The optimal situation is for all our Denton County State Legislators (five State House Reps and two Senators) to achieve a +1 score for each of our Official TX GOP Legislative Priorities. Currently, there are EIGHT Priorities.
The +1 score is achieved by
- proposing good bills
- supporting good bills in committee
- supporting rules that advance the priorities, and
- publicly speaking out in favor of each priority
How Points Are Scored
+1
PRO-CONSERVATIVE
Legislator earns this point when they support one of our TX GOP priorities and take specific, decisive action to advance it through the legislature.
0
INCONCLUSIVE
Legislator earns this point when they appear to be on the fence, declining to take action to either support or oppose one of our TX GOP priorities.
-1
PRO-LIBERAL
Legislator earns this point when they refuse to support, or even openly oppose, one of our TX GOP priorities—allowing the liberal agenda to advance.
We use an objective, not arbitrary, standard. Each Denton County legislator is tracked throughout the legislative session. A D3C panel examines the exact language of the eight official 2025 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:
- Bills legislators have filed.
- Bills legislators have co-authored or co-sponsored prior to the last 6 weeks of session (this time limit screens out “late sponsorship tricks”—the practice of endorsing a bill after it is known to be dead due to committee delay).
- Amendments legislators have offered (if any).
- Committee actions and votes taken by Denton County legislators that involve the legislative priorities for that session and/or high priority bills such as votes on Speaker of the House, property taxes, grid bills, highway bills, etc.
- Verbal support for any of the bills being tracked.
- 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.
