The NY Republican ratings (from the ACU) are awful. The 2014 ratings haven’t been released, yet, but the last ones from 2013 showed just mediocrity across the board.
Gibson and Peter King (Sinn Fein-L.I.) scored 36% Conservative. Richard Hanna scored a 48%, and he’s supposed to be worse than either. Tom Reed got a 52%, down from 80%. Chris Collins scored the highest at 64%, but that’s nowhere close to being Conservative. But who scored the worst ? None other than Grimm at 27%, who managed to be to the left of now-ex Dem Cong. Dan Maffei, who got a 28%. Even my bizarre Congressman Cooper here in TN got a 28%.
ACU ratings have been bizarre in recent years
I see a lot freepers touting the Heritage foundation scores,
http://www.heritageactionscorecard.com/members
In those, Gibson got a 26% the worst of a NY Republican, Grimm a 32%, King a 35%, Hanna (who yes I thought was the worst of the bunch) a 40%. Reed 41%, Collins 44%, defeated rat Maffei 14%.
National Journal had Gibson rated the most liberal House Republican, they had Jim Matheson (D) a space ahead of him and John Barrow (D) a space ahead of Grimm and Hanna (right above Barrow, RINO Walter Jones).
http://www.nationaljournal.com/free/document/download/5075-1
In any case there seems to be general agreement that Gibson is not very conservative. I hope the wealthy homosexual rat whom he crushed in November is not the next Congressman. This seat was 52%-46% Obama, should be close again in 2016.