State Sen. Mike Michot, R-Lafayette, was one of only three Acadiana-delegation lawmakers to earn an F on the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce’s annual Legislative Scorecard released Monday. Michot’s numerical grade, a 60, was the lowest among the six area senators. The grade will likely raise some eyebrows in Lafayette as the mild-mannered and well-liked moderate Republican is generally considered a business-friendly legislator and is the owner of a Lafayette business, Premier Medical Equipment. GLCC also gave its lowest mark to state Reps. Mickey Guillory, D-Eunice, and John Guinn, R-Jennings; both received a 64.
The chamber awarded a grade of 100-A to three state representatives: Taylor Barras, D-New Iberia, Simone Champagne, R-Jeanerette, and Nancy Landry, R-Lafayette. No state senators earned an A on the scorecard. Sen. Elbert Guillory, D-Opelousas, fared the best with an 80, which by the grading scale of the Lafayette Parish School System is a high C.
The chamber bases its scorecard on solons’ votes for or against legislation it considers crucial to the Acadiana business community, among them school reform measures, identification requirements for non-resident contractors and the Alternative Fuel Revolving Loan Fund.
In a press release announcing the scorecard, the chamber says:
Many of the issues that impact the business community are decided in the halls of government. Therefore, it is critical that the Chamber advocate for its members in the governmental arena and play an active role in building an environment conducive to economic growth. The business advocacy process involves the Chamber taking positions on legislation, communicating those positions to elected officials and then holding those officials accountable.
One component of the public policy program is a scorecard which tracks the voting record of individual legislators on specific, pre-announced pieces of legislation. The scorecard is a valuable tool for evaluating legislators’ performance on business-centric issues and is a guide to acknowledging votes favorable to the Chamber. Likewise, it is a process by which we can voice concern over votes considered anti-business.
By early afternoon Monday the chamber had not yet posted the scorecard to its website, but will presumably do so soon.
... written by Lafayette , January 10, 2011 - 11:36 pm
"The chamber bases its scorecard on solons’ votes for or against legislation it considers crucial to the Acadiana business community"
Lies. The chamber bases it's scorecard on the Republican Neo-Conservative Agenda, which of course is to try and move as much money as possible from the middle class and put it into the pockets of those who don't need it.
Economic Slavery is the name of the game and the COC is all for it.
... written by The Original Northsidian , January 11, 2011 - 01:01 am
Mikie, that's why you should stop sucking up to the chamber elite. They don't appreciate anything you do unless it benefits them. When are you going to learn your lesson? It's just like their energy division that was taken out of mothballs after the B.P. oil spill. It should have never been disbanded in the first place. If they can't have it their way they cry to mommy!!!! And by the way, we in the highlands don't really give a rats a$$ what the chamber says anyway!!!!!!!!
... written by Southsider , January 11, 2011 - 09:26 pm
Maybe Mike couldn't be bought by the PAC formed by the Chamber?
... written by realitychecks , January 12, 2011 - 05:42 pm
And the Chamber gets an F for it's failure to have any concern for the small business owner.
... written by whoa , January 12, 2011 - 09:35 pm
This is interesting because Michot is HUGE allies with chamber lackeys Bill Fenstermaker, Don Briggs, Clay Allen and Robert Daigle.
... written by Cajun Yodeler , January 13, 2011 - 06:18 pm
Mike, you can take a make up test next Tuesday. If that does not work, there is always the GED.
... written by Ergo , January 13, 2011 - 09:37 pm
It might be worth considering that the Senator operates at such a high level that he has the opportunity to make deals and seise opportunities with long time consequences for Acadiana;that is how politics works...so a seemingly not for business vote might be traded for one that can be leveraged into a greater opporunity later own.Mary Landry got an A but Mary Landry is a dishrag of a legislator with whom noone of any consequence in Baton Rouge deals with.She can afford to vote the way the Chamber to vote because she has no political capital to either weild, leverage or horse trade with. She really only seems to use her office as way of opening doors for her private fund raising business which I believed was deemed ethical by her peers, but as we all know in Louisiana, ethical is not in and of itseld synonymous with right. Mike has dione more for Acadiana than anyone in his position has done in a long time.The Chambers pollyanna "rating" system allows little understanding of the nuanced manner in which things get done at the state level.
... written by Buzzybee , January 14, 2011 - 12:53 am
Ergo- Word Up!
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , January 14, 2011 - 04:28 am
The CC's scorecard should grade the selfish, greedy, unscrupled, piece of the pie sharing cronys of the Parish Administration, "fenstermaker, briggs, allen, and daigle, and let us add durel, the greenambulanceman, spanky ruffles, and for good measure and to insure they all mix well with the rotten eggs, councilman patin, bellard, morrison, and for the piece d` resistant jail time, monolithic, unrepentant, habitual scam-king, the mastercon-man, Brandon Shelvin, who is always saved by durel and the OUT-TO-LIQUID-LUNCH DA, HARSON. How bout these apples, who in the hell wiped your sticky hands and qualified you rats to be pseudo-critics of Mike Michot, a man who none of you could carry his fng water pail, and if not for the gang-up methods of fith graders, you mofo's could'nt stand up AND BE COUNTED WHEN THE CALL FOR MEN WAS CALLED, so crawl back in your holes and continue your inbreeding, for it will take a greater horde of low-life's than your number, to bring down Mike Michot, he is a son of this city and comes from a family who gave more to this community than all of you could not take away fom him, with your higher than thou attitude, You clowns, thats right "Clowns, neither of you would make a pimple on a man ass. Any of you would give a nut to have walked in Mike's shoes.
... written by Me , January 14, 2011 - 11:39 am
Taylor Barras is no surprise. He was elected with chamber money and is entrenched in the chamber. Can anyone say what Barras has done during his tenure as representative other than vote for LABI 100% of the time?
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , January 15, 2011 - 08:28 pm
These Laf. Chamber couillions would not last a New York second in a progressive city such as Houston. Hell, these Chamber "C types would be laughed out of Baton Rouge or any other city with true leaders and an intelligent populace. Naw Man, I can't get over the audacity of a few ding-a-ling neer-do-well chumps sitting on their barstool on their tuesday night out on the town, patting themselves on the back, thinking they can compare their accomplishments with a straight-up guy like Mike Michot, these clowns whose only claim to fame, is their hand in every till of progress in the city, to actually act as if they've grown a set, and attempt to belittle Mike Michot. Hell that day will never be here, you third-rate wanna-a-be-somebodys.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , January 16, 2011 - 04:49 am
That is the true ya-ya of the Chamber of Commerce, Mike did'nt bend over like the Chamber Members, and roll in the muck with the out-for-their-selfs-bunch. a Michot has to much class to lick boots and to stand in line for the tid-bits the chamber members receive from the Administration, Set up your Tripod Festermaker, you got a Gig coming for selling out Mike.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , January 27, 2011 - 03:42 am
The one single solitary fine thing about life is that everyone dies.
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Lies. The chamber bases it's scorecard on the Republican Neo-Conservative Agenda, which of course is to try and move as much money as possible from the middle class and put it into the pockets of those who don't need it.
Economic Slavery is the name of the game and the COC is all for it.