An environmental scorecard for Annapolis lawmakers found that the averages for legislators in the last two years have gone down slightly.
The League of Conservation Voters has issued the report every two years since 1986, and this year they found the average score in the Senate had slipped to 59 percent, and in the House to 67 percent. Republican senators earned their lowest average since the scorecard was created.
Terry Harris, the league?s acting executive director, attributed the decline to “partisan wrangling” that has divided the legislature more sharply. “The selection of votes this year was more difficult,” Harris said.
One of the votes rated on the report card was on the support of the early voting measure that has become controversial. “It makes it easier for our voters to get to the polls,” Harris said.
Thirty-three legislators got a perfect score of 100 percent, all of them Democrats. They include Baltimore City Sens. Joan Carter Conway and Lisa Gladden, and Baltimore County?s Paula Hollinger.
Delegates with perfect scores included Baltimore City?s Peter Hammen and Catherine Pugh, Baltimore County?s Jon Cardin and Dan Morhaim, and Howard County?s Liz Bobo and Frank Turner.
Ten lawmakers got a grade of zero, all Republicans. They included Harford County Sen. Nancy Jacobs; Anne Arundel County Dels. Don Dwyer and Tony McConkey; Carroll County?s Susan Krebs and Nancy Stocksdale, and Howard County?s Gail Bates and Warren Miller.
