Senate · Democrat

Daniel A. Wolf

Former member, served 2015–2016 in the sessions covered here · Cape and Islands

Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.

Residence

Harwich

First elected

Senate 2010

Prior public offices

Stewardship Council, Massachusetts Dept of Conservation and Recreation; Federal Reserve Bank, New England Advisory Council Member

Occupation

Airline Executive, Founder & CEO of Cape Air

Left office

did not seek reelection in 2016 (not a candidate in the 2016 primary or general election for this seat); term ended January 4, 2017

Seats held, General Courts 189–194 (the FY2017–FY2026 budgets)
Session	Chamber	District	Lines	Note
189th (2015–16)	Senate	Cape and Islands	2011 lines

Posts and stipends

No stipend payments to Daniel A. Wolf are recorded for 2016–2026.

Posts and stipends by session (stipends by calendar year)
Session	Posts	First year	Second year
189th (2015–16)	Chair, Senate Committee on Steering and Policy	not available	not available

Posts: the Legislature’s leadership and roster records as compiled for this project; where those name no post, the member’s committee chair, vice-chair and ranking roles from the Legislature’s member profiles. Stipends: additional compensation in the Comptroller’s payroll data (CTHRU dataset 9ttk-7vz6), 2016–2026; 2026 is the year to date. Stipends for 2015 are not available. Base salary is not included.

The district

Cape and Islands on its 2011 lines: 20 cities and towns, 190,623 residents (2020).

Barnstable 26% · Yarmouth 13% · Mashpee 8% · Dennis 8% · Nantucket 7% · Harwich 7% · Brewster 5% · Chatham 3% · Orleans 3% · Eastham 3% · Oak Bluffs 3% · Edgartown 3% · Tisbury 3% · Provincetown 2% · Wellfleet 2% · West Tisbury 2% · Truro 1% · Chilmark under 1% · Aquinnah under 1% · Gosnold under 1%

Percentages are each place’s share of the district’s 2020 residents; for a town split between districts, the share of the town inside this one follows.

Population-weighted Fairness Index of the district’s cities and towns: 29 for all state aid and 46 for discretionary money (50 is a fair share).

Local earmarks are counted three ways. District money uses the first, clauses that name a place in the district; the second table adds organizations located in the district (placed in the district) and state facilities located there (everything placed). Three ways to count a local earmark.

District money, first measure: enacted earmarks in clauses naming a place in the district, by session (district money, not the member’s)
Session	District	Dollars	In corrective clauses	Per resident per budget, rank	Without corrective clauses, rank
189th (2015–16)	Cape and Islands	$145,000	$0	$0.76 · 39th of 40	$0.76 · 39th of 40

District money is where enacted earmarks land, by the place a clause names, mapped to districts by 2020 population; it is not attributed to the member and does not include leadership’s base-text money that names no place. Ranks are of district money per resident among the chamber’s districts, 1 = most. “In corrective clauses” is the part carried by a Ways and Means chair’s corrective amendments, which is leadership’s money; the last column gives the per-resident figure and rank without it. Sessions are labeled by the General Court that enacted each budget. Per-resident figures use the district as drawn for each session (2011 lines through the 192nd General Court, 2021 lines from the 193rd), so they will not equal a session’s dollars divided by the resident count above.

The same district on the other two measures, by session (enacted; includes any corrective-clause money)
Session	District	Placed in the district	Per resident per budget, rank	Everything placed	Per resident per budget, rank
189th (2015–16)	Cape and Islands	$175,000	$0.92 · 38th of 40	$175,000	$0.92 · 39th of 40

Budget amendments

Daniel A. Wolf sponsored 26 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $26.7 million in all.

Amendments sponsored

FY2017–FY2026 budgets

Adopted, known outcomes

50%

13 of 26

Chamber rate, same ask sizes

49%

expected at the chamber’s rates

Of the 26 with a known outcome, 13 were adopted (50%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about 13 (49%) would have been.

Largest enacted items matched to an amendment Daniel A. Wolf filed (strong text matches)
Year	Amount	Enacted budget text (excerpt)	Amendment
FY2017	$22,000 (shared two ways)	“a caseworker position under the Housing Assistance Corporation in the Hyannis section of the town of Barnstable to assist residents of Martha’s…”	S4 #735

Strong matches: 1 enacted item, $22,000 (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause).

For 7 amendments the sponsor is the first mover named in the amendment text, because the Legislature’s record listed none. Ask size is the larger of the earmark dollars and the line-item change an amendment requests; bands: no dollar amount, under $50,000, $50,000–$250,000, $250,000–$1 million, $1–5 million, $5 million or more. Leadership’s unattributed base-text and corrective-amendment money is never assigned to a member. The comparison describes outcomes; it is not a measure of merit.

Bills sponsored

Daniel A. Wolf filed 39 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; two were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 5% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against a chamber median of 4% for the same sessions.

Most bills die in every legislature, and many policies pass inside other bills; the chamber median for the same session is the fair comparison.

Bills filed as lead sponsor, by session and outcome
Session	Chamber	Lead bills	Enacted	Folded into an enacted bill	Sent to study	Reported favorably, then died	No action	Enacted rate	Chamber median	Cosponsored
189th (2015–16)	Senate	39	2	1	18	15	3	5%	4%	140

Enacted bills as lead sponsor

S1935 (189th): An Act authorizing the town of Nantucket to convey certain land held for open space, recreational or conservation purposes to the Nantucket Islands Land Bank and Madaket Conservation Trust for open space, recreational or conservation purposes · Chapter 165 of the Acts of 2016
S1936 (189th): An Act authorizing Nantucket County to convey certain parcels of land to the town of Nantucket · Chapter 179 of the Acts of 2016

Outcomes are the furthest point each bill reached in the record. “Folded into an enacted bill” means the history names the enacted bill that absorbed it. “Passed both branches; no chapter recorded” means the bill was enacted by both branches and laid before the Governor, with no chapter or veto in the history; in the 194th General Court such bills are shown as laid before the Governor (pending). The 194th General Court is in session until January 2027, so its open bills are pending, not dead, and its rates (*) are not comparable with completed sessions. Chairs and leaders control the calendar, which raises their rates. Source: malegislature.gov bill histories.

Recorded votes on accountability measures

No recorded votes for Daniel A. Wolf on the accountability measures in this file.

The file covers selected roll calls on the Legislature’s own rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay, 2017–2026.

Campaign money in

Daniel A. Wolf’s committee reported $750 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2015–2016.

By year (years in the Legislature)
Year	Contributions
2015	$750
2016	$0

By kind of contributor
Kind	Total	Share
Unions and associations	$500	67%
Individuals	$250	33%

Individuals’ money by the employer they reported
Employer reported	Share
Not reported or withheld	100%

Not counted as contributions: $2,470 in other receipts of $250 or more in the same years (candidate loans and the candidate’s own money, transfers, refunds, bank interest and aggregated small receipts).

The same committee also reported $0 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2019), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.

Largest employers and organizations
Employer or organization	Kind	Total	Contributions
MA & NO NEW ENGLAND LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL	union or association	$500	1

Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Wolf Committee (CPF 15098). Individuals are grouped by the employer they reported; no individual contributor is named, and an employer field that is a person’s name is withheld. Massachusetts bars business contributions to candidates. Employer shows affiliation, not instruction.

Sources

Every figure traces to a public record.

Facts only: posts, stipends, sponsored amendments, enacted items, roll-call votes and district money. No score or grade is computed. Associations shown here are not evidence of cause. Method.