Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Maryland LCV Releases State Legislator Ratings on the Environment (Updated)

The Maryland League of Conservation Voters (LCV) has released its 2010 rankings of state legislators on environmental votes, as well as their lifetime records. Here are the lifetime voting percentages for all MoCo legislators, with 100% being the maximum possible score.

Delegate Roger Manno (D-19): 100%
Senator Brian Frosh (D-16): 99%
Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez (D-18): 98%
Delegate Tom Hucker (D-20): 98%
Delegate Heather Mizeur (D-20): 97%
Senator Jamie Raskin (D-20): 97%
Delegate Bill Frick (D-16): 96%
Delegate Karen Montgomery (D-14): 96%
Delegate Bill Bronrott (D-16): 94%
Delegate Al Carr (D-18): 94%
Delegate Anne Kaiser (D-14): 94%
Senator Rich Madaleno (D-18): 94%
Delegate Craig Rice (D-15): 94%
Delegate Henry Heller (D-19): 93%
Senator Mike Lenett (D-19): 93%
Delegate Luiz Simmons (D-17): 93%
Delegate Jeff Waldstreicher (D-18): 93%
Delegate Saqib Ali (D-39): 92%
Delegate Susan Lee (D-16): 92%
Delegate Kirill Reznik (D-39): 92%
Delegate Charles Barkley (D-39): 91%
Delegate Kathleen Dumais (D-15): 91%
Delegate Jim Gilchrist (D-17): 91%
Delegate Herman Taylor (D-14): 90%

Delegate Sheila Hixson (D-20): 88%
Delegate Ben Kramer (D-19): 87%
Delegate Kumar Barve (D-17): 85%
Senator Rob Garagiola (D-15): 84%
Delegate Brian Feldman (D-15): 83%
Senator Jennie Forehand (D-17): 82%
Senator Nancy King (D-39): 82%

Senator Rona Kramer (D-14): 65%

Frosh and Prince George’s County Senator Paul Pinsky (D-22) have the highest lifetime scores of any Senators, with 99% each. Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs (R-34) of Cecil and Harford Counties has the lowest score at 8%. Delegates Elizabeth Bobo (12B) of Howard County and Roger Manno (D-19) of MoCo are the only legislators with 100% lifetime scores. Republican Delegate Warren Miller (9A) of Howard County has the lowest lifetime score of any Delegate at 10%.

Update: The scorecard was jointly developed between LCV and Environment Maryland. The document linked above is Environment Maryland's version of the scorecard. LCV has not publicly released its version yet.