Legislative Scorecards
NMTA does not itself produce a legislative scorecard. There are several entities which grade legislators.
Our favorite is New Mexico Prosperity Project. The Prosperity Project describes itself as follows:
The New Mexico Prosperity Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit collaborative effort of the state's business community to provide up-to-date, easily accessible information to New Mexico businesses and their employees about federal, state, and local government activities that have an effect on the state's economic growth and business climate. The information available will enable New Mexico citizens to promptly and easily contact their elected representatives and to make informed choices about whom to support in elections.
You can get to their website by clicking here:
http://www.newmexicoprosperity.org
An alternative way to seek to rank legislators is to do an inverse ranking. That is, one could use in reverse the legislative ranking by an organization which appears to despise free markets, to promote socialism, to promote the concentration of power in elites, to encourage the diminishment of the state‘s wealth, to promote an irrational regulatory environment, to support increased taxation, to applaud the diminishment of property rights, to devalue human life while valuing animal and/or plant life, to support the emotional over the rational and, in general, which appears to promote the diminution of traditional American liberties. The orientation of most environmental organizations would meet these qualifications. Fortunately, several have come together to rank legislators as the League of Conservation Voters. We use their rankings in reverse. You can get to their website by clicking here:
Above we suggest that one could use in reverse the legislative ranking by many environmental organizations because they appear “to despise free markets, to promote socialism, to promote the concentration of power in elites,” and so forth. Doubt this? Over time we will cover each of these statements on our “Editorial” page, and there will offer you evidence as to the accuracy of our statements. Follow our editorial comments.