Rating Group: California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO

2003 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 0%
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 4%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 8%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 88%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 4%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 100%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 82%
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 100%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 88%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 82%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 100%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 93%
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 93%
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 96%
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100%
CA State Senate-19 Hannah-Beth Jackson D 96%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 79%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 96%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 89%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 89%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 0%
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 88%
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 100%
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 96%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 0%
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 96%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 96%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 0%
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 0%
Samuel Aanestad Other 4%
Richard Ackerman Other 0%
Gregory Aghazarian Other 4%
Richard Alarcón Other 96%
Deirdre Alpert Other 96%
Roy Ashburn Other 0%
Patricia Bates Other 4%
James Battin Other 0%
Patty Berg Other 93%
Rudy Bermúdez Other 100%
Russell Bogh Other 0%
James Brulte Other 4%
John Burton Other 100%
Joseph Canciamilla Other 64%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 96%
Edward Chavez Other 96%
Rebecca Cohn Other 89%
Dave Cox Other 0%
Lynn Daucher Other 7%
Manny Diaz Other 100%
Denise Ducheny Other 96%
Joseph Dunn Other 96%
John Anthony Dutra Other 89%
Robert Dutton Other 0%
Mervyn Dymally Other 100%
Martha Escutia Other 88%
Liz Figueroa Other 100%
Marco Antonio Firebaugh Other 100%
Dean Florez Other 83%
Dario Frommer Other 93%
Bonnie Garcia Other 4%
Jackie Goldberg Other 100%
Tom Harman Other 0%
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 0%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 0%
Jerome Horton Other 86%
Shirley Horton Other 7%
Guy Houston Other 0%
Ross Johnson Other 5%
Betty Karnette Other 92%
Richard Keene Other 4%
Christine Kehoe Other 96%
William Knight Other 0%
Sheila Kuehl Other 100%
John Laird Other 100%
Jay La Suer Other 0%
Robert Leslie Other 0%
Lloyd Levine Other 96%
Sally Lieber Other 100%
John Longville Other 93%
Michael Machado Other 71%
Ken Maddox Other 15%
Abel Maldonado Other 11%
Bob Margett Other 0%
Barbara Matthews Other 54%
Bill Maze Other 0%
Bruce McPherson Other 4%
Cindy Montañez Other 96%
William Phillip Morrow Other 0%
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 0%
Eugene Mullin Other 100%
Kevin Murray Other 100%
George Nakano Other 89%
Joseph Nation Other 96%
Fabian Núñez Other 100%
Thomas Oller Other 0%
Jenny Oropeza Other 100%
Deborah Ortiz Other 92%
Robert Pacheco Other 4%
Nicole Parra Other 82%
Don Perata Other 100%
George Plescia Other 4%
Charles Poochigian Other 0%
Sarah Reyes Other 82%
Keith Stuart Richman Other 4%
Gloria Romero Other 100%
Sharon Runner Other 0%
Simón Salinas Other 96%
Steve Samuelian Other 4%
Jack Scott Other 58%
Byron Sher Other 96%
Saren Simitian Other 100%
Nell Soto Other 88%
Todd Spitzer Other 7%
Tony Strickland Other 4%
John Vasconcellos Other 81%
Edward Vincent Other 84%
Herb Wesson, Jr. Other 100%
Patricia Wiggins Other 96%

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