Rating Group: National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund

1998 Positions on Gun Rights

Issues: Guns
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
IL U.S. House-14 Randy Hultgren R A
IL State House-1 Daniel Burke D D
IL State House-2 Edward Acevedo D F
IL State House-12 Sara Feigenholtz D F-
IL State House-16 Louis Lang D D
IL State House-20 Michael McAuliffe R A+
IL State House-22 Michael Madigan D F
IL State House-25 Barbara Currie D F-
IL State House-27 Monique Davis D F-
IL State House-31 Mary Flowers D F
IL State House-37 Renée Kosel R A
IL State House-47 Patricia Bellock R B
IL State House-63 Jack Franks D C
IL State House-73 David Leitch R B
IL State House-74 Don Moffitt R A+
IL State House-76 Frank Mautino D A
IL State House-82 James Durkin R C
IL State House-86 Lawrence Walsh D A
IL State House-88 Keith Sommer R A
IL State House-97 Tom Cross R A-
IL State House-99 Raymond Poe R A+
IL State House-101 Bill Mitchell R A-
IL State House-113 Jay Hoffman D B+
IL State House-115 Mike Bost R A+
IL State Senate-17 Donne Trotter D D
IL State Senate-24 Kirk Dillard R A+
IL State Senate-35 Dave Syverson R A+
IL State Senate-44 William Brady, Jr. R B+
IL State Senate-55 Dale Righter R A+
IL State Senate-58 David Luechtefeld R A
IL Director of the Department of Transportation Gary Hannig N/A A+
IL Supervisor-At-Large M. Maggie Crotty D F
IL Commissioner-12 John Fritchey D D
IL Treasurer Dan Rutherford R A
IL Board Member-1 James Meyer Other A
NA President Barack Obama II D F
Mark Beaubien, Jr. Other A+
Robert Biggins Other A
William Black Other A+
Michael Boland Other A
Larry Bomke Other A+
Evelyn Bowles Other A
Richard Bradley Other D
James Brosnahan Other D
Joel Brunsvold Other A+
Robert Bugielski Other D
J. Burzynski Other A+
Ralph Capparelli Other C-
Elizabeth Coulson Other D-
Mary Lou Cowlishaw Other A+
Julie Curry Other A+
Lee Daniels Other A
Thomas Dart Other F-
Steve Davis Other A+
James DeLeo Other B
Miguel Del Valle Other F
Vince Demuzio Other A+
Walter Dudycz Other B-
Judy Erwin Other F-
James Fowler Other A
Lauren Beth Gash Other F-
Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Other A+
Michael Giglio Other D
Calvin Giles Other D
Kurt Granberg Other A+
Debbie Halvorson Other A+
Charles Hartke Other A+
Brent Hassert Other A
Carl Hawkinson Other A+
Douglas Hoeft Other D
Thomas Holbrook Other A+
Constance Howard Other F
Thomas Lee Johnson Other A+
Tim Johnson Other A+
Emil Jones, Jr. Other F
John Jones Other A+
Lovana Jones Other F
Shirley Jones Other F
Doris Karpiel Other C
Howard Kenner Other F
Dick Klemm Other A-
Gwenn Klingler Other A
Carolyn Krause Other F-
I. Ronald Lawfer Other A
Patricia Lindner Other C
Edgar Lopez Other F
Eileen Lyons Other D
Joseph Lyons Other C
William Mahar Other B
John Maitland, Jr. Other A
Kevin McCarthy Other F
John McGuire Other B-
Larry McKeon Other C+
Gerald Mitchell Other A
Andrea Moore Other C+
Charles Morrow III Other D
Rosemary Mulligan Other C
Harold Murphy Other A+
Judith Myers Other A
Richard Myers Other A+
N. Duane Noland Other A+
John Philip Novak Other B
Mary O'Brien Other A+
Timothy Osmond Other A
Carole Pankau Other A
Terry Parke Other A+
Kathleen Parker Other C
Vincent Persico Other B
William Peterson Other A+
James Philip Other A+
Dan Reitz Other A+
Tom Ryder Other A+
Skip Saviano Other D
Jeffrey Schoenberg Other F-
Douglas Scott Other F
George Scully, Jr. Other D
George Shadid Other F
Todd Sieben Other A+
Sonia Silva Other F
Cal Skinner Other A+
Ricca Slone Other F-
Michael Smith Other A+
Ron Stephens Other A+
Todd Stroger Other F
Arthur Tenhouse Other A+
Arthur Turner Other D
John Turner Other A+
Louis Viverito Other C
Ronald Wait Other A+
Thomas Walsh Other F
Frank Watson Other A+
Stanley Blake Weaver Other A+
Patrick Welch Other C
Richard Winkel, Jr. Other A
David Winters Other A
David Wirsing Other A
Kathleen Wojcik Other A+
Larry Woolard Other A+
Anne Zickus Other A+

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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