Policy criticism
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81%
of State Senate Democrats score to the right of Feeney on the CSIP scale
CSIP score −0.90 (approximate range −0.95 to −0.84, which understates the uncertainty); negative is left of the scale’s centre, positive right. From 576 donors and no roll calls.
CSIP places every official on one left–right scale estimated from roll-call votes, campaign donations and the text of statements; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of moderate. The share says where Feeney sits among State Senate Democrats, not how far from the centre.
At a glance
4 measures against State Senate Democrats. 1.7% of the 232 bills Feeney sponsored got out of committee, in the top half of the Massachusetts Senate. Feeney reported $39.2K in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom half of State Senate Democrats (median $55.5K).
The measures on which Feeney sits furthest from the middle of State Senate Democrats, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
CSIP ideology
−0.90
More liberal than 81% of State Senate Democrats · ± 0.05
Out of committee
1.7%
Massachusetts Senate average 2.0% · ranks 18th of 40
Itemized, 2026
$39.2K
State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K · ranks 430th of 746
From Massachusetts, 2026
94%
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 332nd of 714 State Senate Democrats
Statements
2
2 posts on X
Bills sponsored
232
and 188 cosponsored
Peer group: State Senate Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Feeney, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Feeney is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Feeney says
Feeney claims credit less than 97% of State Senate Democrats. Credit claiming in 0% of 2 statements, against 16% for the average State Senate Democrat; 322nd of 330.
An AI model reads each of Feeney’s 2 statements in the MA 2025–26 session (2 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State Senate Democrats and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the MA 2025–26 session
0%80%
Feeney
Peers
Rank
Policy criticism2 statements
100%
10%
1st of 330
Policy discussion2 statements
100%
43%
1st of 330
Personal attacks1 statements
50%
2%
1st of 330
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
3%
294th of 330
Credit claiming0 statements
0%
16%
322nd of 330
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| Row | Feeney | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy criticism | 100% | 10% |
| Policy discussion | 100% | 43% |
| Personal attacks | 50% | 2% |
| Bipartisanship | 0% | 3% |
| Credit claiming | 0% | 16% |
2
statements classified
2 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 2 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Feeney; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Democrats. A longer thick bar means Feeney does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Feeney used no extreme labels in 2 statements. The peer average is 0.8%.
No extreme labels in this window.
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
No targets recorded.
What an extreme label is
Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.
Month by month
Share of statements per month, the MA 2025–26 session
No month in this window has 10 or more statements, too few to chart month by month.
How to read the strips
Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the MA 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%. 22 months are hatched here; 20 of them have no statements.
In Feeney’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Personal attacks
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Oct 15, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · personal attacks; policy criticism; policy discussion; Emergency Management; target: DJT · Source
Examples by category
Up to five recent statements in each category
Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · policy criticism · policy discussion · Emergency Management · target: DJTSource
All 2 statements
Newest first, the MA 2025–26 session
The full feed
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 2 posts on X.
Policy
Emergency Management is what Feeney talks about most: 50% of policy statements, 13.4 times the peer share. Peers give it 3.7%. Agreement with legislation needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Feeney talks about. The bills Feeney sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Feeney talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the MA 2025–26 session
0%55%
Feeney
Peers
Emergency Management1 statements
50%
4%
Health1 statements
50%
17%
Agriculture and Food0 statements
0%
5%
Armed Forces and National Security0 statements
0%
3%
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues0 statements
0%
8%
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| Row | Feeney | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency Management | 50% | 4% |
| Health | 50% | 17% |
| Agriculture and Food | 0% | 5% |
| Armed Forces and National Security | 0% | 3% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 0% | 8% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Feeney’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State Senate Democrats. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Talks about · legislates on
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 55%. Grey ticks are the State Senate Democrats averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State Senate Democrats, talks about | Legislates on | State Senate Democrats, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Management | 50% | 4% | 2% | 1% |
| Health | 50% | 17% | 16% | 15% |
| Agriculture and Food | 0% | 5% | 2% | 3% |
| Armed Forces and National Security | 0% | 3% | 0% | 1% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 0% | 8% | 4% | 5% |
No agreement score.Needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills in the window.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Feeney legislates on exactly the areas Feeney talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Feeney sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Feeney sits at −0.90 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 81% of State Senate Democrats. Approximate range −0.95 to −0.84, which understates the uncertainty; from 576 donors and no roll calls.
CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.
−0.90
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range −0.95 to −0.84. From 576 donors and no roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Feeney, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Feeney’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.
Where Feeney sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State Senate Democrats825 · median −0.7
Massachusetts Senate39 · median −0.7
All State Senate1,909 · median +0.1
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| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Feeney |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senate Democrats | 825 | −0.7 | 19% |
| Massachusetts Senate | 39 | −0.7 | 18% |
| All State Senate | 1909 | +0.1 | 8% |
How to read the strips
Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Feeney in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Feeney.
