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Friday, November 18, 2011

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Legislative Report card

Our report card is designed to help Californians gauge how their state representatives are actually performing on taxpayer-related issues.
The 2011 scores stem from 22 bills. This year we double-weighted two bills: ABX1 40 and Assembly Constitutional Amendment 6, as they represented a tax increase and a threat to Proposition 13 and the initiative process, respectively. Also for the first time, we did not give a score to a legislator. Since March, State Assemblyman Jeff Gorell (R-Ventura) has been serving our country overseas in Afghanistan and was unable to vote on many legislative bills.
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