Congratulations to Rep. Dave Agema

[sethgecko13]

Mega dittos to Michigan Rep. Dave Agema for being voted the LEAST EFFECTIVE legislator in the House of Representatives.

Effective Leaders
by The Grand Rapids Press | Sunday May 31, 2009, 3:35 AM

"Kent County's Mark Jansen has the distinction of being named the most effective state senator in a survey of political insiders sponsored by Lansing

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[sethgecko13]

My first question would be: source?

Second (assuming what you posted is accurate) 300 people responding to a survey is a 30% response rate which any statistician will tell you is pretty good (at the very least it's statistically-significant).

33 votes sounds small, until one considers that it's fully 11 percent of the respondents. Given that they had 110 possible legislators to choose from when casting their votes - that makes the results even more substantial (particularly if there were no "close seconds").

If you have evidence that Agema's rankings are the result of some sort of conspiracy to retaliate against him for his ultra-right wing voting record, by all means post it. (Same goes if you happen to have evidence of his "substantive results").

There are two reasons Agema isn't a career politician: 1) term limits and 2) he'd never be elected by a constituency outside of Grandville (except perhaps Rochester) because his views are so far out-of-step with the vast majority of Michiganians (for example, I think a lot of Michigan residents would disagree that funding the DEQ to protect our natural resources is "wasteful government spending").

I love hearing admonishments from anonymous posters. Sir, I did "report the truth." Nothing I said was inaccurate, nor was it contradicted by the Grover Norquist/Club for Growth talking points you just posted. Moreover, unlike you, I cited my sources.