Rating Group: Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California

2007 Positions on Reproductive Rights

Issues: Abortion
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 0
CA U.S. House-2 Jared Huffman D 100
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 0
CA U.S. House-8 Paul Cook R 0
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 0
CA U.S. House-26 Julia Brownley D 100
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 100
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 100
CA U.S. House-47 Alan 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-5 Cathleen Galgiani D 88
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 100
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 100
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100
CA State Senate-14 Thomas Berryhill R 0
CA State Senate-15 James Beall, Jr. D 100
CA State Senate-18 Jean Fuller R 0
CA State Senate-20 Alex Padilla D 100
CA State Senate-22 Kevin de Leon D 100
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 13
CA State Senate-24 Edward Hernandez D 100
CA State Senate-26 Curren Price, Jr. D 100
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 88
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 0
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 100
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 60
CA State Senate-36 Joel Anderson R 0
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 0
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 0
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 100
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 100
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 0
CA Council Member-2 Paul Krekorian D 100
CA Council Member-7 Felipe Fuentes D 100
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 100
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 0
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 0
Samuel Aanestad Other 20
Richard Ackerman Other 0
Anthony Adams Other 0
Gregory Aghazarian Other 0
Elaine Alquist Other 100
Juan Arambula Other 88
Roy Ashburn Other 0
James Battin Other 20
Patty Berg Other 100
Sam Blakeslee Other 13
Anna Caballero Other 100
Charles Calderon Other 100
Amina Carter Other 100
Gilbert Cedillo Other 100
Joe Coto Other 100
Dave Cox Other 0
Mike Davis Other 100
Hector De La Torre Other 100
Charles DeVore Other 0
Denise Ducheny Other 80
Robert Dutton Other 0
Michael Duvall Other 0
Mervyn Dymally Other 100
Mike Eng Other 100
Mike Feuer Other 100
Dean Florez Other 80
Bonnie Garcia Other 13
Martin Garrick Other 13
Tom Harman Other 0
Mary Hayashi Other 100
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 0
Shirley Horton Other 25
Guy Houston Other 0
Kevin Jeffries Other 0
Betty Karnette Other 100
Richard Keene Other 0
Christine Kehoe Other 100
Sheila Kuehl Other 100
John Laird Other 100
Lloyd Levine Other 100
Sally Lieber Other 100
Fiona Ma Other 100
Michael Machado Other 80
Abel Maldonado Other 40
Bob Margett Other 20
Bill Maze Other 0
Tony Mendoza Other 100
Carole Migden Other 100
Eugene Mullin Other 100
Pedro Nava Other 100
Roger Niello Other 0
Fabian Núñez Other 100
Jenny Oropeza Other 100
Nicole Parra Other 50
Don Perata Other 100
George Plescia Other 0
Anthony Portantino, Jr. Other 100
Laura Richardson Other 100
Gloria Romero Other 100
George Runner, Jr. Other 0
Sharon Runner Other 0
Ira Ruskin Other 100
Mary Salas Other 88
Lori Saldaña Other 100
Jack Scott Other 100
Jim Silva Other 0
Saren Simitian Other 100
Cameron Smyth Other 0
Jose Solorio Other 100
Nell Soto Other 100
Todd Spitzer Other 0
Audra Strickland Other 0
Sandré Swanson Other 100
Alberto Torrico Other 100
Van Tran Other 0
Mike Villines Other 0
Edward Vincent Other 50
Patricia Wiggins Other 100

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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