Rating Group: Children's Advocacy Institute

2004 Positions on Child and Youth Issues

Issues: Marriage, Family, and Children
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 29
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 38
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 38
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 76
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 29
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 90
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 86
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 29
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 90
CA U.S. House-51 Juan Vargas D 90
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 90
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 90
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 86
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 90
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 86
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 86
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 86
CA State Senate-19 Hannah-Beth Jackson D 90
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 86
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 76
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 81
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 38
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 67
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 90
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 86
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 33
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 48
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 90
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 33
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 43
Samuel Aanestad Other 33
Richard Ackerman Other 29
Gregory Aghazarian Other 33
Richard Alarcón Other 90
Deirdre Alpert Other 86
Roy Ashburn Other 33
Patricia Bates Other 38
James Battin Other 29
Patty Berg Other 90
Rudy Bermúdez Other 90
Russell Bogh Other 33
James Brulte Other 29
John Burton Other 86
Charles Calderon Other 67
Joseph Canciamilla Other 71
Gilbert Cedillo Other 90
Edward Chavez Other 90
Rebecca Cohn Other 86
Dave Cox Other 33
Lynn Daucher Other 52
Manny Diaz Other 86
Denise Ducheny Other 81
Joseph Dunn Other 67
John Anthony Dutra Other 90
Robert Dutton Other 29
Mervyn Dymally Other 86
Martha Escutia Other 90
Liz Figueroa Other 90
Marco Antonio Firebaugh Other 90
Dean Florez Other 81
Dario Frommer Other 86
Bonnie Garcia Other 48
Jackie Goldberg Other 81
Tom Harman Other 38
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 24
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 29
Jerome Horton Other 86
Shirley Horton Other 57
Guy Houston Other 38
Ross Johnson Other 29
Betty Karnette Other 90
Richard Keene Other 29
Christine Kehoe Other 90
Sheila Kuehl Other 86
John Laird Other 90
Jay La Suer Other 29
Robert Leslie Other 33
Lloyd Levine Other 90
Sally Lieber Other 90
John Longville Other 86
Michael Machado Other 81
Ken Maddox Other 38
Abel Maldonado Other 67
Bob Margett Other 29
Barbara Matthews Other 76
Bill Maze Other 33
Bruce McPherson Other 48
Cindy Montañez Other 90
William Phillip Morrow Other 29
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 33
Eugene Mullin Other 90
Kevin Murray Other 71
George Nakano Other 86
Joseph Nation Other 86
Fabian Núñez Other 90
Thomas Oller Other 29
Jenny Oropeza Other 81
Deborah Ortiz Other 86
Robert Pacheco Other 33
Nicole Parra Other 76
Don Perata Other 86
George Plescia Other 33
Charles Poochigian Other 29
Sarah Reyes Other 90
Keith Stuart Richman Other 48
Gloria Romero Other 81
George Runner, Jr. Other 29
Simón Salinas Other 90
Steve Samuelian Other 38
Jack Scott Other 86
Byron Sher Other 81
Saren Simitian Other 81
Nell Soto Other 90
Todd Spitzer Other 43
Audra Strickland Other 33
John Vasconcellos Other 76
Edward Vincent Other 24
Herb Wesson, Jr. Other 90
Patricia Wiggins Other 90

How to Interpret these Evaluations

Keep in mind that ratings done by special interest groups often do not represent a non-partisan stance. In addition, some groups select votes that tend to favor members of one political party over another, rather than choosing votes based solely on issues concerns. Nevertheless, they can be invaluable in showing where an incumbent has stood on a series of votes in the past one or two years, especially when ratings by groups on all sides of an issue are compared. Website links, if available, and descriptions of the organizations offering performance evaluations are accessible by clicking on the name of the group.

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