Rating Group: National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund

2000 Lifetime Score

Issues: Guns
State Office Name Party Rating
VT Governor Peter Shumlin D A+
VT State House-Addison-5 Harvey Smith R A
VT State House-Bennington-2-2 Mary Morrissey R A+
VT State House-Bennington-3 Alice Miller D A+
VT State House-Caledonia-1 Leigh Larocque R A
VT State House-Chittenden-6-7 George Cross D F
VT State House-Chittenden-7-2 Ann Pugh D F
VT State House-Chittenden-8-3 Martha Heath D C
VT State House-Essex-Caledonia-Orleans William Johnson Other A+
VT State House-Franklin-3-1 Kathleen Keenan D A
VT State House-Lamoille-2 Mark Woodward D A
VT State House-Orange-1 Philip Winters R A
VT State House-Rutland-3 Robert Helm Other A+
VT State House-Washington-2 Thomas Koch Other A
VT State House-Windham-3 Carolyn Partridge D B
VT State House-Windham-4 David Deen D F
VT State House-Windsor-3-2 Alice Emmons Other A
VT State House-Windsor-Orange-2 James Masland D A
VT State Senate-Bennington Richard Sears, Jr. D A+
VT State Senate-Essex-Orleans Robert Starr D A+
VT State Senate-Grand Isle Richard Mazza D A
VT State Senate-Lamoille Richard Westman R A
VT State Senate-Orange Mark MacDonald D A+
VT State Senate-Washington Ann Cummings D A
VT State Senate-Washington William Doyle R A
VT State Senate-Windsor Richard McCormack D A-
VT State Senate-Windsor Alice Nitka D A+
Elaine Alfano Other F
Philip Angell, Jr. Other A
Jean Ankeney Other F
William Aswad Other F
Kenneth Atkins Other F
Thomas Bahre Other A+
Joseph Baker Other A+
Jason Barney Other B
Susan Bartlett Other A
John Bloomer, Jr. Other A+
Stephanie Bourdeau Other A
Francis Brooks Other A+
David Brown Other A+
Julius Canns Other A+
Nancy Chard Other A+
David Clark Other A
George Costes Other A
Howard Crawford Other A+
John Crowley Other F
Dan Darrow Other A
Steve Darrow Other A+
Patricia Doyle Other B
Walter Freed Other A+
Avis Gervais Other A
Anne Ginevan Other F
Henry Gray Other A
James Greenwood Other A+
Neil Hoag Other A+
Constance Houston Other A
Richard Hube Other B
Cola Hudson Other A
Bruce Hyde Other A
Robert Ide Other A+
Vincent Illuzzi Other A+
Michael Kainen Other A
Robert Everett Kinsey Other A+
Sara Kittell Other A+
Karen Kitzmiller Other F
Albert Krawczyk Other A
Jerry Kreitzer Other B
John LaBarge Other A
Steve Larrabee, Sr. Other A+
James Leddy Other A
Thomas Little Other A
Judith Livingston Other A
Richard Marron Other A
Frederick Maslack Other A+
Hull Maynard Other A
Frank Mazur Other C
Thomas McGrath Other A
Doran Metzger Other A
Lawrence Molloy Other B
Gerald Morrissey Other A
Michael John Obuchowski Other A+
Donny Osman Other F
Allen Palmer Other A+
Edward Paquin, Jr. Other A
Janice Peaslee Other A+
Richard Pembroke, Sr. Other C+
Albert Joseph Perry Other A+
Ira Pike Other A+
Barbara Postman Other A
Michael Quaid Other A-
Neil Randall Other A+
Elizabeth Mary Ready Other A+
Cheryl Pratt Rivers Other A+
David Rogers Other A+
Henry Schaefer Other F
George Schiavone Other B
Ann Seibert Other F
Nancy Sheltra Other A+
Gene Sweetser Other A+
Ruth Towne Other A+
John Patrick Tracy Other B
Michael Vinton Other B
Cathy Voyer Other A
Perry Waite Other A+
Alan Weiss Other B
James Willett Other A
William Wisell Other A
Robert Wood, Jr. Other A
Mark Young Other A

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