RALEIGH — For the second consecutive year, Rep. Ben Moss has been named a “Jobs Champion” by NC Chamber.
Moss, R-Richmond, scored 93% in N.C. Chamber’s annual “How They Voted” report, which “uses a standardized formula to objectively grade the voting performance of North Carolina legislators on the bills that were most consequential to NC Chamber members and the state’s larger business community.”
According to the report, those bills are organized under the NC Chamber’s “three pillars of pro-business advocacy:” education and talent supply; competitive business climate, and infrastructure and growth leadership.
“Despite the lingering uncertainty, it was another productive session for the NC Chamber and for North Carolina’s job creators,”Gary J. Salamido, president and CEO of NC Chamber, said in the report’s introduction.
“We protected key assessment tools to guide the progress of our future workforce and gave businesses the certainty to operate more effectively in an increasingly digital environment,” Salamido added. “We’ve secured landmark energy legislation that will grow our economy and ensured that pro-jobs priorities like franchise tax reform advanced in the state budget.”
Although Moss wasn’t a primary sponsor on any of the 16 bills from 2021-2022 that were judged, he still received 13 pro-jobs points and one anti-jobs point, the same as the year before.
Click here to read the 2021 story.
Legislators scoring at least 80% are considered Jobs Champions.
“I’m humbled to receive this recognition for our work to drive economic growth in North Carolina,” Moss said in a press release, “I am an employer and I have been an employee – and will continue to use this experience to serve and benefit businesses and employees across North Carolina.”
The approval rating could help Moss in his 2024 bid for labor commissioner, which was announced before Christmas.
Click here to read the campaign announcement.
Despite being the primary sponsor of a bill opposed by NC Chamber, Sen. Dave Craven, R-Randolph, scored 15 pro-jobs points and no anti-jobs points.
The aforementioned legislation —Senate Bill 357: Helping Consumers in Crisis Act — would have threatened “progress made by the NC Chamber and NC Chamber Legal Institute to reestablish a top-10 legal climate for business in North Carolina,” according to the report.
Craven has a 100% rating.
Sen. Tom McInnis, R-Moore, scored 16 jobs points and has a 99% rating.
See the full report below.
