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. |
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