The Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) Foundation’s Center for Legislative Accountability released a legislative scorecard Tuesday rating the conservative voting record of members of the 131st Maine State Legislature.
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The conservative organization’s ratings are based on an evaluation of how Maine lawmakers voted on certain bills during the Legislature’s first session, and whether their votes align with the organization’s vision of conservatism.
According to CPAC:
“The bills featured in CPAC’s 2023 Ratings of Maine expanded handouts for electric vehicles, increased workplace mandates, and increased welfare spending.
These issues, coupled with our mission to protect life, liberty, property and upholding the American family, created the basis by which the CPAC Foundation rated the Maine legislature.”
Among the bills from the Legislature’s 2023 session that were analyzed in the scorecard were LD 1619 — Gov. Janet Mills’ late-term abortion bill — and LD 535, which allows minors to receive hormone replacement therapy without parental consent.
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“Maine voters should be asking themselves, ‘When will this extremism be enough?’” CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp said Tuesday.
“Maine’s Democrat legislators passed laws that allow minors to receive radical gender care without parental consent, gave health care to illegal immigrants, and that prevents employers from monitoring their own workplace,” Schlapp said.
The scorecard found that Maine’s Democratic legislators averaged a conservative rating of about 1 percent, while Republicans averaged 91 percent in the Senate and 93 percent in the House.
The low conservative rating of Maine’s Democratic lawmakers the conservative group attributed to bills during the first legislative session that pushed “extremely progressive policies, including bills that incentivize illegal immigration, diminish parental rights, and potentially transform the government into a weapon against conservatives itself through lawfare.”
Five Republican Maine State Senators achieved a “perfect 100%” conservative voting record rating from CPAC: Sens. Bradlee Farrin of Somerset, Stacey Guerin of Penobscot, Matthew Harrington of York, Peter Lyford of Penobscot, and Jeffrey Timberlake of Androscoggin.
Eighteen Republican State Representatives also achieved a 100% conservative rating, including Rep. Mike Soboleski of Phillips, who is currently running to challenge Democratic Congressman Jared Golden in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District this November.
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The lowest rated Republican State Senator was Sen. Richard Bennet of Oxford (58%), while Rep. David Boyer of Poland received the lowest conservative rating (79%) among the House Republicans.
The Democratic lawmakers with the highest conservative voting record ratings during the first legislative session were Sen. Joe Baldacci of Penobscot (11%) and Rep. Anne-Marie Mastraccio of Sanford (21%).
Read CPAC’s full legislative scorecard for Maine lawmakers here.
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Richard Bennett is not a conservative. He is a RINO.
All I know is that Trump is the winner!!!!
Trump 2024
Vote Republican-Save America
Conner, you should keep practicing saying President Trump is the winner, as I am sure that it will be incredibly difficult for you to say when your jest becomes truth😁
I kid you not about laughing at your post, they are hilarious….is this your stand up monologue for your Joseph Gobbles routine?
Yeah baby Trump 2024
The trouble with Maine politics is liberals from out of state are moving to Maine and running for office. They move here because of the low crime rate, lowest gun related crimes in the nation, etc. etc. They then want to make laws here they had in the sh*t hole. states they moved from.
I agree Boxcar.
Also, they love the illegals.
They’ll try to pass a law allowing them to vote.
Although it’s pretty easy right now for them to illegally vote what with the lax registration laws.
I could have guessed at RTR (full-term abortion advocate) and Laurie Osher (sexual mutilation for children proponent) scoring 0%. Interestingly, Mana Abdi and Deqa Dhalac also posted ratings of 0%. Weren’t we told ad nauseam by Left-wing apologists for Islam that Sharia-compliant Muslim immigrants shared our values?
It’s best to just ignore the soy boy liberal troll Connor. He will eventually get tired of re-reading his posts.
Based on a handful of votes. A good Legislator does more than sit in his/her seat and push the right button. At least one on that list has taken money from the current Administration. Others have become so full of themselves it’s hard to be around them. We should ask what have they done outside of getting re-elected to further the cause of Freedom?