Tripartisan Breakdown of the Americans For Prosperity 2017 Scorecard

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A Tripartisan Breakdown of the Americans For Prosperity New Hampshire 2017 Legislative Score Card

NH House:
12 bills dealing with subjects such as reducing the cost of health insurance and improving the quality of education

Tripartisan breakdown
100% Scores
Republicans – 49 (Not voting wasn’t counted against the legislators so even though Speaker Jasper only voted once, he had a 100% score as he voted to increase worker freedom)
Libertarians – 2
Democrat – 0

Average Score
Republican – Probably around what the Libertarians got
Libertarian – 77%
Democrat – Very low

Lowest Scores
Republicans – Skylar Boutin (college student that might actually be a Democrat?) and Mariellen J. MacKay (partly due to her voting like an anti-freedom Democrat before she switched to the Republican Party) received 33%
Libertarian – Joseph Stallcop received 30% (mostly due to him voting like an anti-freedom Democrat before he switched to the Libertarian Party)
Democrats – Travis Bennett, Michael D. Cahill, Edith M. DesMarais, Paul J. Henle, and David Woolpert received 0%

Note: 5 Democrats did as well as or better than the lowest scoring Republicans and Libertarian.

NH Senate:
11 bills dealing with subjects such as protecting free speech and improving the quality of education

Bipartisan breakdown
100% Scores
Republicans – 2 (John Reagan and Andy Sanborn <- Sen. Sanborn endorsed Ron Paul and Rand Paul and now running for Congress )
Democrat – 0

Average Score
Republican – 88%
Democrat – 0%

Lowest Scores
Republicans – Sharon M. Carson and Daniel E. Innis received 73%
Democrats – All 9 received 0%

Note: House politicians from all three parties were to be able to have independent vote. Did Senate Democrats even have an independent thought among them?

This post in no way represents AFP or AFP-NH. See full results from their NH scorecard here.

 

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AFP put up a page about the Score Card with an explanation and link to it. https://americansforprosperity.org/new-hampshire-legislative-score-card-2017/

New Hampshire Legislative Score Card (2017)
Jul 21, 2017 by AFP

DEAR NEW HAMPSHIRE TAXPAYER

Americans For Prosperity-New Hampshire is pleased to present our 2017 Legislative Score Card.

AFP-NH hopes that this Score Card will aid you in your efforts to remain well informed regarding some of the key legislative activity that took place in Concord over this past year and its impact on expanding government and economic growth.

AFP-NH does not score every vote. Rather the focus of this Score Card is to consider the most important votes cast in a number of key areas that impact a free market, such as taxes, spending, health care, education choice, worker freedom, regulation, free speech, property rights and ending cronyism. This year, the Legislature had the opportunity to vote on important issues in these areas, such as making New Hampshire a Right to Work state and lowering business taxes to make the state more competitive.

Within this Score Card you will find these votes and many others that are essential to ensuring free markets, entrepreneurship and opportunity. We hope this helps you see a clear picture of how legislators performed in these important areas.

In addition to information on how your state legislators voted on important pieces of legislation, you will find their contact information included in this Score Card. AFP-NH hopes you will use it to reach out to your State Senator and State Representatives and encourage them to support free market policies that advance economic freedom.

Sincerely,

Greg Moore

Greg Moore
State Director
Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire

https://americansforprosperity.org/new-hampshire-legislative-score-card-2017/