Idaho Freedom Index (2013)
The Idaho Freedom Foundation, an Idaho-based nonprofit, released its Idaho Freedom Index in 2013. As of 2023, the foundation described its mission as "to make Idaho into a Laboratory of Liberty by exposing, defeating, and replacing the state's socialist public policies."[1][2]
2013 report
The Senate members had 74 bills impact their score, with a total of 194 possible points. The House members had 75 bills impact their score, with a total of 180 possible points. A higher score denotes that a legislator was rated as being more favorable to the Idaho Freedom Foundation's values.
The 10 members of the state House considered most supportive of the foundation's values were:
The 10 members of the state House considered least supportive of the foundation's values were:
The 10 members of the state Senate considered most supportive of the foundation's values were:
The 10 members of the state Senate considered least supportive of the foundation's values were:
2013 Idaho House Scorecard
2013 Idaho Senate Scorecard
| 2013 Idaho Senate Scorecard | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Party | Legislative District | Overall Score | |||||
| Steve Vick |  |
2 | 137 | |||||
| Bob Nonini | |
3 | 136 | |||||
| Monty J. Pearce | |
9 | 132 | |||||
| Sheryl L. Nuxoll | |
7 | 131 | |||||
| Clifford R. Bayer | |
21 | 120 | |||||
| Russell M. Fulcher | |
22 | 95 | |||||
| Steven Thayn | |
8 | 66 | |||||
| Branden J. Durst |  |
18 | 49 | |||||
| Curt McKenzie | |
13 | 46 | |||||
| Dan Johnson | |
6 | 46 | |||||
| Chuck Winder | |
20 | 44 | |||||
| Dean M. Mortimer | |
30 | 42 | |||||
| Jim Rice | |
10 | -23 | |||||
| Jeff C. Siddoway | |
35 | -50 | |||||
| Marv Hagedorn | |
14 | -50 | |||||
| R. Steven Bair | |
31 | -52 | |||||
| Dean Cameron | |
27 | -60 | |||||
| Jim Guthrie | |
28 | -60 | |||||
| Michelle Stennett | |
26 | -63 | |||||
| Dan J. Schmidt | |
5 | -65 | |||||
| Lee Heider | |
24 | -66 | |||||
| Patti Anne Lodge | |
11 | -66 | |||||
| Bert Brackett | |
23 | -67 | |||||
| James Patrick | |
25 | -67 | |||||
| John Tippets | |
32 | -68 | |||||
| Roy Lacey | |
29 | -70 | |||||
| Brent Hill | |
34 | -72 | |||||
| Les Bock | |
16 | -72 | |||||
| John Goedde | |
4 | -75 | |||||
| Todd Lakey | |
12 | -75 | |||||
| Bart M. Davis | |
33 | -77 | |||||
| Shawn A. Keough | |
1 | -79 | |||||
| Fred S. Martin | |
15 | -83 | |||||
| Cherie Buckner-Webb | |
19 | -87 | |||||
| Elliot Werk | |
17 | -88 | |||||
Methodology
Click here to read about how the Idaho Freedom Foundation calculated its ratings as of 2019, and click here for more detail about the metrics. Click here for more information about how the foundation handled the index in previous years.
The foundation described the methodology for its 2013 report in the following way: "The Idaho Freedom Index examines legislation for free market principles, constitutionality, regulatory growth and other defined metrics. The examination then results in a numeric value being assigned to each bill having an impact on economic freedom and growth of government. We then take those numeric values and tally each legislator’s House or Senate floor votes to see whether that legislator, in total, supported or opposed economic freedom."[1]
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