I think they’re assuming it has integrity in the first place. Citizens for Liberty skips the part about giving chairman’s wife highest score.

Pat Powers

The Rapid City Journal received a press release from the Citizens for Liberty group over it’s cherry-picked scorecard that we mocked yesterday for having a participation score lower than most of the people they’ve score.

And the Journal quickly pulled the wings off of the scorecard for other reasons:

Two of the state’s 105 legislators received scores of 100 percent. They are Sen. Stace Nelson, R-Fulton, and Rep. Julie Frye-Mueller, R-Rapid City.

Frye-Mueller is married to the president of Citizens for Liberty, Mike Mueller, which was not disclosed on the scorecard or in a news release about it.

Tonchi Weaver, who lobbies for Citizens for Liberty and serves as its scorecard project director, said Tuesday in a Journal interview that she does not think the marital status of Frye-Mueller and Mueller compromises the integrity of the scorecard.

Read that here.

5 thoughts on “I think they’re assuming it has integrity in the first place. Citizens for Liberty skips the part about giving chairman’s wife highest score.”

  2. Can we get real about Rep. Frye-Mueller? Fuunny how her husband’s organization rates her the #1 conservative legislator, even though she was 0/10 in passing bills.

    According to the state website she sponsored 10 bills. The only two that passed were hoghoused by other legislators. In essence, not a single bill she introduced was passed – unless you count the two that were hoghoused by other legislators. How can she be #1 when nothing she introduced passed.

  3. Ms. Mueller is widely considered the least effective woman in the legislatures. Only Mr. Nelson is worse.

  4. Didn’t Mueller vote for a new tax on vape pens and sent the tax bill to the floor? How is that conservative?!?!

  5. And let’s not forget that Rep. Frye-Mueller’s husband, Michael Mueller was slaughtered in his attempt to be re-elected as a Director on the West Dakota Water Board. The people finally had their fill when he voted to spend thousands of TAXPAYERS’ dollars to hire an attorney to appeal a judgement against his personal friend who’d been found guilty of a minor criminal offense.

    This is the behavior of the President of this scorecard group; they’re just fine with that kind of “conservative” spending of tax dollars? The Citizens for Liberty group DEFINES hypocrisy and public deceit.

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