Rating Group: National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund

2004 Lifetime Score

Issues: Guns
State Office Name Party Rating
SC U.S. House-3 Jeff Duncan R A
SC Lieutenant Governor Glenn McConnell R A+
SC State House-1 William Whitmire R A
SC State House-2 William Sandifer III R A+
SC State House-3 B. R. Skelton R A
SC State House-5 Phillip Owens R A-
SC State House-6 Brian White R A
SC State House-14 Michael Pitts R A+
SC State House-19 Dwight Loftis R A
SC State House-27 Garry Smith R A
SC State House-40 Walton McLeod III D A
SC State House-42 Michael Anthony D A
SC State House-43 Greg Delleney, Jr. R A+
SC State House-46 J. Simrill R A
SC State House-50 Grady Brown D D
SC State House-51 J. David Weeks D ?
SC State House-52 Laurie Funderburk D ?
SC State House-55 Jackie Hayes D ?
SC State House-58 Liston Barfield R A
SC State House-61 Lester Branham, Jr. D ?
SC State House-65 James Lucas R A
SC State House-66 Gilda Cobb-Hunter D D
SC State House-70 Joseph Neal D D
SC State House-72 James Smith, Jr. D ?
SC State House-74 James Rutherford D B+
SC State House-76 Leon Howard D D
SC State House-80 Jimmy Bales D A
SC State House-82 William Clyburn, Sr. D ?
SC State House-84 Roland Smith R A
SC State House-85 Chip Huggins R A+
SC State House-88 McLain Toole R A
SC State House-89 Kenneth Bingham R A
SC State House-91 Lonnie Hosey D ?
SC State House-93 Harry Ott, Jr. D A
SC State House-95 Jerry Govan, Jr. D D
SC State House-99 James Merrill R B+
SC State House-104 Tracy Edge R A
SC State House-107 Alan Clemmons R A
SC State House-109 David Mack III D ?
SC State House-110 Harry Limehouse III R A+
SC State House-113 Seth Whipper D B+
SC State House-114 Robert Harrell, Jr. R A
SC State House-116 Robert Brown D ?
SC State House-118 William Herbkersman R ?
SC State House-122 William Bowers D A
SC State Senate-1 Thomas Alexander R A
SC State Senate-2 Larry Martin R A+
SC State Senate-4 William O'Dell R A
SC State Senate-6 Michael Fair R A
SC State Senate-7 Karl Allen Other ?
SC State Senate-9 Daniel Verdin III R A+
SC State Senate-11 Glenn Reese D A
SC State Senate-14 Harvey Smith Peeler, Jr. R A
SC State Senate-15 Wes Hayes, Jr. R A
SC State Senate-16 Chauncey Gregory R A
SC State Senate-17 Creighton Coleman D ?
SC State Senate-18 Ronnie Cromer R A+
SC State Senate-19 John Scott, Jr. D D
SC State Senate-20 John Courson R A+
SC State Senate-21 Darrell Jackson D ?
SC State Senate-22 Joel Lourie D ?
SC State Senate-26 Nikki Setzler D A
SC State Senate-27 Vincent Sheheen D ?
SC State Senate-29 Gerald Malloy D A
SC State Senate-31 Hugh Kenneth Leatherman, Sr. R A+
SC State Senate-32 John McGill D A
SC State Senate-33 Luke Rankin, Sr. R ?
SC State Senate-37 Larry Grooms R A+
SC State Senate-39 John Matthews, Jr. D ?
SC State Senate-40 Charles Bradley Hutto D ?
SC State Senate-42 Robert Ford D F
SC State Senate-45 Clementa Pinckney D ?
SC Treasurer Converse Chellis III Other A
SC Councilmember-3 George Bailey R A
John Graham Altman III Other A+
Ralph Anderson Other ?
James Battle, Jr. Other A
Floyd Breeland Other D
Joe Brown Other D
Harry Cato Other A
Catherine Ceips Other A
Ken Clark Other A
Marty Coates Other B+
Daniel Cooper Other A+
William Cotty Other B+
Thomas Dantzler Other A
Guy Davenport, Jr. Other A
John Drummond Other A+
Dick Elliott Other B-
Eldridge Emory Other ?
Marion Frye Other A
Ben Hagood, Jr. Other ?
Glenn Hamilton Other A
James Harrison Other A+
Charles Alexander Harvin III Other A
Gloria Haskins Other A
John Hawkins Other A+
Jesse Edison Hines Other D
Mack Hines, Jr. Other D
Douglas Jennings, Jr. Other A+
Kenneth Kennedy Other D
Herbert Kirsh Other A
Jake Knotts, Jr. Other A
John Land III Other A
Robert Leach, Sr. Other A
Brenda Lee Other D
Phil Leventis Other A
Lanny Littlejohn Other A
Walter Lloyd Other ?
Joseph Mahaffey, Sr. Other A
Becky Martin Other A
E. DeWitt McCraw Other A
James McGee III Other A
William Mescher Other A
Vida Miller Other ?
Bessie Moody-Lawrence Other D
Tommy Moore Other A+
James Neal Other ?
Denny Neilson Other A
Anne Parks Other F
Kay Patterson Other ?
Robert Perry, Jr. Other ?
Olin Phillips Other A
Lewis Pinson Other B+
Edward Pitts, Jr. Other A
Thomas Rhoad Other A
Rex Rice Other A
Scott Richardson Other A
James Ritchie, Jr. Other A
R. Thayer Rivers, Jr. Other ?
Greg Ryberg Other A+
Wallace Scarborough Other A
Linda Short Other A+
Phillip Sinclair Other A+
Donald Smith Other B+
Fletcher Smith, Jr. Other F
Murrell Smith, Jr. Other A
Jefferson Verne Smith Other ?
William Smith Other B+
John Snow III Other A
James Stewart, Jr. Other A-
Scott Talley Other A
Adam Taylor, Sr. Other A
David Thomas Other A
Michael Thompson Other A
Ronald Parker Townsend Other A
Daniel Tripp Other A
C. David Umphlett, Jr. Other ?
Lewis Raymond Vaughn Other A
Thad Viers Other A
Robert Walker Other A
David Horton Wilkins Other A+
William Witherspoon Other A-
Annette Young Other A

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