State Representative, Twelfth Plymouth District: Kingston and parts of Plymouth, Halifax, Pembroke and Duxbury. Check your sample ballot for your precinct. Every line on this page is a recorded vote, the candidate’s own website, or his own words in print. Tap any receipt.
Kathleen LaNatra of Kingston has held this seat since 2019. In 2026 she is asking you for a fifth term.
Receipts
- Four terms since 2019, seeking a fifth, chair of the House Committee on Federal Funding, Policy and Accountability: Plymouth Independent, 2026; malegislature.gov
- Voted Nay on cutting the state sales tax from 6.25% to 5%: House roll call 158, Apr. 27, 2026 (the amendment failed 25 to 131)
- 2024 General, Twelfth Plymouth: LaNatra 53.1%, Eric J. Meschino 46.8%: Secretary of the Commonwealth, ElectionStats
When Republicans moved to cut the state sales tax to 5 percent in April 2026, she voted no. She voted no on their other budget tax-cut amendments too.
“Oppose new and higher taxes on Massachusetts families and small businesses” and bring “common-sense fiscal responsibility to Beacon Hill spending.”
Receipts
- LaNatra recorded Nay on cutting the state sales tax from 6.25% to 5%, House roll call 158 (25 to 131); and Nay on two further Republican tax-cut amendments to the 2026 state budget, roll call 159 and roll call 162 (each 25 to 132), all Apr. 27, 2026. For the record, she voted Yes on the 2023 bipartisan tax-relief package, which passed 155 to 1: roll call 33, Sept. 27, 2023.
- Meschino: ericmeschino.com, Priorities
Voted for the 2024 climate law. Every vote against it was a Republican.
Mandates
“Fight to lower energy costs and reject mandates that drive up utility bills.”
Receipts
- LaNatra recorded Yea on the 2024 climate law, S. 2967, on acceptance of the report: House roll call 201, Nov. 14, 2024 (passed 128 to 17; the 17 Nays were Republicans)
- Meschino: ericmeschino.com, Priorities
Voted for the 2026 state energy bill that most Republicans opposed. New England already pays some of the highest electric bills in the country.
Electric Bill
“Lower the cost of living and energy so hardworking families can afford to stay and thrive here.”
Receipts
- LaNatra recorded Yea on the 2026 energy bill, H. 5151, on passing to be engrossed: House roll call 141, Feb. 26, 2026 (passed 128 to 27; most Republicans voted Nay)
- Meschino: ericmeschino.com
In the House since 2019, chair of a House committee, running for a fifth term with her party in control of Beacon Hill.
Are
A commercial lobsterman for 25 years and a small-business owner. “A proud blue-collar worker” running as “Fiercely Independent.”
Receipts
- LaNatra: in the House since 2019, seeking a fifth term, committee chair: Plymouth Independent, 2026; malegislature.gov
- Meschino: “it has been Eric’s work as a commercial lobsterman that best defines his commitment to our community”, a “proud blue-collar worker and small business owner”, “Fiercely Independent”: ericmeschino.com, About; ericmeschino.com
Her campaign names affordability, seniors and small business. The working waterfront is not among her stated priorities.
Waterfront
“Defend the commercial fishing industry and the blue-collar jobs it supports” and “give the people who work our coastline a real voice in state policy.”
Receipts
- Meschino: ericmeschino.com, Priorities; ericmeschino.com
- LaNatra’s stated priorities (affordability, seniors, small business), with no fishing plank: Plymouth Independent, 2026
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Election Day
Votes are from the roll calls of the Massachusetts House. In 2024 LaNatra won this seat 53.1% to 46.8% (Secretary of the Commonwealth). Meschino holds no state office, so his side is his own campaign website and his own words. Quotations are trimmed for length only, never reworded. Sources were read on October 6, 2026. Photos: LaNatra official House portrait (malegislature.gov); Meschino campaign photo (ericmeschino.com).