Money
Feeney reported $39.2K in the 2026 cycle, below the State Senate Democrats’ median of $55.5K. State filings report no small-donation total. 94% of itemized individual money came from Massachusetts.
Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.
$39.2K
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 126 itemized donors. State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
- Individuals (itemized)71 squares$27.9K
- PACs and other committees29 squares$11.3K
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| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $27.9K | 71.2% |
| PACs and other committees | $11.3K | 28.8% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.
Receipts by cycle
Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Democrats’ median for 2026.
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| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $80.9K |
| 2022 cycle | $89.1K |
| 2024 cycle | $74.4K |
| 2026 cycle | $39.2K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 94% came from Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts$26.2K
- Tennessee$1,000
- Florida$500
- New Jersey$200
Small donations
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Where itemized donors live
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
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| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts | $26.2K |
| Tennessee | $1,000 |
| Florida | $500 |
| New Jersey | $200 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Illinois | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| New York | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| Pennsylvania | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| California | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Colorado | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Maryland | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| North Carolina | No data |
| South Carolina | No data |
| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Texas | No data |
126
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
94%
from Massachusetts
Of itemized individual dollars
How to read the map
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Massachusetts. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- PHYSICIAN$3,740 17 donors
- ATTORNEY$2,500 13 donors
- NOT EMPLOYED$2,350 9 donors
- LOBBYIST$2,200 11 donors
- CEO$1,400 3 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- 1199 SEIU MA PAC$1,000
- LOCAL 509 SERVICE EMPLOYEES INT'L UNION COMM ON POL ED, MA WORKERS' POL ACTION COMM.$1,000
- BOSTON CARMEN'S UNION PAC$500
- BOSTON POLICE PATROLMENS ASSOC. POL ACTION COMM.$500
- CVS HEALTH MASSACHUSETTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$500
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- GREATER BOSTON UROLOGY$2,480 15 donors
- SMITH COSTELLO & CRAWFORD$700 4 donors
- GASTRO HEALTH$600 4 donors
- ISSUES MANAGEMENT GROUP$600 3 donors
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
No roll-call votes for the MA 2025–26 session.No roll-call votes are recorded for this official in this time window.
Legislation
Feeney sponsored 232 bills in the MA 2025–26 session; 2 became law. Cosponsored 188 others. 1.7% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Massachusetts Senate average 2.0%; 18th of 40).
The bills Feeney sponsored and cosponsored in the MA 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.
Bills by stage
Counts for the MA 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 232 | 230 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Cosponsored | 188 | 186 | 14 | 12 | 9 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Feeney sponsored, ochre blocks bills Feeney cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
1.7%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Massachusetts Senate average 2.0%. Ranks 18th of 40.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Feeney, by number of shared bills in the MA 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Jamie Eldridge117
- John Keenan88
- Jo Comerford79
- Mike Brady74
- Patrick O'Connor72
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Feeney’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| S 3266 | An Act authorizing the town of Foxborough to grant three additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises | Sponsor | Aug 27, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Commerce(model) | Read second and ordered to a third reading Sep 8, 2026 |
| S 3240 | An Act establishing protections for workers in extreme temperatures | Cosponsor | Aug 10, 2026 | In committee | Labor and Employment(model) | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means Aug 10, 2026 |
| S 3198 | An Act relative to the regulation of Kratom | Cosponsor | Aug 10, 2026 | In committee | Health(model) | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means Aug 10, 2026 |
| S 3226 | Amendment S.3226 | Sponsor | Jul 23, 2026 | Introduced | Economics and Public Finance(model) | See S3178 Jul 23, 2026 |
| S 3208 | Amendment S.3208 | Cosponsor | Jul 23, 2026 | Introduced | Economics and Public Finance(model) | See S3178 Jul 23, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Feeney’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Feeney’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Feeney posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 1
pages crawled
1changes in 90 days
- 19
pages crawled
15changes in 90 days
How to read the counts
“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.
Social accounts
Images Feeney posted
No images from Feeney’s posts have been described.
About the descriptions
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
State floor speeches
No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.
Floor speeches
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
Methods and sources
How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.
The headline
The headline is the measure on which Feeney is most unusual among State Senate Democrats, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.
The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.
A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).
Identifiers
- Profile id
- b390af07-1fa2-4516-b8f0-b6bd1b62121a
- Open States
- ocd-person/b390af07-1fa2-4516-b8f0-b6bd1b62121a
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
Freshness of this profile’s data
- What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
- Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
- Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
- Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
- Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
- WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
- State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.
How the measures work
- What politicians say
- Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
- Extreme labels
- A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
- Policy areas and agreement
- Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
- Ideology (CSIP)
- Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
- Campaign money
- Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
- Votes and key votes
- Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
- Peers and ranks
- Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.
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