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:

    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.
  Once again, two House freshmen tied in the 2nd spot; along with Rep. Kevin West of the OKC metro delegation. The freshmen were rural lawmakers from eastern Oklahoma, David Hardin, and David Smith.
  Former Democrat, Johnny Tadlock was one of four Republicans tied for the 4th spot, along with Jim Olsen, Sean Roberts, & Judd Strom. Olsen & Strom are in their first 2-year term.  Tadlock completed his 3rd term, Roberts finished his 5th term.
  
  Unlike last year's inaugural index, the two major parties are not as clearly separated. Democrat Merleyn Bell scored 0, but that still put her as high or higher than 26 Republicans. Dell Kerbs was the lowest scoring Republican with a -40, which is worse that the worst Democrat in the 2019 index. Last year's average score was +28.8, but this year's score is a pathetic +6.8, which isn't small govt. creed.

  THE RIED REPORT Institute research creates a profile of each legislator’s individual voting record for bills dealing with business, industry, job creation and economic growth issues deemed important by the private sector. Each legislator is graded with respect to his or her position on each bill. The RIED Report is available at riedreport.com.

RIED’s research identifies and evaluates the legislative issues that support superior jobs and economic growth for Oklahoma. LARRY NICHOLS, CHAIRMAN EMERITUS & FOUNDER Devon Energy Corporation

RIED addresses the public policy issues in Oklahoma that promote ease of doing business, job creation. CLAYTON I. BENNETT, CHAIRMAN Dorchester Capital
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  RIED’s profile of each legislator’s support for business and economic growth issues allows Oklahoma to shape an economy that meets our need for a quality future. GREG LOVE, PRESIDENT Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores

  Learn how your state legislators are voting at the Oklahoma Capitol on issues related to the principles of limited government, free markets, individual initiative, and personal responsibility. The scorecard continued updating throughout the 2020 legislative session as legislators continued casting votes on bills. Each legislator’s score is out of of 100 possible percentage points.
  Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Inc. (“OCPA”) reviews all bills eligible for consideration by the Oklahoma Legislature in the legislative session. OCPA then, based on its charitable mission, selects bills for inclusion on the scorecard watch list. The watch list is publicly released at the start of session and updated as session progresses. The watch list is also sent to all legislators. OCPA selects bills from the watch list and scores legislators based on their votes on those bills and how the bills impact Oklahoma citizens. Scoring is not based on political affiliation but is based solely on a legislator’s votes on particular public policy issues.

By Constitution Staff
  View the most recent Senate conservative index or the last House conservative index.
  The Oklahoma Constitution presents the 42nd annual Oklahoma Conservative Index rating our state legislators. Members of each house of the Oklahoma Legislature were rated on ten key votes. A favorable vote on these issues represents a belief in conservative principles.
  After taking suggestions from conservative leaders, the staff of the Oklahoma Constitution submitted suggested bills to a vote of the membership of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee (OCPAC) to determine the ten key votes. The legislators were rated based on their votes on bills which included such issues as preserving secure elections, protecting privacy, protecting the right to keep and bear arms, obstructing overbearing government regulations, against subsidies, and protecting life.    Senate - House

  ​Amazingly enough this was a decent year for conservatives in Oklahoma. There was only one really large major tax increase, the SHOPP Medicaid Expansion. There were a lot of omnibus bills with all sorts of things that had both good and bad in them and created a quandary as far as saying if they were good or bad. But the virus shortened the session and kept the amount of stupidity down to a dull roar.
  As a result, or perhaps as a result of a decade of hammering in the idiots, the scores in the 2020 Trump Index were a bit higher than usual. There were some surprises like seeing Kevin McDugle pander vote enough that he had a decent score, or only one Democrat scoring high enough to make the top fifteen conservatives in the House.
  Kevin West, Tommy Hardin, Tom Gann, and Denise Crosswhite Hader all tied for the top score at 90 points out of 100 possible points. Coming in at 80 points were Sean Roberts, Jim Olsen, David Smith, and Kevin McDugle. Steagall, Taylor, O'Donnell all tied at 70 points. Then ten more, packed with freshmen, came in at 60 points. Keep in mind that a Republican from a Democrat heavy district has always needed to stay around 60 points to remain in office due to rural concerns like subsidizing hospitals to keep them afloat.