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    2012-2013 ACU Michigan Legislature Ratings


    By Conservative First, Section News
    Posted on Sun Oct 06, 2013 at 12:22:58 AM EST
    Tags: American Conservative Union, ACU, state senate, state house (all tags)

    The American Conservative Union has long been the premier organization rating members of Congress on how conservative their voting records are.  Recently, ACU began rating state legislators on their voting records, and it just released its second ratings of the Michigan state legislature.

    ACU State Ratings 2013--MI

    Their PDF is hard to read, so I will summarize the relevant information here.

    ACU rated 20 house votes and 16 senate votes from 2012 and 2013.  Their timing is curious, since this overlaps distinct legislative sessions.  This isn't a big deal for the state senate, which wasn't up for election in 2012, but the composition of the state house changed significantly.  Thus some state reps are rated only for 2012 (12 votes) or 2013 (8 votes)  Fourteen of the bills are the same for both halves of the legislature. The most common topics for the state house votes were taxes (4 votes), gun rights and hunting (4), and education (3).  The most common topic for the state senate votes was gun rights and hunting (5 votes).

    ACU Michigan state senate ratings 2012/2013:

    100%: Brandenberg, Hune
    93-94%: Colbeck, Green, Robertson
    88%: Meekhof, Moolenaar, Pavlov, Schuitmaker
    81%: Booher, Hildenbrand, Jansen, Pappageorge, Proos, Rocca
    75-77%: Caswell, Emmons, Jones, Kowall, Marleau, Richardville, Walker
    69%: Hansen, Kahn, Nofs
    56%: Casperson
    30%: Gleason
    13%: Andersen, Bieda, Hunter
    6%: Gregory, Hood, Hopgood, Johnson, Smith, Whitmer, Young
    0%: Warren

    (2 comments, 1058 words in story) Full Story

    2012 ACU Michigan Legislature Ratings


    By Conservative First, Section News
    Posted on Wed Aug 29, 2012 at 03:03:36 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan legislature, American Conservative Union, Dave Agema, Joe Hune, Roy Schmidt (all tags)

    The American Conservative Union has long been the premier organization rating members of Congress on how conservative their voting records are.  Last year, ACU began rating state legislators on their voting records, and it recently released its first ratings of the Michigan state legislature.

    http://conservative.org/ratingsarchive/stateratings/2012/MIStateLegislativeRatings.pdf

    ACU rated 17 house votes and 18 senate votes from 2012.  Many of the bills are the same for both halves of the legislature.  Many of the bills are closely related to unions and education.

    Here are some notes on the results.

    (5 comments, 393 words in story) Full Story

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