Rating Group: California Chamber of Commerce

2005 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 100%
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 100%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 93%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 27%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 100%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 17%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 33%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 17%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 93%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 13%
CA U.S. House-51 Juan Vargas D 42%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 13%
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 9%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 25%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 25%
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 17%
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 17%
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 92%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 33%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 17%
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 100%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 50%
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 100%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 100%
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 20%
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 17%
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 9%
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 17%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 100%
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 17%
CA Council Member-At-Large Joe Baca, Jr. Other 42%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 13%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 100%
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 100%
Samuel Aanestad Other 87%
Richard Ackerman Other 93%
Gregory Aghazarian Other 100%
Richard Alarcón Other 13%
Elaine Alquist Other 13%
Juan Arambula Other 58%
Roy Ashburn Other 93%
James Battin Other 93%
Patty Berg Other 17%
Rudy Bermúdez Other 17%
Sam Blakeslee Other 100%
Russell Bogh Other 92%
Joseph Canciamilla Other 50%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 27%
Edward Chavez Other 42%
Rebecca Cohn Other 33%
Joe Coto Other 33%
Dave Cox Other 93%
Lynn Daucher Other 92%
Hector De La Torre Other 17%
Charles DeVore Other 100%
Denise Ducheny Other 60%
Joseph Dunn Other 13%
Robert Dutton Other 100%
Mervyn Dymally Other 17%
Martha Escutia Other 7%
Liz Figueroa Other 27%
Dean Florez Other 40%
Dario Frommer Other 25%
Bonnie Garcia Other 92%
Jackie Goldberg Other 17%
Tom Harman Other 91%
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 100%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 100%
Jerome Horton Other 33%
Shirley Horton Other 82%
Guy Houston Other 100%
Betty Karnette Other 25%
Richard Keene Other 92%
Christine Kehoe Other 13%
Johan Klehs Other 17%
Sheila Kuehl Other 13%
John Laird Other 17%
Jay La Suer Other 91%
Robert Leslie Other 100%
Lloyd Levine Other 25%
Sally Lieber Other 17%
Michael Machado Other 60%
Abel Maldonado Other 93%
Bob Margett Other 86%
Barbara Matthews Other 67%
Bill Maze Other 100%
Carole Migden Other 13%
Cindy Montañez Other 17%
William Phillip Morrow Other 93%
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 100%
Eugene Mullin Other 17%
Kevin Murray Other 42%
Joseph Nation Other 25%
Pedro Nava Other 25%
Roger Niello Other 100%
Fabian Núñez Other 17%
Jenny Oropeza Other 33%
Deborah Ortiz Other 20%
Nicole Parra Other 58%
Don Perata Other 20%
George Plescia Other 100%
Charles Poochigian Other 93%
Keith Stuart Richman Other 100%
Gloria Romero Other 7%
George Runner, Jr. Other 100%
Sharon Runner Other 100%
Ira Ruskin Other 25%
Lori Saldaña Other 17%
Simón Salinas Other 18%
Jack Scott Other 27%
Saren Simitian Other 20%
Nell Soto Other 13%
Todd Spitzer Other 92%
Audra Strickland Other 92%
Alberto Torrico Other 33%
Van Tran Other 92%
Thomas Umberg Other 33%
Mike Villines Other 100%
Edward Vincent Other 17%

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