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January 14, 2012 - Plymouth Patch - By Casey Meserve

Massachusetts legislators, including Rep. Vinny deMacedo, R-Plymouth, filed a bill to prevent an automatic 31 percent increase in the amount of money employers pay into the state's unemployment insurance trust fund.

House Minority Leader Bradley H. Jones Jr., R-North Reading, and Senate Minority Leader Bruce E. Tarr, R-Gloucester, co-sponsored the legislation.

According to a release, House and Senate Republicans cite "the current economic climate" as the reason for this legislation. "This would mark the fourth straight year that a similar bill has been passed by the Legislature protecting Massachusetts employers from this damaging and unnecessary tax hike." ...

“As a Legislature, our top priority must be to foster a business- friendly environment within the Commonwealth,” Rep. deMacedo said in the statement from his office. “As proposed, the increase would be extremely detrimental to the state’s economy in these difficult economic times.”

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January 11, 2012 - CommonWealth Magazine - By Yawu Miller

Contrasting experiences can give rise to sharply contrasting political views. Sometimes that happens even within a family.

Vinny deMacedo, a Republican state representative, and his brother Donaldo Macedo, a professor at the Univer­sity of Massachusetts Boston, may be sons of a close-knit immigrant Cape Verdean family. But they are worlds apart when it comes to political bearings.

Rep. deMacedo (the de was added to his last name in error by immigration officials) is trim and clean-cut in his dark business suits. He is a stalwart of the state Repub­lican Party, a small business owner, and a reliably conservative voice for Plymouth in the Legislature. His take on Occupy Wall Street? “Ultimately, we need banks,” he says. “Protesting against them isn’t going to change them.”