Rating Group: Alliance for Better Business

2001 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 0%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 85%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 38%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 100%
CA U.S. House-29 Tony Cardenas D 77%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 92%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 0%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100%
CA U.S. House-51 Juan Vargas D 92%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 93%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 100%
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 100%
CA State Senate-19 Hannah-Beth Jackson D 100%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 92%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 69%
CA State Senate-35 Roderick Wright D 77%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 0%
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 100%
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 100%
CA Supervisor-4 Dick Monteith Other 0%
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 100%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 100%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 0%
Samuel Aanestad Other 0%
Richard Ackerman Other 0%
Richard Alarcón Other 100%
Deirdre Alpert Other 92%
Elaine Alquist Other 93%
Dion Aroner Other 100%
Roy Ashburn Other 0%
Patricia Bates Other 0%
James Battin Other 0%
Russell Bogh Other 0%
Mike Briggs Other 0%
James Brulte Other 0%
John Burton Other 100%
Thomas Calderon Other 85%
Bill Campbell Other 0%
Joseph Canciamilla Other 69%
Dennis Cardoza Other 69%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 85%
Edward Chavez Other 71%
Rebecca Cohn Other 69%
Dave Cox Other 0%
Lynn Daucher Other 7%
Manny Diaz Other 92%
Richard Dickerson Other 0%
Joseph Dunn Other 100%
John Anthony Dutra Other 80%
Martha Escutia Other 100%
Liz Figueroa Other 100%
Marco Antonio Firebaugh Other 92%
Dean Florez Other 100%
Dario Frommer Other 71%
Jackie Goldberg Other 100%
Tom Harman Other 0%
Sally Havice Other 100%
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 0%
Robert Hertzberg Other 92%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 0%
Jerome Horton Other 85%
K. Maurice Johannessen Other 0%
Ross Johnson Other 0%
Betty Karnette Other 100%
Fred Keeley Other 100%
Christine Kehoe Other 100%
David Kelley Other 0%
William Knight Other 0%
Sheila Kuehl Other 100%
Jay La Suer Other 0%
Lynne Leach Other 8%
Bill Leonard Other 7%
Robert Leslie Other 0%
John Longville Other 100%
Michael Machado Other 62%
Ken Maddox Other 8%
Abel Maldonado Other 8%
Bob Margett Other 0%
Barbara Matthews Other 69%
Bruce McPherson Other 15%
Carole Migden Other 100%
William Phillip Morrow Other 0%
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 15%
Kevin Murray Other 100%
George Nakano Other 100%
Joseph Nation Other 77%
Jack O'Connell Other 100%
Jenny Oropeza Other 92%
Deborah Ortiz Other 100%
Robert Pacheco Other 0%
Rod Pacheco Other 0%
Louis Papan Other 46%
Steve Peace Other 71%
Don Perata Other 85%
Anthony Pescetti Other 15%
Richard Polanco Other 92%
Charles Poochigian Other 0%
Sarah Reyes Other 92%
Keith Stuart Richman Other 0%
Gloria Romero Other 100%
George Runner, Jr. Other 0%
Simón Salinas Other 85%
Jack Scott Other 85%
Kevin Shelley Other 100%
Byron Sher Other 93%
Saren Simitian Other 92%
Nell Soto Other 100%
Tony Strickland Other 0%
Virginia Strom-Martin Other 100%
Helen Thomson Other 85%
John Vasconcellos Other 85%
Edward Vincent Other 100%
Carl Washington Other 100%
Howard Wayne Other 87%
Herb Wesson, Jr. Other 100%
Patricia Wiggins Other 93%
Phillip Wyman Other 0%
Charlene Zettel Other 0%

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