Rating Group: Alliance for Better Business

2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 0%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 100%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 100%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 88%
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 88%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 93%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 94%
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 100%
CA State Senate-19 Hannah-Beth Jackson D 100%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 100%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 94%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 73%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 63%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 0%
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 100%
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 100%
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 100%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 86%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 19%
Samuel Aanestad Other 13%
Richard Ackerman Other 0%
Richard Alarcón Other 100%
Deirdre Alpert Other 93%
Roy Ashburn Other 13%
Patricia Bates Other 0%
James Battin Other 0%
Russell Bogh Other 6%
James Brulte Other 0%
John Burton Other 93%
Joseph Canciamilla Other 69%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 93%
Edward Chavez Other 81%
Rebecca Cohn Other 94%
Dave Cox Other 6%
Lynn Daucher Other 0%
Manny Diaz Other 94%
Joseph Dunn Other 93%
John Anthony Dutra Other 75%
Martha Escutia Other 79%
Liz Figueroa Other 100%
Marco Antonio Firebaugh Other 88%
Dean Florez Other 81%
Dario Frommer Other 81%
Jackie Goldberg Other 100%
Tom Harman Other 6%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 6%
Jerome Horton Other 88%
Betty Karnette Other 100%
Christine Kehoe Other 94%
William Knight Other 0%
Sheila Kuehl Other 100%
Jay La Suer Other 6%
Robert Leslie Other 6%
John Longville Other 100%
Michael Machado Other 64%
Ken Maddox Other 6%
Abel Maldonado Other 6%
Bob Margett Other 0%
Barbara Matthews Other 50%
Bruce McPherson Other 7%
William Phillip Morrow Other 0%
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 0%
Kevin Murray Other 85%
George Nakano Other 63%
Joseph Nation Other 88%
Thomas Oller Other 0%
Jenny Oropeza Other 94%
Deborah Ortiz Other 79%
Robert Pacheco Other 0%
Don Perata Other 93%
Charles Poochigian Other 0%
Sarah Reyes Other 100%
Keith Stuart Richman Other 0%
Gloria Romero Other 100%
George Runner, Jr. Other 0%
Simón Salinas Other 94%
Jack Scott Other 79%
Byron Sher Other 93%
Saren Simitian Other 88%
Nell Soto Other 93%
Tony Strickland Other 6%
John Vasconcellos Other 93%
Edward Vincent Other 83%
Herb Wesson, Jr. Other 94%
Patricia Wiggins Other 94%

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