Rating Group: California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO

2007 Positions on Workplace Rights

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 12
CA U.S. House-2 Jared Huffman D 97
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 3
CA U.S. House-8 Paul Cook R 12
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 10
CA U.S. House-26 Julia Brownley D 100
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 88
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 85
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 97
CA State Senate-1 Ted Gaines R 21
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 91
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 97
CA State Senate-5 Cathleen Galgiani D 61
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 100
CA State Senate-7 Mark DeSaulnier D 100
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 100
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 94
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 100
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100
CA State Senate-14 Thomas Berryhill R 12
CA State Senate-15 James Beall, Jr. D 88
CA State Senate-18 Jean Fuller R 12
CA State Senate-20 Alex Padilla D 87
CA State Senate-22 Kevin de Leon D 94
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 12
CA State Senate-24 Edward Hernandez D 100
CA State Senate-26 Curren Price, Jr. D 91
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 88
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 12
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 90
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 53
CA State Senate-36 Joel Anderson R 12
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 9
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 10
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 100
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 80
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 12
CA Council Member-2 Paul Krekorian D 94
CA Council Member-7 Felipe Fuentes D 83
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 87
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 20
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 12
Samuel Aanestad Other 3
Richard Ackerman Other 7
Anthony Adams Other 12
Gregory Aghazarian Other 12
Elaine Alquist Other 87
Juan Arambula Other 76
Roy Ashburn Other 20
James Battin Other 10
Patty Berg Other 94
Sam Blakeslee Other 12
Anna Caballero Other 85
Charles Calderon Other 79
Amina Carter Other 88
Gilbert Cedillo Other 97
Joe Coto Other 88
Dave Cox Other 7
Mike Davis Other 85
Hector De La Torre Other 94
Charles DeVore Other 9
Denise Ducheny Other 77
Robert Dutton Other 13
Michael Duvall Other 12
Mervyn Dymally Other 97
Mike Eng Other 100
Mike Feuer Other 94
Dean Florez Other 83
Bonnie Garcia Other 12
Martin Garrick Other 12
Tom Harman Other 7
Mary Hayashi Other 88
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 7
Shirley Horton Other 12
Guy Houston Other 12
Kevin Jeffries Other 12
Betty Karnette Other 91
Richard Keene Other 12
Christine Kehoe Other 100
Sheila Kuehl Other 97
John Laird Other 94
Lloyd Levine Other 97
Sally Lieber Other 88
Fiona Ma Other 100
Michael Machado Other 53
Abel Maldonado Other 10
Bob Margett Other 7
Bill Maze Other 12
Tony Mendoza Other 88
Carole Migden Other 100
Eugene Mullin Other 91
Pedro Nava Other 91
Roger Niello Other 9
Fabian Núñez Other 88
Jenny Oropeza Other 83
Nicole Parra Other 67
Don Perata Other 73
George Plescia Other 12
Anthony Portantino, Jr. Other 97
Laura Richardson Other 94
Gloria Romero Other 97
George Runner, Jr. Other 7
Sharon Runner Other 9
Ira Ruskin Other 100
Mary Salas Other 82
Lori Saldaña Other 100
Jack Scott Other 93
Jim Silva Other 12
Saren Simitian Other 77
Cameron Smyth Other 9
Jose Solorio Other 85
Nell Soto Other 75
Todd Spitzer Other 12
Audra Strickland Other 9
Sandré Swanson Other 100
Alberto Torrico Other 85
Van Tran Other 12
Mike Villines Other 12
Edward Vincent Other 95
Patricia Wiggins Other 100

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