Release the Scorecards!

Unshackle Upstate is really getting into informing the public about our representatives in Albany. They have declared November 2nd as "Judgment Day", and they want the voting citizens to hold their elected officials accountable for change in our state, especially when it comes to job creation and helping our economy grow.

They've created "scorecards" as part of their "Judgment Day" campaign. From their website: "The Scorecard will be frequently updated to provide New Yorkers with information on how each of the 212 legislators vote on various pro-taxpayer and job creator legislation, as well as on this year's state budget."

Awesome!

Here is the link to the Senator list.

Here is the link to the Assembly list.

Morelle - his scorecard doesn't look so good so far - 45 out of 100 points:



Alesi - his scorecard isn't so bad, 73 out of 100 points:
Correction listed in D&C article: James Alesi, R-Perinton: 80 points; ranked 13th among 59 senators.



And because I was scolded for not including Robach and Reilich in another blog about politicians....I will include them on here for you, even though they don't represent Irondequoit at all.

Reilich - his scorecard looks pretty good, 85 out of 100 points:


Robach - his scorecard is better than Morelle's but, still pretty bad at 52 out of 100 points:
Correction listed in D&C article: Joseph Robach, R-Greece: 58 points; ranked 23rd.


And, last but not least, the King and Queen of anti-taxpayer, anti-job creation, anti-business....David Gantt and Susan John (even though she "retired" recently) with 2 out of 100 points and 1 out of 100 points, respectively - Boooooooo!:





The question of the day is: Will the voters remember in November?

A very good opinion piece on "Unshackle Upstate" is on a blog that I read called "Mustard Street". They make a few connections that I found insightful. I encourage you to read it. Unshackling Nothing--Part 1 and Part 2.

A snippet from their blog that I found very interesting:

"2. Local Legislators

In particular, we'll be interested to see how Unshackle Upstate grades state legislators from the Rochester area. Assemblyman and Monroe County Democratic Chairman Joe Morelle appears to have a cozy relationship with Unshackle and the RBA, especially with Sandra Parker. Brian Sampson, just before his appointment as Executive Director of Unshackle, was about to become the Democratic nominee for Town Board in Irondequoit, where Morelle, more than anywhere else, holds sway. We may safely presume a compatible political relationship between them.

Nearly all of Morelle's major donors, other than the insurance industry (Morelle Chairs the Assembly's Insurance Committee) are political action committees of unions -- the same unions implacably opposed to every reform proposed by Unshackle Upstate.

The Rochester business community should not let the RBA and Unshackle give a free pass to Morelle or his similarly situated colleagues. (This applies to a lot of Republican State Senators, too). In Morelle's case, the fig leaf of voting against last year's state budget, and this year's, neither expiates nor excuses an entire career as Assemblyman supporting the union agenda, the bloated state budgets, and the excessive spending and taxation that have brought the state to near-bankruptcy today.

If Unshackle Upstate has any credibility, Joe Morelle will get an F on his report card and Unshackle will not endorse him for re-election."

Not only that, but a recent article in the D&C reports that Unshackle Upstate had many errors in their recent "scorecards", and the corrections were made. According to the article, Alesi's staff noticed the error on his scorecard, and Unshackle Upstate said it was a data entry error, and "The errors were generally minor. No score changed by more than 8 points on a 100-point scale, Unshackle Upstate officials said. No area politician saw his or her ranking rise or fall by more than three places, records show."

"Out of more than 10,000 data points, there were roughly 20 data entry errors, Sampson said. Still, he said, "it is an integrity issue for us" to disclose the mistakes."

Here's the article:



Corrections are listed in the article, and I put the corrections (if there were any) next to the ones on this blog that I listed.