State Senate, Plymouth and Barnstable District: Bourne, Falmouth, Kingston, Mashpee, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton and Sandwich. Every line on this page is a recorded vote, the candidate’s own website, or his or her own words in print. Tap any receipt.
Dylan Fernandes, in his own words: “I was the first in the legislature to propose a mansion tax on multi-million-dollar home sales.”
Receipts
- The mansion tax quotation: Rappaport Foundation profile, “Dylan Fernandes: Cape Crusader”. The same profile describes it as a fee of 0.5 to 2 percent that communities could place on property sales over $1 million.
- “He served in the House of Representatives from 2017-2025.” dylanfernandes.com, About
- H.58, the 2025 supplemental budget with $425 million for the emergency shelter system, Fernandes recorded Yea: Senate Roll Call 16, Feb. 12, 2025; bill history
- The 2024 firearms law, Fernandes recorded Yes both times: House roll call 62, Oct. 18, 2023; House roll call 135, July 18, 2024 (H.4885)
“I was the first in the legislature to propose a mansion tax on multi-million-dollar home sales.”
Taxes
“I oppose any additional tax increases on families and small businesses.”
Receipts
- Fernandes: Rappaport Foundation profile
- Fernandes also voted yes on the 2023 tax relief package, which passed the House 155 to 1: House roll call 33, Sept. 27, 2023 (H.4104)
- MacRae: karimacrae.com, Issues; “I will advocate for fiscal accountability in the state budget”: same page
Voted yes on $425 million for the emergency shelter system in 2025. He says the Legislature also limited stays to six months and capped the number of families.
Shelters
“I oppose Massachusetts becoming a sanctuary state.” “I support full cooperation between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.”
Receipts
- H.58, Fernandes recorded Yea: Senate Roll Call 16, Feb. 12, 2025. As a state representative he voted yes on the 2024 shelter funding bills: House roll call 81, Mar. 6, 2024; House roll call 94, Apr. 25, 2024
- Fernandes, in his own words: “We ended the permanent right to shelter law, limiting it to 6 months and capping the number of families at 4,000, putting in residency requirements, and background checks.” And: “Massachusetts does not have the endless funds to continually pay for migrant housing and these reforms were necessary to give Massachusetts residents priority.” dylanfernandes.com, Issues
- MacRae, both quotations: karimacrae.com, Issues
Twice: when the bill first passed the House in 2023, and again on the final version in July 2024.
Amendment
“I support the 2nd Amendment as written.”
Receipts
- Fernandes recorded Yes: House roll call 62, Oct. 18, 2023 (H.4135, engrossed as H.4139); House roll call 135, July 18, 2024 (H.4885, the conference report, now Chapter 135 of the Acts of 2024)
- MacRae: karimacrae.com, Issues
- That law is Question 9 on your November ballot: our ballot guide
Voted against requiring a recorded vote on final compromise bills, and against a 48-hour minimum to read them.
Government
“I will support the state auditor in completing a full audit.” “72% of voters support the audit.”
Receipts
- Recorded vote on compromise bills: Fernandes recorded Nay, Senate roll call 6, Feb. 12, 2025 (9 to 29). The amendment, filed by Sen. John Keenan, a Democrat: “all conference committee reports shall require a call for yeas and nays” (S.15, amendment 22).
- 48 hours: Fernandes recorded Nay, Senate roll call 4, Feb. 12, 2025 (5 to 33). The amendment would have held a compromise bill “until a minimum of 48 hours have passed since the filing of the report” (S.15, amendment 10). The rule it would have replaced holds a bill “until the 2nd calendar day following the day on which said report was filed”.
- Both votes are also reported in Beacon Hill Roll Call, The Enterprise, Feb. 21, 2025.
- These were votes on the proposed joint House-Senate rules for 2025-2026 (S.15). They were not votes on the auditor’s audit of the Legislature, and we found no statement from Fernandes on that audit.
- MacRae, both quotations: karimacrae.com, Issues
His campaign: he “voted to support the Student Opportunity Act, Universal School meals, and free community college.”
“I will advocate for parental rights in education.” She chairs the Bourne School Committee.
Receipts
- Fernandes: dylanfernandes.com, Issues
- MacRae: karimacrae.com, Issues; “currently chairs the Bourne School Committee”: karimacrae.com, About
- MacRae on school funding: she “Will advocate for additional funds to provide our schools the resources needed to close the "educational gap" created during the pandemic”: Issues
Worked on Maura Healey’s campaign for attorney general and in the attorney general’s office before the Legislature. “First elected at 26.”
Office
“Kari has spent the past 3 decades working as a financial banking manager, small business owner, and educator.” In Bourne since 1999.
Receipts
- Fernandes “served as political director for Maura T. Healey’s campaign for attorney general; and worked as a field organizer for Edward Markey’s US Senate campaign”: Falmouth Enterprise, Sept. 2024
- “Before being elected to the House of Representatives, Senator Fernandes served in the Attorney General’s Office”: malegislature.gov, biography. “First elected at 26, Fernandes was the second-youngest legislator serving in the Massachusetts House in his inaugural session.” dylanfernandes.com, About
- MacRae: karimacrae.com, About, which also says she “has lived in Bourne since 1999”
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Election Day
Votes are from the roll calls of the Massachusetts House and Senate, except where a newspaper’s roll-call column is named. In 2024 Fernandes won this seat 59,137 to 56,335 (Ballotpedia). Quotations are trimmed for length only, never reworded. Sources were read on October 4, 2026. Photos: Fernandes official legislative photo (malegislature.gov); MacRae campaign photo.