Rating Group: California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO

2009 Committee Votes Score

Issues: Labor Unions
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-26 Julia Brownley D 100
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 100
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 100
CA State Assembly-3 Dan Logue R 0
CA State Assembly-15 Nancy Skinner D 100
CA State Assembly-16 Joan Buchanan D 100
CA State Assembly-17 Tom Ammiano D 100
CA State Assembly-26 Connie Conway R 33
CA State Assembly-42 Brian Nestande R 0
CA State Assembly-53 John Pérez D 100
CA State Assembly-56 V. Pérez D 100
CA State Assembly-64 Isadore Hall III D 50
CA State Assembly-70 Bonnie Lowenthal D 100
CA State Senate-1 Ted Gaines R 0
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 100
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 100
CA State Senate-4 Jim Nielsen R 50
CA State Senate-7 Mark DeSaulnier D 100
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 100
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 67
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100
CA State Senate-15 James Beall, Jr. D 100
CA State Senate-17 Bill Monning D 100
CA State Senate-20 Alex Padilla D 50
CA State Senate-21 Stephen Knight R 33
CA State Senate-22 Kevin de Leon D 100
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 0
CA State Senate-24 Edward Hernandez D 67
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 100
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 100
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 50
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 67
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 0
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 22
CA State Senate-39 Martin Block D 50
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 100
CA Council Member-2 Paul Krekorian D 100
CA Council Member-7 Felipe Fuentes D 100
CA Council Member-At-Large David Cogdill R 20
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 100
Samuel Aanestad Other 0
Anthony Adams Other 0
Elaine Alquist Other 100
Juan Arambula Other 0
Bill Berryhill Other 50
Anna Caballero Other 100
Amina Carter Other 50
Gilbert Cedillo Other 100
Dave Cox Other 0
Mike Davis Other 100
Hector De La Torre Other 100
Denise Ducheny Other 100
Michael Duvall Other 0
Mike Eng Other 100
Mike Feuer Other 100
Nathan Fletcher Other 0
Dean Florez Other 80
Warren Furutani Other 86
Martin Garrick Other 0
Tom Harman Other 25
Mary Hayashi Other 0
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 0
Christine Kehoe Other 100
Fiona Ma Other 100
Pedro Nava Other 100
Jenny Oropeza Other 0
Anthony Portantino, Jr. Other 100
Gloria Romero Other 100
George Runner, Jr. Other 0
Mary Salas Other 50
Jose Solorio Other 0
Tony Strickland Other 0
Audra Strickland Other 50
Alberto Torrico Other 100
Van Tran Other 50

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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