Rating Group: California League of Conservation Voters

2009 Positions

Issues: Environment
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-2 Jared Huffman D 100%
CA U.S. House-8 Paul Cook R 14%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 19%
CA U.S. House-26 Julia Brownley D 100%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 57%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 90%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 100%
CA State Assembly-3 Dan Logue R 5%
CA State Assembly-4 Mariko Yamada D 95%
CA State Assembly-15 Nancy Skinner D 100%
CA State Assembly-16 Joan Buchanan D 95%
CA State Assembly-17 Tom Ammiano D 100%
CA State Assembly-26 Connie Conway R 9%
CA State Assembly-28 Paul Fong D 90%
CA State Assembly-42 Brian Nestande R 14%
CA State Assembly-45 Bob Blumenfield D 95%
CA State Assembly-53 John Pérez D 91%
CA State Assembly-55 Curt Hagman R 10%
CA State Assembly-56 V. Pérez D 52%
CA State Assembly-62 Steven Bradford D 88%
CA State Assembly-64 Isadore Hall III D 71%
CA State Assembly-70 Bonnie Lowenthal D 100%
CA State Assembly-73 Diane Harkey R 14%
CA State Senate-1 Ted Gaines R 0%
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 90%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 90%
CA State Senate-4 Jim Nielsen R 9%
CA State Senate-5 Cathleen Galgiani D 48%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 79%
CA State Senate-7 Mark DeSaulnier D 90%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 95%
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 95%
CA State Senate-14 Thomas Berryhill R 10%
CA State Senate-15 James Beall, Jr. D 95%
CA State Senate-17 Bill Monning D 100%
CA State Senate-18 Jean Fuller R 14%
CA State Senate-20 Alex Padilla D 81%
CA State Senate-21 Stephen Knight R 5%
CA State Senate-22 Kevin de Leon D 95%
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 24%
CA State Senate-24 Edward Hernandez D 76%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 81%
CA State Senate-26 Curren Price, Jr. D 90%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100%
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 90%
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 5%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 67%
CA State Senate-32 Norma Torres D 76%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 29%
CA State Senate-35 Roderick Wright D 38%
CA State Senate-36 Joel Anderson R 10%
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 5%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 10%
CA State Senate-39 Martin Block D 89%
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 95%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 5%
CA Council Member-2 Paul Krekorian D 100%
CA Council Member-7 Felipe Fuentes D 68%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 82%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 5%
Samuel Aanestad Other 10%
Anthony Adams Other 19%
Elaine Alquist Other 90%
Juan Arambula Other 86%
Roy Ashburn Other 5%
Bill Berryhill Other 24%
Sam Blakeslee Other 33%
Anna Caballero Other 81%
Charles Calderon Other 62%
Amina Carter Other 81%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 86%
Joe Coto Other 86%
Dave Cox Other 5%
Mike Davis Other 86%
Hector De La Torre Other 90%
Charles DeVore Other 5%
Denise Ducheny Other 71%
Robert Dutton Other 10%
Michael Duvall Other 0%
Mike Eng Other 90%
Mike Feuer Other 100%
Nathan Fletcher Other 33%
Dean Florez Other 70%
Warren Furutani Other 81%
Martin Garrick Other 10%
Danny Gilmore Other 24%
Tom Harman Other 0%
Mary Hayashi Other 86%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 5%
Alyson Huber Other 48%
Kevin Jeffries Other 10%
Christine Kehoe Other 95%
Fiona Ma Other 90%
Abel Maldonado Other 38%
Tony Mendoza Other 62%
Jeff Miller Other 5%
Pedro Nava Other 100%
Roger Niello Other 5%
Jenny Oropeza Other 48%
Anthony Portantino, Jr. Other 90%
Gloria Romero Other 86%
George Runner, Jr. Other 0%
Ira Ruskin Other 95%
Mary Salas Other 100%
Lori Saldaña Other 100%
Arnold Schwarzenegger Other 28%
Jim Silva Other 5%
Saren Simitian Other 100%
Cameron Smyth Other 24%
Jose Solorio Other 64%
Tony Strickland Other 19%
Audra Strickland Other 18%
Sandré Swanson Other 86%
Alberto Torrico Other 90%
Van Tran Other 19%
Mike Villines Other 5%
Patricia Wiggins Other 100%

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