Patrick M. Natale is an American attorney and politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts House of Representatives

The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms...

 from 2005-2009. He was defeated by James J. Dwyer

James J. Dwyer

James J. Dwyer is an American politician who represents the 30th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a member of the Woburn Housing Authority from 2000 to 2004 and the Woburn City Council from 2006 to 2009....

 in the 2008 Democratic primary.

Natale was a candidate for the 4th Middlesex district State Senate

Massachusetts Senate

The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the state...

 seat vacated by Robert Havern III

Robert Havern III

Robert A. Havern III is a Massachusetts politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and who represented the Fourth Middlesex District in the Massachusetts State Senate from 1991 to 2007.-Biography:...

 in 2007. During the campaign, Natale got into a physical altercation on the House floor with opponent and fellow Representative Charles A. Murphy

Charles A. Murphy

Charles A. "Charley" Murphy is the current representative of the 21st Middlesex District to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means.-Biography:...

. Natale lost in the Democratic primary to J. James Marzilli, Jr.

J. James Marzilli, Jr.

Joseph James Marzilli, Jr. was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. Marzilli, a Democrat, was elected to the Senate in a special election in December 2007, representing the communities of Arlington, Billerica, Burlington, Lexington and Woburn partway through his ninth term in the Massachusetts...

Since his defeat, Natale has been arrested twice for domestic assault and battery. Natale had previously been arrested in 1988 and charged with assault and battery on a police officer and disturbing the peace. He was found not guilty and later unsuccessfully sued the town of Woburn for alleged injuries he sustained during the incident.