Rating Group: Utah Kids Coalition

1998 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
UT State House-36 Patrice Arent D 100%
UT State House-53 Melvin Brown R 44%
UT State Senate-3 Gene Davis D 100%
UT State Senate-6 Wayne Harper R 56%
UT State Senate-11 Howard Stephenson R 67%
UT State Senate-14 John Valentine R 56%
UT State Senate-15 Margaret Dayton R 44%
UT State Senate-17 Peter Knudson R 100%
UT State Senate-25 Lyle Hillyard R 89%
UT Attorney General John Swallow R 33%
UT Commissioner of Agriculture Leonard Blackham Other 56%
UT Mayor-At-Large Ralph Becker Other 100%
UT Council Member-At-Large David Ure R 33%
UT Council Member-North Craig Buttars R 56%
Gerry Adair Other 67%
Jeff Alexander Other 33%
Brian Allen Other 78%
Sheryl Allen Other 89%
Eli Anderson Other 89%
John Arrington Other 89%
Loretta Baca Other 89%
Steve Barth Other 78%
Lane Beattie Other 89%
Trisha Beck Other 89%
Ron Bigelow Other 67%
Duane Bourdeaux Other 100%
DeMar Bowman Other 56%
Afton Bradshaw Other 89%
Katherine Bryson Other 22%
Perry Buckner Other 100%
Judy Ann Buffmire Other 89%
David Buhler Other 100%
Don Bush Other 67%
Mary Carlson Other 78%
Orville Carnahan Other 78%
Blake Chard Other 44%
Gary Cox Other 100%
Greg Curtis Other 67%
Marda Dillree Other 56%
Mike Dmitrich Other 89%
Beverly Ann Evans Other 78%
R. Mont Evans Other 44%
Christine Fox-Finlinson Other 67%
Lloyd Frandsen Other 89%
Kevin Garn Other 67%
David Gladwell Other 89%
Brent Goodfellow Other 100%
James Gowans Other 67%
Thomas Hatch Other 56%
J. Brent Haymond Other 78%
Neal Hendrickson Other 89%
John Hickman Other 33%
Dave Hogue Other 89%
Bryan Holladay Other 100%
John Holmgren Other 89%
Scott Howell Other 100%
Joseph Hull Other 78%
Dennis Iverson Other 11%
Bradley Johnson Other 44%
Keele Johnson Other 56%
David Jones Other 100%
Lorin Jones Other 89%
Robert H.M. Killpack Other 67%
Brad King Other 89%
Susan Koehn Other 78%
Patricia Larson Other 78%
L. Alma Mansell Other 89%
George Mantes Other 89%
Ed Mayne Other 89%
LeRay McAllister Other 89%
Robert Montgomery Other 89%
Robert Muhlestein Other 78%
Joseph Murray Other 78%
Alarik Myrin Other 89%
Lowell Allen Nelson Other 56%
Swen Nielsen Other 56%
Howard Nielson Other 78%
Evan Olsen Other 44%
Loraine Pace Other 67%
Craig Peterson Other 89%
Millie Peterson Other 89%
L. Steven Poulton Other 78%
Tammy Rowan Other 44%
Carl Saunders Other 89%
Jack Seitz Other 67%
Raymond Short Other 67%
Richard Siddoway Other 100%
David Steele Other 100%
Robert Steiner Other 67%
Martin Stephens Other 44%
Nora Thurgood Stephens Other 56%
Michael Styler Other 89%
Pete Suazo Other 78%
Jordan Tanner Other 89%
Nathan Tanner Other 44%
Craig Taylor Other 22%
Daniel Tuttle Other 100%
A. Lamont Tyler Other 100%
Michael Waddoups Other 100%
Richard Walsh Other 56%
Glenn Way Other 44%
Blaze Wharton Other 78%
Bill Wright Other 44%
David Zolman, Sr. Other 56%

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