Rating Group: Applied Research Center

2009 Health Equity Score

State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-2 Jared Huffman D 100%
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 80%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass 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-4 Mariko Yamada D 100%
CA State Assembly-15 Nancy Skinner D 100%
CA State Assembly-16 Joan Buchanan D 80%
CA State Assembly-17 Tom Ammiano D 100%
CA State Assembly-26 Connie Conway R 20%
CA State Assembly-28 Paul Fong D 100%
CA State Assembly-42 Brian Nestande R 20%
CA State Assembly-45 Bob Blumenfield D 100%
CA State Assembly-52 Norma Torres D 100%
CA State Assembly-53 John Pérez D 100%
CA State Assembly-55 Curt Hagman R 0%
CA State Assembly-56 V. Pérez D 100%
CA State Assembly-62 Steven Bradford D 0%
CA State Assembly-64 Isadore Hall III D 100%
CA State Assembly-70 Bonnie Lowenthal D 100%
CA State Assembly-73 Diane Harkey R 0%
CA State Senate-1 Ted Gaines R 20%
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 100%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 100%
CA State Senate-4 Jim Nielsen R 20%
CA State Senate-5 Cathleen Galgiani D 60%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 100%
CA State Senate-7 Mark DeSaulnier D 80%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 80%
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-13 Gerald Hill D 100%
CA State Senate-14 Thomas Berryhill R 20%
CA State Senate-15 James Beall, Jr. D 100%
CA State Senate-17 Bill Monning D 100%
CA State Senate-18 Jean Fuller R 20%
CA State Senate-20 Alex Padilla D 80%
CA State Senate-21 Stephen Knight R 0%
CA State Senate-22 Kevin de Leon D 100%
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 40%
CA State Senate-24 Edward Hernandez D 100%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 100%
CA State Senate-26 Curren Price, Jr. D 80%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100%
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 100%
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-35 Roderick Wright D 80%
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 State Senate-39 Martin Block D 100%
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones 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%
Samuel Aanestad Other 0%
Anthony Adams Other 40%
Elaine Alquist Other 100%
Juan Arambula Other 100%
Roy Ashburn Other 20%
Bill Berryhill Other 20%
Sam Blakeslee Other 0%
Anna Caballero Other 100%
Charles Calderon Other 60%
Amina Carter Other 100%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 80%
Joe Coto Other 100%
Dave Cox Other 40%
Mike Davis Other 80%
Hector De La Torre Other 100%
Charles DeVore Other 0%
Denise Ducheny Other 80%
Robert Dutton Other 0%
Michael Duvall Other 0%
Mike Eng Other 100%
Mike Feuer Other 100%
Nathan Fletcher Other 40%
Dean Florez Other 80%
Warren Furutani Other 100%
Martin Garrick Other 20%
Danny Gilmore Other 20%
Tom Harman Other 0%
Mary Hayashi Other 100%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 0%
Alyson Huber Other 80%
Kevin Jeffries Other 20%
Christine Kehoe Other 100%
Fiona Ma Other 100%
Abel Maldonado Other 60%
Tony Mendoza Other 100%
Jeff Miller Other 0%
Pedro Nava Other 100%
Roger Niello Other 20%
Jenny Oropeza Other 40%
Anthony Portantino, Jr. Other 100%
Gloria Romero Other 100%
George Runner, Jr. Other 0%
Ira Ruskin Other 100%
Mary Salas Other 100%
Lori Saldaña Other 100%
Jim Silva Other 0%
Saren Simitian Other 100%
Cameron Smyth Other 0%
Jose Solorio Other 100%
Tony Strickland Other 40%
Audra Strickland Other 0%
Sandré Swanson Other 100%
Alberto Torrico Other 100%
Van Tran Other 0%
Mike Villines Other 20%
Patricia Wiggins Other 100%

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