Rating Group: Consumer Federation of California

2006 Positions on Consumer Advocacy

Issues: Business and Consumers
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 8
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 30
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 40
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 100
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 17
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 100
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 92
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 100
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100
CA U.S. House-51 Juan Vargas D 92
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 92
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 100
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 92
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 92
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 100
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 8
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 100
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 85
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 8
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 8
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 6
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 100
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 100
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 87
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 100
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 17
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 92
CA Council Member-At-Large Joe Baca, Jr. Other 80
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 100
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 10
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 8
Samuel Aanestad Other 23
Richard Ackerman Other 0
Gregory Aghazarian Other 8
Richard Alarcón Other 92
Elaine Alquist Other 100
Juan Arambula Other 92
Roy Ashburn Other 27
James Battin Other 25
Patty Berg Other 100
Rudy Bermúdez Other 100
Sam Blakeslee Other 13
Russell Bogh Other 20
Charles Calderon Other 54
Joseph Canciamilla Other 75
Gilbert Cedillo Other 80
Edward Chavez Other 77
Rebecca Cohn Other 80
Joe Coto Other 100
Dave Cox Other 23
Lynn Daucher Other 38
Hector De La Torre Other 100
Charles DeVore Other 8
Denise Ducheny Other 100
Joseph Dunn Other 100
Robert Dutton Other 21
Mervyn Dymally Other 100
Martha Escutia Other 92
Liz Figueroa Other 100
Dean Florez Other 90
Dario Frommer Other 85
Bonnie Garcia Other 15
Jackie Goldberg Other 100
Tom Harman Other 33
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 8
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 20
Jerome Horton Other 73
Shirley Horton Other 27
Guy Houston Other 8
Betty Karnette Other 100
Richard Keene Other 13
Christine Kehoe Other 100
Johan Klehs Other 100
Sheila Kuehl Other 100
John Laird Other 100
Jay La Suer Other 8
Robert Leslie Other 8
Lloyd Levine Other 87
Sally Lieber Other 100
Michael Machado Other 70
Abel Maldonado Other 17
Bob Margett Other 30
Barbara Matthews Other 58
Bill Maze Other 8
Carole Migden Other 90
Cindy Montañez Other 93
William Phillip Morrow Other 10
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 8
Eugene Mullin Other 100
Kevin Murray Other 83
Joseph Nation Other 92
Pedro Nava Other 100
Roger Niello Other 8
Fabian Núñez Other 100
Jenny Oropeza Other 100
Deborah Ortiz Other 92
Nicole Parra Other 85
Don Perata Other 90
George Plescia Other 9
Charles Poochigian Other 36
Keith Stuart Richman Other 25
Gloria Romero Other 91
George Runner, Jr. Other 17
Sharon Runner Other 83
Ira Ruskin Other 100
Lori Saldaña Other 100
Simón Salinas Other 100
Jack Scott Other 100
Saren Simitian Other 100
Nell Soto Other 100
Todd Spitzer Other 8
Audra Strickland Other 17
Alberto Torrico Other 92
Van Tran Other 17
Thomas Umberg Other 83
Mike Villines Other 8
Edward Vincent Other 100

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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