Heritage Alliance Adds Report Card
August 9th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
The conservative Heritage Alliance, an organization whose “goal is to identify 1 percent of the citizens in each legislative district who support traditional values” and provide them with services like “daily email reminders to pray for key leaders,” has released their report cards for the session. In other words, it sounds like a report card for folks who self-identify as the conservative elite.
Sixteen legislators made the grade, voting with Heritage’s recommendations 90 percent of the time or better on dozens of bills they tracked. The lawmakers, all from the House, will be honored at Heritage’s 2007 Freedom Texas Celebration, scheduled for October in Dallas. The list of honorees, all Republicans, reads like a Who’s Who of members distinguished by their wingnuttery this session: Jodie Laubenberg, Linda Harper-Brown, Debbie Riddle, Charlie Howard, Wayne Christian, and so on.
Down at the very bottom of the list, with scorses between 15-17 percent, were usual suspects Lon Burnam and Jessica Farrar, both Democratic Reps. On the whole the Senate had a much smaller range of scores, with Republican Robert Nichols topping out at 79 percent and Democrat Eliot Shapleigh bringing up the rear at 40.
The full list of scores is here. The grading criteria is linked on that page, but it boils down to: limited government, free enterprise, (fewer) taxes, and traditional values.
Our original post with other 80th Session scorecards has also been updated.
