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The 2020 Senate Freedom Index is now published, to compare the lawmakers' commitment to restoring and protecting individual liberties in their powers to create and rescind laws.
This year a pair of freshmen who are also former military officers, are tied for the top spot in the senate. Adam Pugh & Joe Newhouse both voted to restore & protect citizen freedoms in 9 of 10 floor votes. They also gained bonus points for authoring bills the Sooner Politics selection committee deemed essential and/or scored in the index. The young Republicans from OKC & Tulsa metro districts, led all scores with a +85, on a spectrum of 100 to +100. A person scoring a zero on this index is deemed to vote against freedom in half the scored floor votes. A score of +50 on this index is equivalent to a +75 on many other indices that do not issue negative index scores. 8 Republicans were close behind with scores of 80. they were:
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Joe Newhouse & Adam Pugh led all Senate Scores
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The top 10 senators are a balanced mix of new members and retiring veterans. This was Stanislawski's last session in the legislature, as the constitutional term limits does not allow another term once a member accrues 12 years of elective office.
Unlike last year's inaugural index, the two major parties are not as clearly separated. Democrat Senator JJ Dossett of Owasso was the only senate Democrat to score above 0 in his session floor voting. The other 8 Democrats scored between -20 to -60. The average Senate score was 34.4, compared to the 2020 House composite score of 6.8. This year's index was a particular challenge, due to the many combined bills which resulted from the suspended April session dates, as Oklahoma was in a declared health emergency. 4 of the 10 scored bills were unique to the Senate. the House also had 4 unique floor votes scored on bills which did not get a floor vote in the full senate. |
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