Great Resource: HAVA link

[k j]

Please, everyone check out this site and pass it along. Well worth the 10 seconds it will take to calculate your Senators and Congresspeople's IAVA standing. This valuable information came via DTW 06 to Ron Chusid's http://liberalvaluesblog.com/

http://capwiz.com/iava/dbq/officials/

"Each IAVA Congressional Rating is based on a given legislator's voting history on issues that affect US Troops, Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and military families.

To calculate the Ratings, IAVA reviewed all legislation voted on in the Congress since September 11, 2001. For each piece of legislation that affected troops, veterans or military families, IAVA took a position either in support of, or in opposition to its passage. The letter grades were derived, using the scales below, from the percentage of times that each legislator's vote matched the official IAVA stance.

A total of 169 House votes and 155 Senate votes were used to determine the ratings. You can view all of this legislation, either in a complete list or grouped by session, by clicking here.

IAVA is a non-partisan, non-profit organization. These ratings were determined using a simple and transparent mathematical formula."

!!!Great resource to counteract your Senators and Congresspeople's rating v. John Kerry's!!!

[MH1]

1. Pls fix title - IAVA not HAVA. n/t

[Firespirit]

4. Heh, yes.

HAVA = not so good.

[beachmom]

2. That IS cool, but did anyone get an A?

Sen. Kerry got a B, and Sen. Kennedy a B+.

Allen got a D+ and Thelma Drake a D-.

[karynnj]

5. There were many Democrat As

Kerry is actually hurt because of the missed votes in 2004 - which are counted against him.

[beachmom]

3. Hey, thanks. I used this to knock Allen and Drake on my local blog

http://vbdems.blogspot.com/2006/11/d-and-d-for-helping-troops.html


I don't mention Kerry by name, but just reference a link to his B grade.

[sandnsea]

6. DAV has ratings too

In one of my emails, for additional info. Kerry gets an 81% with the DAV and Democrats do much better than Republicans as well.
http://americansforsharedsacrifice.org/Senate_DAV_Votes.htm

Okay, I can hear some GOP apologists whining that the IAVA is
a "radical" Veterans' group - it doesn't represent the mainstream
Veterans. Alright, So how about the Disabled American Veterans (DAV)
(http://www.dav.org/)?

The DAV gives Conrad Burns a "60%" rating. Max Baucus got an "80%."
Denny Rehberg earned himself a "50%" rating.

So - there's not a "radical" difference between the grades handed out
by the IAVA and the DAV.

How about the US Senate at large? Which party supports active duty
troops, Veterans and military families - and which party just shoots
its mouth off? Well, I'm pretty sure you already know the answer to
that, but, here goes anyway. . . .

The highest grade given by the IAVA to any Senator was an "A-".

Thirteen Senators an "A-" . . . all of those were Democrats.

Twenty-three Senators earned a "B+" . . . 22 of them were Democrats,
the other one was James Jeffords of Vermont.

The lowest grade given to a Democrat by the Iraq & Afghanistan
Veterans of America was a "B-" handed out to Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

The highest grade given out to Republicans were three "Cs" that went
to Lincoln Chafee (RI), Olympia Snowe (ME), and Arlen Specter (PA).

--Averaged together, Senate Democrats earned a "B+".
--Averaged together, Senate Republicans earn a "D." So I guess
Conrad's D+ means that he's a paragon of virtue for a Republican that
is.

Six Senators earned an "F" - they were, of course, all Republicans.
Interestingly enough they're all Republicans from that bastion of
right-thinking patriotism, The South.

Those earning F's were:
--Richard Burr, Republican, North Carolina
--Tom Coburn, Republican, Oklahoma
--Jim DeMint, Republican, South Carolina
--Johnny Isakson, Republican, Georgia
--Jeff Sessions, Republican, Alabama
--Dave Vitter, Republican, Louisiana

[k j]

9. Thanks for DAV

and the work of averaging!

[k j]

7. Past time to edit.... :-(

Good grief. I never post topics and when I do, major headline typo.

[k j]

8. Missouri Senators Rank

http://kansascityvoices.tripod.com/

Senator Christopher S. Bond (R-MO) D
(4th-term Republican from Missouri)

Senator Jim Talent (R-MO) D+
(1st-term Republican from Missouri)

My Congressman (15th-term Democrat from Missouri) received an A-