Sen. Kip Averitt, R-McGregor, who replaced the more-conservative Jane Nelson in the last redistricting, scored a low 40% conservative ranking in a report card recently issued.
The Texas Eagle Forum is pretty accurate in measuring conservatives in both the House and Senate, but this should not surprise anyone at all; when Averitt, who defeated the very-conservative Ed Harrison in the 2002 state senate primary, he was a state representative; Averitt scored in the 30s and 40s in virtually all conservative report cards. This is our state senator, and it’s disgusting. Someone should battle him in the primary in four years.
Or someone should mount a serious Democratic candidacy against him and hope that population trends push a Libertarian to take away Averitt's votes. The Democrats don't run candidates against him anymore because he votes damn-near in the Royce West genre.
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