FHA Action posts 2019 Legislative Scorecard.

Pat Powers

South Dakota conservative values lobbying group Family Heritage Alliance Action has posted a scorecard on their website on the issues FHA Action took a position on during the Legislative Session. Many Republican legislators found themselves earning 100% ratings for agreeing with the group’s legislative positions.

Democrats? Not so much:

FHA Action 2019 Scorecard Final by Pat Powers on Scribd

The low mark of 28.57% was tied by Democrat Representatives Erin Healy and Jamie Smith, who voted against the organization’s positions on such issues as placing “In God We Trust” in schools, sports betting, and defunding planned parenthood.

22 thoughts on “FHA Action posts 2019 Legislative Scorecard.”

  1. A couple of points:
    1). I thought the position of this web site was that scorecards are not reliable.
    2). This particular scorecard reflects only “social” conservative issues, and does not cover fiscal conservative policy positions.
    3). Stace Nelson was among those who scored 100%.

    2. Steve, cherry-picked scorecards are stupid. If an organization tells members how legislators voted on their issues, that may have merit for the organizations members.

  2. Fair points, Steve, but (IMHO) any metric indicating Jamie Smith and Erin Healy = SD’s most liberal/progressive house members can boast a decent (non-trivial) correlation with reality. I suspect Erin and Jamie would readily agree.

  3. Democrats scored low on a conservative lobbying group’s scorecard? I am shocked.

    1. Exactly. If the communists or Marxists or Boko Haram issued me a scorecard, I certainly hope I’d score below 25. If I scored zero I’d be proud. A sub-30 FHA score implies that a SD legislator is quite liberal (by local standards), i.e. more liberal than the typical SD voter. For comparison, Senator Nesiba scored 50. My sense is that Jamie and Erin are proud progressives. I suspect they’ll brag about their low FHA scores.

    2. Healy and Smith, move one to Venezuela or Cuba where socialism is already in practice and see how you like it.

      1. You must have failed Government classes. Germany, Norway and Sweden are more Democratic Socialistic states.

  5. How does a legislator’s missed vote affect their percentage rating? I see some legislators having blank entries on what appear to be floor votes (not committee votes) and still getting 100% ratings. Maybe I’m missing something….

      1. Stormin’ Norman wastes more time making leather “crafts” than building relationships with legislators on the other side of the aisle. A scorecard targeting Dems says more about the inefficacy of FHA to lobby than it does of those it’s critiquing.

        1. Mike Hamburger – Ok tough guy. Norman is a good lobbyist and a good strategist.

          So first of all – no one knows what you’re talking about. Second, this scorecard doesn’t “target dems.”

          I would love to see you live by your own standard and try to convert far left liberal politicians in 40 days. Please, by all means, go and try. The reality is that this is a long term battle, and Norman Woods is doing his part to win the battle. He’s doing an effective job.

          What good does it do you to just throw stones?

  6. 99.9% of all Legislators stick their finger up in the public approval windage area and vote accordingly. Only one big guy really votes according to State and Federal Constitutional values never caring about poll quantifiers.

    OK I’m still stuck on April Fools Day. 👋 Sarcasm….

  7. Ed Randazzo blocked me and quickly took down my posts on his fb page. lol. Can’t handle the truth on industrial hemp and my post on how congress voted for big Pharma. Go figure.

    1. You were blocked on my personal Facebook page which has nothing to do with FHA. You were blocked and will remain so because you are abusive and traffic in personal attacks that have no place in debate.

      FHA did not take a stand on the hemp issue. My comments and argument were mine, and mine alone.

      Should you wish to apologize for your rude and abusive comments, call me.

  8. Republican primary voters should take note of the low scores of too many Republicans.

  10. Why do you keep taking down my posts Pat? I want Ed to post my comments for everybody to see.

  11. Pat,

    To be clear, I do not oppose this or any other scorecard. I believe anything that helps inform citizens on how their legislative representatives voted is good. Do those who put out scorecards have an agenda? To be intellectually honest… they all do.

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