Rating Group: California National Organization for Women

2003 Positions

Issues: Women
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 22%
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 12%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 12%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 88%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 25%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 100%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 100%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 9%
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 96%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 100%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 97%
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-19 Hannah-Beth Jackson D 100%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 97%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 94%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 72%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 28%
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 88%
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 100%
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 97%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 22%
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 97%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 84%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 25%
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 22%
Samuel Aanestad Other 8%
Richard Ackerman Other 8%
Gregory Aghazarian Other 22%
Richard Alarcón Other 96%
Deirdre Alpert Other 92%
Roy Ashburn Other 8%
Patricia Bates Other 25%
James Battin Other 8%
Patty Berg Other 100%
Rudy Bermúdez Other 100%
Russell Bogh Other 25%
James Brulte Other 8%
John Burton Other 100%
Joseph Canciamilla Other 84%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 96%
Edward Chavez Other 94%
Rebecca Cohn Other 100%
Dave Cox Other 22%
Lynn Daucher Other 31%
Manny Diaz Other 97%
Denise Ducheny Other 92%
Joseph Dunn Other 96%
John Anthony Dutra Other 100%
Robert Dutton Other 25%
Mervyn Dymally Other 94%
Martha Escutia Other 100%
Liz Figueroa Other 96%
Marco Antonio Firebaugh Other 41%
Dean Florez Other 60%
Dario Frommer Other 100%
Bonnie Garcia Other 38%
Jackie Goldberg Other 97%
Tom Harman Other 25%
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 16%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 8%
Jerome Horton Other 81%
Shirley Horton Other 41%
Guy Houston Other 22%
Ross Johnson Other 8%
Betty Karnette Other 100%
Richard Keene Other 16%
Christine Kehoe Other 100%
William Knight Other 8%
Sheila Kuehl Other 100%
John Laird Other 100%
Jay La Suer Other 16%
Robert Leslie Other 9%
Lloyd Levine Other 100%
Sally Lieber Other 100%
John Longville Other 100%
Michael Machado Other 96%
Ken Maddox Other 28%
Abel Maldonado Other 38%
Bob Margett Other 4%
Barbara Matthews Other 72%
Bill Maze Other 25%
Bruce McPherson Other 32%
Cindy Montañez Other 100%
William Phillip Morrow Other 8%
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 16%
Eugene Mullin Other 100%
Kevin Murray Other 96%
George Nakano Other 88%
Joseph Nation Other 100%
Fabian Núñez Other 100%
Thomas Oller Other 8%
Jenny Oropeza Other 88%
Deborah Ortiz Other 92%
Robert Pacheco Other 22%
Nicole Parra Other 81%
Don Perata Other 100%
George Plescia Other 22%
Charles Poochigian Other 8%
Sarah Reyes Other 78%
Keith Stuart Richman Other 41%
Gloria Romero Other 96%
Sharon Runner Other 25%
Simón Salinas Other 91%
Steve Samuelian Other 19%
Jack Scott Other 100%
Byron Sher Other 100%
Saren Simitian Other 100%
Nell Soto Other 100%
Todd Spitzer Other 31%
Tony Strickland Other 22%
John Vasconcellos Other 80%
Edward Vincent Other 68%
Herb Wesson, Jr. Other 94%
Patricia Wiggins Other 100%

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