Rating Group: California League of Conservation Voters

2005 Positions

Issues: Environment
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 0%
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 0%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 9%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 83%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 0%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 100%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 56%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 100%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100%
CA U.S. House-51 Juan Vargas D 68%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 100%
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 100%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 70%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 100%
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 100%
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100%
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 5%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 83%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100%
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 0%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 58%
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 0%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 0%
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 87%
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 95%
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 100%
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 100%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 0%
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 95%
CA Council Member-At-Large Joe Baca, Jr. Other 70%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 100%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 5%
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 0%
Samuel Aanestad Other 0%
Richard Ackerman Other 0%
Gregory Aghazarian Other 0%
Richard Alarcón Other 96%
Elaine Alquist Other 100%
Juan Arambula Other 58%
Roy Ashburn Other 4%
James Battin Other 0%
Patty Berg Other 100%
Rudy Bermúdez Other 100%
Sam Blakeslee Other 11%
Russell Bogh Other 5%
Joseph Canciamilla Other 58%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 91%
Edward Chavez Other 74%
Rebecca Cohn Other 58%
Joe Coto Other 68%
Dave Cox Other 9%
Lynn Daucher Other 15%
Hector De La Torre Other 95%
Charles DeVore Other 0%
Denise Ducheny Other 65%
Joseph Dunn Other 96%
Robert Dutton Other 4%
Mervyn Dymally Other 95%
Martha Escutia Other 96%
Liz Figueroa Other 96%
Dean Florez Other 74%
Dario Frommer Other 89%
Bonnie Garcia Other 6%
Jackie Goldberg Other 100%
Tom Harman Other 16%
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 0%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 0%
Jerome Horton Other 74%
Shirley Horton Other 30%
Guy Houston Other 0%
Betty Karnette Other 95%
Richard Keene Other 5%
Christine Kehoe Other 100%
Johan Klehs Other 100%
Sheila Kuehl Other 100%
John Laird Other 100%
Jay La Suer Other 5%
Robert Leslie Other 5%
Lloyd Levine Other 100%
Sally Lieber Other 100%
Michael Machado Other 57%
Abel Maldonado Other 22%
Bob Margett Other 5%
Barbara Matthews Other 35%
Bill Maze Other 0%
Carole Migden Other 100%
Cindy Montañez Other 100%
William Phillip Morrow Other 4%
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 0%
Eugene Mullin Other 100%
Kevin Murray Other 68%
Joseph Nation Other 100%
Pedro Nava Other 95%
Roger Niello Other 0%
Fabian Núñez Other 100%
Jenny Oropeza Other 95%
Deborah Ortiz Other 96%
Nicole Parra Other 45%
Don Perata Other 96%
George Plescia Other 0%
Charles Poochigian Other 9%
Keith Stuart Richman Other 16%
Gloria Romero Other 95%
George Runner, Jr. Other 0%
Sharon Runner Other 0%
Ira Ruskin Other 100%
Lori Saldaña Other 100%
Simón Salinas Other 75%
Jack Scott Other 96%
Saren Simitian Other 100%
Nell Soto Other 91%
Todd Spitzer Other 11%
Audra Strickland Other 0%
Alberto Torrico Other 50%
Van Tran Other 5%
Thomas Umberg Other 74%
Mike Villines Other 0%
Edward Vincent Other 100%

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