Rating Group: California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO

2008 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-2 Jared Huffman D 100%
CA U.S. House-8 Paul Cook R 20%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 7%
CA U.S. House-26 Julia Brownley D 100%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 80%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 95%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100%
CA State Senate-1 Ted Gaines R 10%
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 95%
CA State Senate-5 Cathleen Galgiani D 80%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 93%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 100%
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 100%
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 100%
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100%
CA State Senate-14 Thomas Berryhill R 17%
CA State Senate-15 James Beall, Jr. D 100%
CA State Senate-18 Jean Fuller R 10%
CA State Senate-20 Alex Padilla D 87%
CA State Senate-22 Kevin de Leon D 95%
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 15%
CA State Senate-24 Edward Hernandez D 100%
CA State Senate-26 Curren Price, Jr. D 100%
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 95%
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 15%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 80%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 67%
CA State Senate-36 Joel Anderson R 15%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 14%
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 100%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 10%
CA Council Member-2 Paul Krekorian D 85%
CA Council Member-7 Felipe Fuentes D 95%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 100%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 13%
Samuel Aanestad Other 0%
Anthony Adams Other 17%
Elaine Alquist Other 93%
Juan Arambula Other 80%
Roy Ashburn Other 7%
Sam Blakeslee Other 15%
Anna Caballero Other 94%
Charles Calderon Other 82%
Amina Carter Other 95%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 100%
Joe Coto Other 95%
Dave Cox Other 7%
Mike Davis Other 95%
Hector De La Torre Other 90%
Charles DeVore Other 15%
Denise Ducheny Other 60%
Robert Dutton Other 20%
Michael Duvall Other 10%
Mike Eng Other 100%
Mike Feuer Other 100%
Dean Florez Other 86%
Warren Furutani Other 100%
Martin Garrick Other 15%
Tom Harman Other 13%
Mary Hayashi Other 100%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 0%
Kevin Jeffries Other 15%
Christine Kehoe Other 100%
Fiona Ma Other 95%
Abel Maldonado Other 29%
Tony Mendoza Other 100%
Pedro Nava Other 100%
Roger Niello Other 15%
Jenny Oropeza Other 93%
Anthony Portantino, Jr. Other 95%
Gloria Romero Other 100%
George Runner, Jr. Other 14%
Ira Ruskin Other 90%
Mary Salas Other 100%
Lori Saldaña Other 95%
Jim Silva Other 16%
Saren Simitian Other 93%
Cameron Smyth Other 15%
Jose Solorio Other 85%
Audra Strickland Other 15%
Sandré Swanson Other 100%
Alberto Torrico Other 95%
Van Tran Other 16%
Mike Villines Other 15%
Patricia Wiggins Other 93%

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