Rating Group: California National Organization for Women

2001 Positions on Women's Rights

Issues: Women
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 26
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 86
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 63
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 100
CA U.S. House-29 Tony Cardenas D 94
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 100
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 36
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100
CA U.S. House-51 Juan Vargas D 100
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 91
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 100
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 92
CA State Senate-19 Hannah-Beth Jackson D 104
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 97
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 75
CA State Senate-35 Roderick Wright D 96
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 42
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 93
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 92
CA Supervisor-4 Dick Monteith Other 26
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 100
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 44
Samuel Aanestad Other 42
Richard Ackerman Other 14
Richard Alarcón Other 97
Deirdre Alpert Other 96
Elaine Alquist Other 100
Dion Aroner Other 97
Roy Ashburn Other 28
Patricia Bates Other 56
James Battin Other 29
Russell Bogh Other 57
Mike Briggs Other 36
James Brulte Other 26
John Burton Other 100
Thomas Calderon Other 94
Bill Campbell Other 36
Joseph Canciamilla Other 97
Dennis Cardoza Other 75
Gilbert Cedillo Other 76
Edward Chavez Other 100
Rebecca Cohn Other 92
Dave Cox Other 42
Lynn Daucher Other 56
Manny Diaz Other 100
Richard Dickerson Other 47
Joseph Dunn Other 94
John Anthony Dutra Other 97
Martha Escutia Other 77
Liz Figueroa Other 100
Marco Antonio Firebaugh Other 99
Dean Florez Other 67
Dario Frommer Other 92
Jackie Goldberg Other 101
Tom Harman Other 47
Sally Havice Other 83
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 23
Robert Hertzberg Other 94
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 36
Jerome Horton Other 86
K. Maurice Johannessen Other 34
Ross Johnson Other 23
Betty Karnette Other 101
Fred Keeley Other 100
Christine Kehoe Other 100
David Kelley Other 58
William Knight Other 20
Sheila Kuehl Other 104
Jay La Suer Other 36
Lynne Leach Other 58
Bill Leonard Other 33
Robert Leslie Other 39
John Longville Other 100
Michael Machado Other 71
Ken Maddox Other 50
Abel Maldonado Other 75
Bob Margett Other 37
Barbara Matthews Other 81
Bruce McPherson Other 54
Carole Migden Other 101
William Phillip Morrow Other 26
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 39
Kevin Murray Other 93
George Nakano Other 83
Joseph Nation Other 100
Jack O'Connell Other 83
Thomas Oller Other 26
Jenny Oropeza Other 94
Deborah Ortiz Other 93
Robert Pacheco Other 50
Rod Pacheco Other 50
Louis Papan Other 92
Steve Peace Other 57
Don Perata Other 74
Anthony Pescetti Other 53
Richard Polanco Other 77
Charles Poochigian Other 20
Sarah Reyes Other 78
Keith Stuart Richman Other 69
Gloria Romero Other 103
George Runner, Jr. Other 39
Simón Salinas Other 97
Jack Scott Other 100
Kevin Shelley Other 94
Byron Sher Other 91
Saren Simitian Other 97
Nell Soto Other 97
Tony Strickland Other 50
Virginia Strom-Martin Other 101
Helen Thomson Other 97
John Vasconcellos Other 80
Edward Vincent Other 91
Carl Washington Other 75
Howard Wayne Other 88
Herb Wesson, Jr. Other 103
Patricia Wiggins Other 100
Phillip Wyman Other 31
Charlene Zettel Other 50

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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