RINO Report – Belknap County

For someone who analyzes voting records, it is sad to see how Belknap has changed. For the last decade, the Belknap delegation (the group of State Reps from Belknap) has had the best voting record of all counties.

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Now, they have some of the worst voting records. Some Reps with very good records are gone, some new Reps have bad records, and some old Reps have records worse than before.

The 2023 RINO Report shows the median RINO score for all Republicans is 1.5%. Only 10% of all Republicans have scores worse than 8%. Only 15 of 200 Republicans have double-digit scores.

In Belknap, the median score is 2.3% (vs. 1.5% statewide); four of its 15 Reps (27% vs. 10% statewide) have scores worse than 8%. Belknap has four Reps above 10% – more than any other county. Its average RINO score is the second worst of all ten counties.

Mike Bordes has the second worse score of all 200 Republicans. He voted 38 times with Democrats against a super-majority, in most cases 95%, of Republicans. Nagel and Trottier are in the top 10 of the worst RINOs. O’Hara is barely better at the 11th worst. Trottier had the worst attendance of all Republicans; O’Hara was second worst.

More than 95% of Republican Reps supported SB272 (Parents’ Bill of Rights in Education), which among other things, says that teachers should not lie to parents about the potential gender transitioning of children.

Bordes strenuously opposed the Parents’ Bill of Rights, even to the point of co-sponsoring a Democrat amendment to weaken the bill. To a lesser extent, Nagel and O’Hara also opposed the Parents’ Bill of Rights. Nagel co-sponsored another Democrat amendment to weaken the bill.