Our Mission

State Rep Scorecard gives voters in Denton & Wise County a simple way to track the progress our state representatives are making on advancing the priorities we elected them to advance during each legislative session. Voters can review the priorities, view updated priority scores for each state rep, and contact each rep directly to express their thanks, encouragement or displeasure—all in one convenient place.

State Rep Scorecard also gives Denton & Wise County state representatives a way to measure their own progress on each priority vs the progress of their fellow representatives, through the eyes of the voters. Our scoring system puts representatives and voters on the same page, in order to maximize transparency.

Grading Process

Each Denton County legislator is tracked throughout the legislative session. A D3C panel examines the exact language of the official Republican Party of Texas Legislative Priorities and the RPT Platform language. The panel then examines the bills considered by the RPT to be those advancing the priority and platform language. Finally, the panel compares the words and actions of the legislator regarding the bills carrying the priority. The following criteria are used:

1. Bills legislators have filed.
2. Bills legislators have co-authored or co-sponsored prior to the last 6 weeks of session.
3. Amendments legislators have offered (if any).
4. Committee actions and votes taken by Denton County legislators that involve the legislative priorities for that session and/or high priority bills such as property taxes, grid bills, highway bills, etc.
5. Verbal support for any of the bills being tracked.
6. Number of bills each legislator support within each category of legislative criteria?  Was it only one or two, half of them or most of them per category?

Weekly updates are made by the D3C legislative affairs committee, and spreadsheets and internal quantitative scores assigned.