For someone who has spent so much time talking about improving performance at schools, Nathan Fletcher should really be looking at improving his own grades. Yesterday, the California Republican Assembly released a scorecard for legislators on a variety of conservative issues.
For the second year in a row, Fletcher received the lowest mark amongst all Republicans statewide. His 56% is an F grade according to this Cal Watchdog article and also indicates his scores have been dropping every year in the Assembly. This is not a one year fluke, but a disturbing trend.
In response, Team Fletcher claims he held the line against higher taxes and while working to defend small businesses. Interestingly however, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) recently gave Fletcher one of the lowest scores among Republican lawmakers for his tax related votes this year.
A low score on the HJTA scorecard should race a red flag for any fiscal conservative looking at supporting Fletcher in his race for Mayor. One hopes that Mr. Fletcher spends some of his campaign war chest on tutors who can educate him on conservative ideas and principles to help him bring his grades up in 2012.
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From Admin– This post originally stated HJTA recently gave Fletcher the lowest score among Republican legislators. That is not the case, as shown by the link provided above by the author. HJTA initially gave Fletcher a C grade, then upped it to a B while apologizing and retracting the error. That information was posted on Rostra. We regret the error and apologize for the inaccurate statement.