Rating Group: California Communities United Institute

2010 Minority Issues Score

State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-2 Jared Huffman D 98%
CA U.S. House-8 Paul Cook R 10%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 23%
CA U.S. House-26 Julia Brownley D 100%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 97%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 88%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 88%
CA State Assembly-3 Dan Logue R 10%
CA State Assembly-4 Mariko Yamada D 100%
CA State Assembly-15 Nancy Skinner D 100%
CA State Assembly-16 Joan Buchanan D 76%
CA State Assembly-17 Tom Ammiano D 100%
CA State Assembly-26 Connie Conway R 10%
CA State Assembly-28 Paul Fong D 100%
CA State Assembly-42 Brian Nestande R 14%
CA State Assembly-43 Mike Gatto D 88%
CA State Assembly-45 Bob Blumenfield D 98%
CA State Assembly-48 Roger Hernandez D 100%
CA State Assembly-53 John Pérez D 100%
CA State Assembly-55 Curt Hagman R 17%
CA State Assembly-56 V. Pérez D 90%
CA State Assembly-62 Steven Bradford D 100%
CA State Assembly-64 Isadore Hall III D 98%
CA State Assembly-70 Bonnie Lowenthal D 98%
CA State Assembly-73 Diane Harkey R 10%
CA State Senate-1 Ted Gaines R 10%
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 98%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 100%
CA State Senate-4 Jim Nielsen R 10%
CA State Senate-5 Cathleen Galgiani D 79%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 100%
CA State Senate-7 Mark DeSaulnier D 97%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 100%
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 100%
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 97%
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100%
CA State Senate-13 Gerald Hill D 100%
CA State Senate-14 Thomas Berryhill R 17%
CA State Senate-15 James Beall, Jr. D 100%
CA State Senate-17 Bill Monning D 100%
CA State Senate-18 Jean Fuller R 10%
CA State Senate-20 Alex Padilla D 100%
CA State Senate-21 Stephen Knight R 10%
CA State Senate-22 Kevin de Leon D 100%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 97%
CA State Senate-26 Curren Price, Jr. D 100%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100%
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 88%
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 20%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 93%
CA State Senate-32 Norma Torres D 86%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 73%
CA State Senate-35 Roderick Wright D 97%
CA State Senate-36 Joel Anderson R 10%
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 23%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 20%
CA State Senate-39 Martin Block D 88%
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 98%
CA Council Member-7 Felipe Fuentes D 93%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 100%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 23%
Samuel Aanestad Other 17%
Anthony Adams Other 19%
Elaine Alquist Other 97%
Juan Arambula Other 86%
Roy Ashburn Other 27%
Bill Berryhill Other 10%
Sam Blakeslee Other 7%
Anna Caballero Other 79%
Charles Calderon Other 79%
Amina Carter Other 98%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 93%
Joe Coto Other 100%
Mike Davis Other 93%
Hector De La Torre Other 98%
Charles DeVore Other 10%
Denise Ducheny Other 97%
Robert Dutton Other 17%
Mike Eng Other 100%
Mike Feuer Other 100%
Nathan Fletcher Other 19%
Dean Florez Other 100%
Warren Furutani Other 93%
Martin Garrick Other 10%
Danny Gilmore Other 12%
Tom Harman Other 30%
Mary Hayashi Other 100%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 17%
Alyson Huber Other 52%
Kevin Jeffries Other 10%
Christine Kehoe Other 100%
Fiona Ma Other 88%
Tony Mendoza Other 95%
Jeff Miller Other 10%
Pedro Nava Other 90%
Roger Niello Other 10%
Chris Norby Other 12%
Jenny Oropeza Other 57%
Anthony Portantino, Jr. Other 86%
Gloria Romero Other 100%
George Runner, Jr. Other 23%
Ira Ruskin Other 100%
Mary Salas Other 98%
Lori Saldaña Other 100%
Jim Silva Other 10%
Saren Simitian Other 97%
Cameron Smyth Other 14%
Jose Solorio Other 88%
Tony Strickland Other 23%
Audra Strickland Other 19%
Sandré Swanson Other 100%
Alberto Torrico Other 95%
Van Tran Other 17%
Mike Villines Other 14%
Patricia Wiggins Other 53%

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