Rating Group: Environment California

2009 Positions

Issues: Environment
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-2 Jared Huffman D 100%
CA U.S. House-8 Paul Cook R 8%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 0%
CA U.S. House-26 Julia Brownley D 92%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 40%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 77%
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-4 Mariko Yamada D 92%
CA State Assembly-15 Nancy Skinner D 100%
CA State Assembly-16 Joan Buchanan D 83%
CA State Assembly-17 Tom Ammiano D 92%
CA State Assembly-26 Connie Conway R 8%
CA State Assembly-28 Paul Fong D 92%
CA State Assembly-42 Brian Nestande R 8%
CA State Assembly-45 Bob Blumenfield D 92%
CA State Assembly-48 Roger Hernandez D 69%
CA State Assembly-53 John Pérez D 85%
CA State Assembly-55 Curt Hagman R 0%
CA State Assembly-56 V. Pérez D 62%
CA State Assembly-64 Isadore Hall III D 62%
CA State Assembly-70 Bonnie Lowenthal D 92%
CA State Assembly-73 Diane Harkey R 0%
CA State Senate-1 Ted Gaines R 0%
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 92%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 100%
CA State Senate-4 Jim Nielsen R 0%
CA State Senate-5 Cathleen Galgiani D 62%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 70%
CA State Senate-7 Mark DeSaulnier D 100%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 100%
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 90%
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 100%
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100%
CA State Senate-13 Gerald Hill D 92%
CA State Senate-14 Thomas Berryhill R 8%
CA State Senate-15 James Beall, Jr. D 100%
CA State Senate-17 Bill Monning D 100%
CA State Senate-18 Jean Fuller R 0%
CA State Senate-20 Alex Padilla D 90%
CA State Senate-21 Stephen Knight R 0%
CA State Senate-22 Kevin de Leon D 92%
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 8%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 70%
CA State Senate-26 Curren Price, Jr. D 89%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100%
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 92%
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 10%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 70%
CA State Senate-32 Norma Torres D 69%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 30%
CA State Senate-35 Roderick Wright D 20%
CA State Senate-36 Joel Anderson R 0%
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 10%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 10%
CA State Senate-39 Martin Block D 91%
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 77%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 10%
CA Council Member-2 Paul Krekorian D 92%
CA Council Member-7 Felipe Fuentes D 58%
CA Council Member-At-Large David Cogdill R 0%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 92%
Samuel Aanestad Other 10%
Anthony Adams Other 15%
Elaine Alquist Other 90%
Juan Arambula Other 69%
Roy Ashburn Other 10%
Bill Berryhill Other 8%
Sam Blakeslee Other 38%
Anna Caballero Other 69%
Charles Calderon Other 54%
Amina Carter Other 85%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 100%
Joe Coto Other 92%
Dave Cox Other 10%
Mike Davis Other 85%
Hector De La Torre Other 85%
Charles DeVore Other 0%
Denise Ducheny Other 80%
Robert Dutton Other 10%
Michael Duvall Other 0%
Mike Eng Other 92%
Mike Feuer Other 100%
Nathan Fletcher Other 8%
Dean Florez Other 100%
Warren Furutani Other 69%
Martin Garrick Other 0%
Danny Gilmore Other 8%
Tom Harman Other 20%
Mary Hayashi Other 85%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 10%
Alyson Huber Other 46%
Kevin Jeffries Other 0%
Christine Kehoe Other 100%
Fiona Ma Other 85%
Abel Maldonado Other 50%
Tony Mendoza Other 62%
Jeff Miller Other 0%
Pedro Nava Other 92%
Roger Niello Other 0%
Jenny Oropeza Other 80%
Anthony Portantino, Jr. Other 92%
Gloria Romero Other 100%
George Runner, Jr. Other 10%
Ira Ruskin Other 100%
Mary Salas Other 92%
Lori Saldaña Other 92%
Jim Silva Other 0%
Saren Simitian Other 100%
Cameron Smyth Other 8%
Jose Solorio Other 46%
Tony Strickland Other 30%
Audra Strickland Other 15%
Sandré Swanson Other 100%
Alberto Torrico Other 85%
Van Tran Other 0%
Mike Villines Other 8%
Patricia Wiggins Other 100%

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