committees When he first ran for the House in , he was known as "Vinny from Cedarville," where he owns a gas station. Before long, after working with residents of North Plymouth on a variety of issues, he became known as "Vinny from Plymouth. And if elected to the state Senate on Nov. What makes deMacedo popular he has won by margins in recent House races is that he likes to see the good in everyone. I prefer to agree to disagree, and I respect my opponents' positions.

He is a Republican who was sworn into the Massachusetts Senate on January 7, In November deMacedo resigned from the Massachusetts Senate to take a job in higher education.[1]

Political career

Senator deMacedo had no political experience prior to becoming a candidate for the Massachusetts House of Representatives on November 3, , running against the Democratic incumbent Joseph Gallitano.

He won the election by a tight margin of votes.[3] He subsequently won re-election as Massachusetts State Representative seven times, serving through [1]

In November , he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, succeeding retiring Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray as state senator for the Plymouth and Barnstable District.[4] As of he held the position of Ranking Minority Member on the Senate Committee on Ways and Means.[5] His legislative priorities included solving the opiate epidemic facing Massachusetts and ensuring the Commonwealth's fiscal responsibility.[6] Vinny served as one of five state senators (along with 11 state representatives) on the Joint Committee on Marijuana Policy.[7]

During his 16 years in the Massachusetts House, he received many awards for his legislative work including:

Biography

Senator deMacedo was born in Brava, Cape Verde.[8] He has six siblings, including an older brother, Donaldo Macedo.[8] In , when he was six months old, the family immigrated to the New England region of the United States, where they lived at first in Dorchester, before three years later moving to Kingston, where deMacedo was raised.[8] He graduated from Silver Lake Regional High School in He went on to study at New York's The King's College, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration in

After graduating deMacedo began working for his brother in the car business before starting his own gas station in Cedarville in He continues to be the owner and operator of the RWA Mobil Station on Route 3A.

He is a member of the Cedarville and Sagamore Business Association and the Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce.

He is married to Jennifer de Macedo, and is the father of three children.

He visited Cape Verde in January , for the first time since moving to the United States, as part of a political mission,[9] and met several members of the Cape Verdean government, including the President Pedro Pires.[10]

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References

  1. ^ abcSpillane, Geoff (November 21, ).

    "State Sen. Viriato 'Vinny' deMacedo, R-Plymouth, wraps up year legislative career". Cape Cod Times.

    Joint Committees

    UMass-Boston linguistics professor Donaldo Macedo is as liberal as they come. A linguist, he has penned books with famed lefties Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. So it is a surprise when he praises a Republican state representative who opposed gay marriage and abortion. It is more of a surprise that the politician is his brother Vinny deMacedo, R-Plymouth. Donaldo has dropped the prefix that was accidentally added to his surname when he immigrated.

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  2. ^profile at Keep Us Connected
  3. ^Robert Pree (). "Pondering A Pair Of Political Improbables: Gas station owner makes the grade". Boston Globe/NewsBank.[permanent dead link&#;]
  4. ^"DeMacedo handily wins Senate seat".
  5. ^"Senate Committee on Ways and Means".

    The th General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Archived from the original on July 26,

  6. ^"New Senator Says His Top Priority is Curbing Opiate Addiction".
  7. ^"Joint Committee on Marijuana Policy".

    Vinny demacedo biography He is a Republican who was sworn into the Massachusetts Senate on January 7, In November deMacedo resigned from the Massachusetts Senate to take a job in higher education. Senator deMacedo had no political experience prior to becoming a candidate for the Massachusetts House of Representatives on November 3, , running against the Democratic incumbent Joseph Gallitano. He won the election by a tight margin of votes. During his 16 years in the Massachusetts House, he received many awards for his legislative work including:.

    . The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved August 24,

  8. ^ abcMiller, Yawu (January 11, ). "Two Brothers, Two Sets of Political Viewpoints".

    Massachusetts State Senate I grew up in Kingston, attended school in the Silver Lake Regional District, and have been a South Plymouth resident for the past 23 years. My wife, Jennifer, and I have been married for 24 years, and we have three children, ages 20, 18 and I have owned and operated the RWA Mobil station in Cedarville for the past 23 years, and I still work at the station first thing on weekday mornings. First elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in , I have represented the 1st Plymouth District in the Legislature for 16 years, including 12 years as the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Ways and Means. Over the past 16 years, I have been honored to work on behalf of the people of Plymouth as their state representative.

    CommonWealth. Retrieved

  9. ^"Lei de repatriação dos EUA prejudica países pequenos" (in Portuguese). A Nação.
  10. ^"Pedro Pires Recebe Deputado Estadual Norte-Americano, Vinny Macedo" (in Portuguese). Expresso das Ilhas.

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