Senator Akbari (D) 2nd Vice-Chair, Senate Education Committee, Member: Senate Commerce and Labor Committee, Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, and Senate Ethics Committee. Senator Akbari is a new senate, having first served in the house. She is a mostly party-line member and that may explain her leadership grade and voting score. She co-sponsored only one TLRC bill and that was one we opposed: legalizing alcohol on campus. We find it inappropriate to legalize a substance that is illegal to the majority of students (who are underage) in a location that exists exclusively for their education. ..No other sponsorships or co-sponsorships that were among our endorsements. Her vote score of 42% is well below average. Senator Akbari seems very intelligent and well-educated so we must conclude that her contrary positions arise out of the dishonest and biased education that prevails in our schools and universities across the nation. It is sad that a system as beneficent to all, as is our constitutional republic, is deliberately mischaracterized and denigrated by those who want to bring it down through division, distrust, and mis-education.