This is a heads-up…boy July 4th is coming quickly.
Those of you who have been reading this site regularly for the last year or so – or those of you who may have stumbled across because of a mention someplace else – may recall that last year I embarked on the monoblogue Accountability Project. In my original rendition, each of the 188 members of our General Assembly was ranked and graded on votes they took over the 2007 and 2008 sessions, including the Special Session in 2007. Obviously this year I add the votes for 2009.
Last year I missed my self-imposed deadline of having the Accountability Project done on July 4th; instead I was a couple days behind. The good news is that I finished the hard part this weekend, compiling a total of 65 votes by the General Assembly (33 in the House of Delegates, 32 in the Maryland Senate) and retallying the term totals to reflect 2009’s votes. So I only need to do the writeup for the page this week and it should go as scheduled on July 4th at noon – just after the Salisbury Tea Party wraps up.
On the whole, I was quite disappointed with the session this year. A lot of those who had really good records slipped a little bit while I didn’t get many pleasant surprises on the Democratic side. There were no “perfect” members of the General Assembly – the best had all but two votes “correct”.
On July 4th I’ll reveal who they were.
This is going to be good.