Senate · Democrat
Linda Dorcena Forry
Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.
Residence
Boston
First elected
House 2005 (special); Senate 2013 (special)
Occupation
State Senator
Left office
did not seek reelection in 2018 (not a candidate in the 2018 primary or general election for this seat); term ended January 2, 2019
| Session | Chamber | District | Lines | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | Senate | First Suffolk | 2011 lines | |
| 190th (2017–18) | Senate | First Suffolk | 2011 lines |
Posts and stipends
Linda Dorcena Forry was paid $58,292 in leadership and committee stipends from 2016 to 2018.
| Session | Posts | First year | Second year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | Chair, Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs | not available | $15,000 |
| 190th (2017–18) | Title not in the roster records; a stipend was paid | $40,200 | $3,092 |
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
First Suffolk on its 2011 lines: 1 city or town, 176,126 residents (2020).
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: 43 for all state aid and 36 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.
| Session | District | Dollars | In corrective clauses | Per resident per budget, rank | Without corrective clauses, rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | First Suffolk | $962,000 | $0 | $5.46 · 5th of 40 | $5.46 · 5th of 40 |
| 190th (2017–18) | First Suffolk | $3M | $40,000 | $8.60 · 2nd of 40 | $8.49 · 3rd 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.
| Session | District | Placed in the district | Per resident per budget, rank | Everything placed | Per resident per budget, rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | First Suffolk | $1.2M | $7.07 · 6th of 40 | $1.4M | $7.95 · 7th of 40 |
| 190th (2017–18) | First Suffolk | $5.2M | $14.90 · 2nd of 40 | $5.6M | $15.85 · 3rd of 40 |
Budget amendments
Linda Dorcena Forry sponsored 75 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $31 million in all.
Amendments sponsored
75
FY2017–FY2026 budgets
Adopted, known outcomes
32%
24 of 75
Chamber rate, same ask sizes
47%
expected at the chamber’s rates
Of the 75 with a known outcome, 24 were adopted (32%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about 35 (47%) would have been.
| Year | Amount | Enacted budget text (excerpt) | Amendment |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2018 | $135,000 | “the implementation of a gang to college pilot program to serve gang-involved youth from high-crime areas in the city of Boston enrolled in college…” | S3 #989 |
| FY2018 | $75,000 (shared two ways) | “the Arlington Youth Counseling Center” | S3 #528 |
| FY2018 | $70,000 (shared two ways) | “the Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County, Inc” | S3 #933 |
| FY2018 | $50,000 | “Youth and Family Enrichment Services, Inc. to provide after-school academic enrichment for area youth” | S3 #216 |
| FY2018 | $50,000 | “the Mattapan Integrative Care Partnership pilot program among the Mattapan Community Health Center, Inc., Mattahunt Community Center, Mattahunt…” | S3 #563 |
Strong matches: 7 enacted items, $480,000 (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). A further two weaker text matches are not listed; attribution is inferred from amendment text and is less certain there.
For 13 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
Linda Dorcena Forry filed 63 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; one was enacted on its own. In completed sessions, 2% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against chamber medians of 3% to 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.
| 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 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 4% | 4% | 229 |
| 190th (2017–18) | Senate | 40 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 15 | 2 | 0% | 3% | 187 |
Enacted bills as lead sponsor
- S1646 (189th): An Act authorizing the conveyance of a certain parcel of land in the city of Boston to the Haitian Church of the Nazarene Friends of the Humbles and the Greater Boston Nazarene Compassionate Center · Chapter 228 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
Linda Dorcena Forry cast eight yes-or-no votes on the eight accountability roll calls in this file (five yes, three no).
| Date | Measure | Vote | Chamber result |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 26, 2017 | Senate engrossment of the pay-raise bill | Yes | Yeas 31, nays 9 |
| February 2, 2017 | Amendment 2.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Matters considered in an informal session | Yes | Yeas 38, nays 0 |
| February 2, 2017 | Amendment 3.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Time to consider matters in an informal | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| February 2, 2017 | Amendment 7.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Provided with text of bills prior to poll | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| February 2, 2017 | Special orders by majority instead of two-thirds (contested meaning) | No | Yeas 6, nays 33 |
| February 2, 2017 | Amendment 11.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Unanimous consent | No | Yeas 6, nays 33 |
| February 2, 2017 | Amendment 13.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Timely Local Aid Notification | No | Yeas 7, nays 32 |
| February 2, 2017 | Senate override of the veto of the pay-raise bill | Yes | Yeas 31, nays 9 |
Votes marked “contested meaning” are rules-package and public-records passage votes; reform advocates were on both sides of them. Descriptions are the project’s plain summaries of each question, or the question as recorded for rules-package roll calls; the official record is on malegislature.gov. Votes are facts; no score is computed.
Campaign money in
Linda Dorcena Forry’s committee reported $215,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2015–2018.
| Year | Contributions |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $92,000 |
| 2016 | $95,000 |
| 2017 | $26,000 |
| 2018 | $2,000 |
| Kind | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals | $194,000 | 91% |
| Political committees and PACs | $18,000 | 9% |
| Unions and associations | $2,050 | 1% |
| Employer reported | Share |
|---|---|
| A named employer | 64% |
| Self-employed | 23% |
| Retired | 1% |
| Homemaker or at home | 7% |
| Not reported or withheld | 5% |
Not counted as contributions: $8,900 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).
| Employer or organization | Kind | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRINITY FINANCIAL | individuals, by employer | $4,000 | 7 |
| BLACKBAUD | individuals, by employer | $3,000 | 3 |
| GFD | individuals, by employer | $2,500 | 4 |
| SULLIVAN AND WORCESTER | individuals, by employer | $2,300 | 5 |
| COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER | individuals, by employer | $2,250 | 7 |
| CITY POINT CAPITAL | individuals, by employer | $2,250 | 3 |
| CHARLES RIVER | individuals, by employer | $2,000 | 2 |
| HADCO | individuals, by employer | $2,000 | 2 |
| BOSTON PROPERTIES | individuals, by employer | $2,000 | 4 |
| CITY REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT GROUP | individuals, by employer | $2,000 | 2 |
Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Forry Committee (CPF 14359). 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.
- Massachusetts Legislature, members, districts and roll calls
- Budget amendments and enacted budgets, FY2017–FY2026
- CTHRU payroll, Office of the Comptroller (stipends)
- Office of Campaign and Political Finance
- District lines: Acts of 2011 and 2021; Census 2020 block populations
- Official profile (prior offices, occupation)
- Election statistics (first elected, residence)
- Leaving office (election statistics)
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.