Let this serve as a very stern, public reminder that state Sen. Kip Averitt, R-McGregor, won't have the luxury of having "community" papers sugarcoating his votes, decisions and campaign visits. Nope, Sen. Averitt will have to answer to the New Media for his disgusting vote records. See below.
Young Conservatives of Texas
YCT is a student-run organization with chapters on all major universities in the state, but they have what many political analysts consider the most in-depth legislative analysis of all the organizations.
Averitt, in the same YCT report, scored a 41 in the 80th legislative session report and a 50 in the 79th session.
The YCT focus mainly on economic issues such as taxes and spending.
Heritage Alliance PAC
Formerly the Free PAC, Heritage Alliance is a socially conservative organization that aims to promote pro-life and pro-family policies. Longtime conservative stalwart Richard Ford started the organization several years ago.
In Heritage Alliance’s recent report card on the 80th legislative session, Averitt scored a 72. Those figures are up from the last session, when Heritage Alliance ranked him in the 60s.
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
Michael Quinn Sullivan, a former congressional staffer to Rep. Ron Paul, leads the Texans for Fiscal Responsibility organization, who recently gave Averitt low marks for votes on higher taxes and spending.
Sullivan, formerly of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a free-market think tank in Austin, lumped Austin colleague state Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, in to his “anti-taxpayer league” on his Web site’s blog.
Sullivan has cited Pitts’ role as budget chairman three sessions ago in which the Texas general budget increased 18 percent.
Americans for Prosperity - Texas
Peggy Venable’s Americans for Prosperity group also has a legislative report card, an analysis that tracks economic issues such as taxes, spending and taxpayer-funded lobbying.
AFP-TX scored Averitt with a D.
AFP-TX
Averitt - 41%
Young Conservatives of Texas
Averitt - 72%
HeritageAlliance.com
Averitt - 30%
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
EmpowerTexans.com
Averitt - D
Joey Dauben & Glen Jackson of The Ells County Press contributed to this report
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