State Conservatives: Can’t All Legislators Be Like Fitzpatrick?
Long Island Republican Assemblyman Michael Fitzpatrick scored the highest grade today from the state Conservative Party’s ratings for the 2008 legislative session.
“If the other 211 Members of the Legislature voted as Assemblyman Fitzpatrick votes, the State would be in much better financial shape,†party Chairman Michael Long said.
The Conservative Party used 20 bills as guides as to whether legislators voted along conservative lines.
In all, the Republican-controlled Senate had a 41 percent rating, while the Democratic-controlled Assembly had a 25 percent rating.
The only bill where Fitzpatrick, above, strayed from the party was Democratic Assemblyman Richard Brodsky’s bill that expands the list of public employees eligible for breast cancer and prostate cancer screening paid days-off.
Conservatives said “that public employees already have extremely generous allotments of personal time to use for these important screenings.”
Five Republican senators got the party’s highest rating: Steve Saland of Poughkeepsie, Owen Johnson of Long Island, John DeFrancisco of Syracuse, Serf Maltese of Queens and Hugh Farley of the Albany area.
You can view the full list here.
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