Translation:

"Although a fellow body of legally elected representatives of the Massachusettes citrizenry has voted in favor of this proposal, I will use my unique position to stonewall further discussion.  Despite the fact that I am the president of a body whose responsibility is to debate, I shall set the agenda of our debate such to prevent discussion of items with which I disagree."

As someone from MA, I'm more annoyed that they now require health insurance by law. If required car insurance is any indication, this will devolve into nothing more than a "it's against the law for us to not be taking money from you". Seriously, car insurance is at the point now where they won't cancel your insurance without prior notification that you have already bought insurance elsewhere. Yet.... you can not pay, and they cancel it then. That's almost as bad as the telecom companies that claimed the unwarrented taps were just "doing our civic duty to obey the government's request", yet they cut the taps off when the government didn't pay the bills.

I hate politics....

Wow. That is...one ugly woman.

Here I was under the false impresion that Massachusetts was a progressive state.

Massachussetts is currently the third largest state for game development (behind California and Texas). We have award-winning studios like Rockstar (GTA), Harmonix (Rock Band), 2K Games (Bioshock), and Turbine (LotR Online), and one of the largest monthly meetings of the IGDA (International Game Developer's Association) in the country. Considering how much money the game industry brings to Massachusetts, and how big the movie industry is becoming here (The Departed, anyone?) I am appalled to hear this news. Considering that these tax breaks are supported by Governor Deval Patrick, I do not see why a fellow democrat feels the need to stonewall this legislation, besides her probably buying into the age old "violent games make you violent" urban legend. As a near college graduate on the verge of setting up an independent studio here in Massachusetts, where I grew up and still live (when I'm not at school in Georgia, which, by the way, DOES have the tax breaks that are about to be stonewalled in Mass), I seriously hope she does not prevent this legislation from being passed. The voice of the people outnumbers that of one, mandatory health-care imposing liberal.

I absolutely agree with most of the other posters. This legislation needs to be passed. I am 20 years old and currently a theater major in Ma. I chose to go to school where I grew up because of cost. One thing that has made it a little better for a theater major here in Ma. lately has been the idea of this tax break because of all the movie work coming in. It provided me the opportunity to work as a paid extra on the sets of some of the movies and gain first hand experience on what it truly means to be an actor. $112 for one day for a college student is pretty good ( = I would really like to see it become a mini hollywood east here.  It will bring in revenue. This needs to be passed!