Conservative Party Puts Out Rankings
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- October
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Long Island Republican Assemblyman Michael Fitzpatrick scored the highest grade today from the state Conservative Party’s ratings for the 2008 legislative session.
“If the other 211 Members of the Legislature voted as Assemblyman Fitzpatrick votes, the State would be in much better financial shape,†party Chairman Michael Long said.
The Conservative Party used 20 bills as guides as to whether legislators voted along conservative lines.
In all, the Republican-controlled Senate had a 41 percent rating, while the Democratic-controlled Assembly had a 25 percent rating.
The only bill where Fitzpatrick, above, strayed from the party was Democratic Assemblyman Richard Brodsky’s bill that expands the list of public employees eligible for breast cancer and prostate cancer screening paid days-off.
Conservatives said “that public employees already have extremely generous allotments of personal time to use for these important screenings.”
Five Republican senators got the party’s highest rating: Steve Saland of Poughkeepsie, Owen Johnson of Long Island, John DeFrancisco of Syracuse, Serf Maltese of Queens and Hugh Farley of the Albany area.
You can view the full list here.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
it’s funny that malcolm smith beat joe bruno