Rating Group: Consumer Federation of California

2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 9%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 100%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 100%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 63%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 7%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100%
CA U.S. House-51 Juan Vargas D 86%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 100%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 87%
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 100%
CA State Senate-19 Hannah-Beth Jackson D 100%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 100%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 87%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 79%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 73%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 7%
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 80%
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 94%
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 100%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 91%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 0%
Samuel Aanestad Other 7%
Richard Ackerman Other 9%
Richard Alarcón Other 82%
Deirdre Alpert Other 100%
Roy Ashburn Other 14%
Patricia Bates Other 12%
James Battin Other 10%
Russell Bogh Other 7%
James Brulte Other 9%
John Burton Other 100%
Joseph Canciamilla Other 64%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 82%
Edward Chavez Other 75%
Rebecca Cohn Other 87%
Dave Cox Other 7%
Lynn Daucher Other 20%
Manny Diaz Other 86%
Joseph Dunn Other 100%
John Anthony Dutra Other 64%
Martha Escutia Other 91%
Liz Figueroa Other 91%
Marco Antonio Firebaugh Other 93%
Dean Florez Other 46%
Dario Frommer Other 81%
Jackie Goldberg Other 94%
Tom Harman Other 7%
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 10%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 7%
Jerome Horton Other 71%
Ross Johnson Other 9%
Betty Karnette Other 100%
Christine Kehoe Other 100%
William Knight Other 11%
Sheila Kuehl Other 100%
Jay La Suer Other 0%
Robert Leslie Other 7%
John Longville Other 93%
Michael Machado Other 55%
Ken Maddox Other 7%
Abel Maldonado Other 7%
Bob Margett Other 9%
Barbara Matthews Other 64%
Bruce McPherson Other 9%
William Phillip Morrow Other 11%
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 0%
Kevin Murray Other 100%
George Nakano Other 43%
Joseph Nation Other 79%
Thomas Oller Other 9%
Jenny Oropeza Other 71%
Deborah Ortiz Other 100%
Robert Pacheco Other 0%
Don Perata Other 91%
Charles Poochigian Other 9%
Sarah Reyes Other 93%
Keith Stuart Richman Other 7%
Gloria Romero Other 100%
George Runner, Jr. Other 6%
Simón Salinas Other 81%
Jack Scott Other 100%
Byron Sher Other 100%
Saren Simitian Other 93%
Nell Soto Other 100%
Tony Strickland Other 7%
John Vasconcellos Other 91%
Edward Vincent Other 25%
Herb Wesson, Jr. Other 80%
Patricia Wiggins Other 87%

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