Rating Group: Colorado AFL-CIO

2005 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 8%
CO State Senate-1 Greg Brophy R 9%
CO State Senate-12 Bill Cadman R 17%
CO State Senate-15 Kevin Lundberg R 0%
CO State Senate-20 Cheri Jahn D 83%
CO State Senate-24 Lois Tochtrop D 100%
CO State Senate-25 Mary Hodge D 100%
CO State Senate-27 David Balmer R 20%
CO State Senate-28 Nancy Todd D 100%
CO State Senate-29 Morgan Carroll D 93%
CO State Senate-30 Ted Harvey R 25%
CO Insurance Commissioner James Riesberg D 77%
CO Council Member-At-Large Susan Shepherd D 100%
CO Council Member Susan Shepherd Other 100%
CO Commissioner-2 Steve Johnson Other 31%
Bob Bacon Other 100%
Debbie Benefield Other 100%
William Berens Other 54%
Alice Borodkin Other 100%
Betty Boyd Other 100%
Bernie Buescher Other 92%
Dorothy Butcher Other 79%
Terrance Carroll Other 100%
Michael Cerbo Other 100%
Lauri Clapp Other 17%
Mark Alan Cloer Other 31%
Fran Coleman Other 93%
Bill Crane Other 25%
Kathleen Curry Other 100%
Richard Decker Other 33%
F. Jim Dyer Other 9%
Lewis Entz Other 23%
John Evans Other 7%
Joan Fitz-Gerald Other 100%
K. Jerry Frangas Other 100%
Rafael Lorenzo Gallegos Other 70%
Michael Garcia Other 100%
Kenneth Marshall Gordon Other 100%
Gwyn Green Other 92%
Peter Groff Other 100%
Daniel Grossman Other 100%
Bob Hagedorn Other 100%
Dale Hall Other 42%
Lynn Christian Hefley Other 18%
Diane Hoppe Other 25%
James Isgar Other 100%
Ed Jones Other 15%
Joel Judd Other 100%
Maryanne Keller Other 100%
James Kerr Other 42%
Kenneth Kester Other 43%
Keith King Other 25%
Matthew Knoedler Other 27%
Mark Larson Other 58%
Gary Lindstrom Other 83%
Larry Liston Other 33%
Alice Madden Other 100%
Rosemary Marshall Other 93%
Thomas Massey, Jr. Other 40%
Michael May Other 27%
Ronny May Other 8%
Bob McCluskey, Jr. Other 47%
Andrew McElhany Other 14%
Liane McFadyen Other 100%
Anne McGihon Other 92%
Wes McKinley Other 67%
Michael Merrifield Other 92%
Shawn Mitchell Other 8%
David Owen Other 8%
Angie Paccione Other 93%
Joshua Penry Other 33%
Tom Plant Other 100%
John Pommer Other 100%
Ann Ragsdale Other 100%
Andrew Romanoff Other 100%
Raymond Rose Other 50%
David Schultheis Other 25%
Brandon Shaffer Other 100%
Judy Solano Other 100%
John Soper Other 100%
Nancy Spence Other 15%
Debbie Stafford Other 8%
Joseph Stengel, Jr. Other 25%
James Sullivan Other 31%
Stephanie Takis Other 100%
Abel Tapia Other 100%
Jack Taylor Other 8%
Ronald Teck Other 15%
Ron Tupa Other 100%
Jennifer Veiga Other 100%
Valentin Vigil Other 100%
Paul Weissmann Other 92%
James Welker Other 17%
Albert White Other 57%
Tom Wiens Other 8%
Suzanne Williams Other 100%
Sue Windels Other 100%
Robert Witwer Other 33%

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