Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is quite pleased with the state Business Council’s flattering ratings of his GOP majority in their voter guide released widely this morning.

Capital Tonight viewers got a sneak peak of the ratings last night, via President Heather Briccetti. Her interview with Liz can be found here.

Skelos and company received high marks from the council, which based its 2012 voter guide on the Tier Six pension overhaul bill, wage-theft prevention act changes and the one-house NY Jobs bill that included a package of business tax cuts among other measures.

Nearly every Senate Republican received a rating of 90 percent from the business council. Republican Sen. David Storobin, the victor of a drawn-out recount in Brooklyn, was not included in the list.

In a statement, Skelos is sure to point out how well the Republican majority has worked with Cuomo.

“The Business Council’s 2012 voters guide shows that Senate Republicans have been working successfully with Governor Cuomo to control spending, cut taxes and lay the foundation to create thousands of new jobs in New York. These scores highlight the importance of a Senate Republican majority in moving this state forward, and is further proof that, if given the opportunity, Senate Democrats would increase spending, raise taxes, place obstacles in front of businesses and roll back all of the progress we’ve made over the last 19 months.”

Democrats are probably not smarting too much from this, given that they’ve sought to bolster their ties to the state’s labor organizations and have touted their early endorsements from the AFL-CIO (Sen. Marty Golden, a target of Senate Democrats every two years, lost the endorsement to his Democratic challenger, Andrew Gounardes).

Interestingly, the four-member Independent Democratic Conference scored slightly higher ratings than the remaining Democratic minority.

The IDC, which features moderate-to-conservative Democrats like David Valesky, have aligned themselves with Senate Republicans on several issues, save for their support of a minimum wage bill that the business groups have generally opposed.

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