Rating Group: Congress of California Seniors

2009 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-2 Jared Huffman D 100%
CA U.S. House-8 Paul Cook R 36%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 25%
CA U.S. House-26 Julia Brownley D 100%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 75%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 83%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 92%
CA State Assembly-3 Dan Logue R 25%
CA State Assembly-4 Mariko Yamada D 100%
CA State Assembly-15 Nancy Skinner D 100%
CA State Assembly-16 Joan Buchanan D 67%
CA State Assembly-17 Tom Ammiano D 100%
CA State Assembly-26 Connie Conway R 33%
CA State Assembly-28 Paul Fong D 100%
CA State Assembly-42 Brian Nestande R 33%
CA State Assembly-45 Bob Blumenfield D 100%
CA State Assembly-52 Norma Torres D 100%
CA State Assembly-53 John Pérez D 100%
CA State Assembly-55 Curt Hagman R 25%
CA State Assembly-56 V. Pérez D 92%
CA State Assembly-64 Isadore Hall III D 83%
CA State Assembly-70 Bonnie Lowenthal D 100%
CA State Assembly-73 Diane Harkey R 33%
CA State Senate-1 Ted Gaines R 18%
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 100%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 92%
CA State Senate-4 Jim Nielsen R 25%
CA State Senate-5 Cathleen Galgiani D 67%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 100%
CA State Senate-7 Mark DeSaulnier D 100%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 92%
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 100%
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 100%
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100%
CA State Senate-13 Gerald Hill D 100%
CA State Senate-14 Thomas Berryhill R 25%
CA State Senate-15 James Beall, Jr. D 100%
CA State Senate-17 Bill Monning D 100%
CA State Senate-18 Jean Fuller R 25%
CA State Senate-20 Alex Padilla D 91%
CA State Senate-21 Stephen Knight R 33%
CA State Senate-22 Kevin de Leon D 100%
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 42%
CA State Senate-24 Edward Hernandez D 92%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 92%
CA State Senate-26 Curren Price, Jr. D 100%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100%
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 92%
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 25%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 92%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 67%
CA State Senate-35 Roderick Wright D 92%
CA State Senate-36 Joel Anderson R 25%
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 25%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 27%
CA State Senate-39 Martin Block D 92%
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 100%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 18%
CA Council Member-2 Paul Krekorian D 100%
CA Council Member-7 Felipe Fuentes D 91%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 100%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 33%
Samuel Aanestad Other 25%
Anthony Adams Other 50%
Elaine Alquist Other 100%
Juan Arambula Other 100%
Roy Ashburn Other 42%
Bill Berryhill Other 25%
Sam Blakeslee Other 33%
Anna Caballero Other 100%
Charles Calderon Other 75%
Amina Carter Other 92%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 91%
Joe Coto Other 100%
Dave Cox Other 33%
Mike Davis Other 100%
Hector De La Torre Other 100%
Charles DeVore Other 17%
Denise Ducheny Other 100%
Robert Dutton Other 25%
Michael Duvall Other 42%
Mike Eng Other 92%
Mike Feuer Other 100%
Nathan Fletcher Other 20%
Dean Florez Other 100%
Warren Furutani Other 100%
Martin Garrick Other 33%
Danny Gilmore Other 42%
Tom Harman Other 25%
Mary Hayashi Other 100%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 17%
Alyson Huber Other 67%
Kevin Jeffries Other 33%
Christine Kehoe Other 92%
Fiona Ma Other 100%
Abel Maldonado Other 58%
Tony Mendoza Other 100%
Jeff Miller Other 25%
Pedro Nava Other 100%
Roger Niello Other 42%
Jenny Oropeza Other 70%
Anthony Portantino, Jr. Other 92%
Gloria Romero Other 100%
George Runner, Jr. Other 25%
Ira Ruskin Other 100%
Mary Salas Other 100%
Lori Saldaña Other 100%
Jim Silva Other 25%
Saren Simitian Other 100%
Cameron Smyth Other 27%
Jose Solorio Other 92%
Tony Strickland Other 33%
Audra Strickland Other 25%
Sandré Swanson Other 100%
Alberto Torrico Other 100%
Van Tran Other 33%
Mike Villines Other 36%
Patricia Wiggins Other 100%

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