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To: Jim S who wrote (4737)	11/14/2006 3:11:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10087

Ethics (25 points) - Maybe ethics should amount to a larger percentage of the score. At least if there is an objective way to rate it. Its probably more important than meeting attendance%, or partisan peer ratings. I'm not sure what you mean by "lobbyist contributions". Could you expand on that and how it would apply. Job Performance(30 points) "-Bills Sponsored -Legislation introduced" Introducing legislation can be negative instead of positive, and making it an important enforced rating would lead to people creating a flurry of unimportant legislation just to score high on this measure. Attendance at committee meetings and voting percentage, seems straight forward. Except the question about whether voting "present" would count. Maybe it should. I don't want to push people to vote on issues that they don't understand enough to cast an educated vote, or on issues about which they are conflicted. OTOH voting present all of the time means they aren't doing much. Peer Ratings (Own Party) (15 points) - If someone faces being not allowed to run again, then his party is likely to across the board give him the maximum rating. --- That's in terms of addressing specific things and trying to make it work. My larger concern is that political criteria are IMO more important. If someone votes the way I want them to I care more about that then most of the other criteria (the only possible exception being ethics). Of course political criteria get measured by the actual elections, so its not like they are not considered at all, or are replaced by this system. --- If such a rating system existed, it could have an effect even if it isn't tied to term limits. Someone scoring low would give a club to his opponents to use against him next election.