Rating Group: California Taxpayers' Association

2003 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 95%
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 94%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 100%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 18%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 100%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 5%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 45%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 100%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 5%
CA U.S. House-51 Juan Vargas D 10%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 18%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 10%
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 5%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 10%
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 10%
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 10%
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 5%
CA State Senate-19 Hannah-Beth Jackson D 10%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 10%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 5%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 10%
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 70%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 100%
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 29%
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 10%
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 5%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 100%
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 5%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 18%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 100%
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 100%
Samuel Aanestad Other 100%
Richard Ackerman Other 100%
Gregory Aghazarian Other 100%
Richard Alarcón Other 6%
Deirdre Alpert Other 6%
Roy Ashburn Other 100%
Patricia Bates Other 100%
James Battin Other 100%
Patty Berg Other 5%
Rudy Bermúdez Other 10%
Russell Bogh Other 100%
James Brulte Other 100%
John Burton Other 12%
Joseph Canciamilla Other 35%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 6%
Edward Chavez Other 10%
Rebecca Cohn Other 20%
Dave Cox Other 100%
Lynn Daucher Other 100%
Manny Diaz Other 10%
Denise Ducheny Other 12%
Joseph Dunn Other 12%
John Anthony Dutra Other 30%
Robert Dutton Other 100%
Mervyn Dymally Other 5%
Martha Escutia Other 6%
Liz Figueroa Other 6%
Dean Florez Other 24%
Dario Frommer Other 15%
Bonnie Garcia Other 100%
Jackie Goldberg Other 5%
Tom Harman Other 100%
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 100%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 100%
Jerome Horton Other 20%
Shirley Horton Other 95%
Guy Houston Other 100%
Ross Johnson Other 100%
Betty Karnette Other 6%
Richard Keene Other 100%
Christine Kehoe Other 5%
William Knight Other 100%
Sheila Kuehl Other 6%
John Laird Other 5%
Jay La Suer Other 100%
Robert Leslie Other 100%
Lloyd Levine Other 5%
Sally Lieber Other 5%
John Longville Other 5%
Michael Machado Other 29%
Ken Maddox Other 95%
Abel Maldonado Other 90%
Bob Margett Other 94%
Barbara Matthews Other 75%
Bill Maze Other 100%
Bruce McPherson Other 88%
Cindy Montañez Other 5%
William Phillip Morrow Other 100%
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 95%
Eugene Mullin Other 5%
Kevin Murray Other 24%
George Nakano Other 15%
Joseph Nation Other 5%
Fabian Núñez Other 5%
Thomas Oller Other 100%
Jenny Oropeza Other 5%
Deborah Ortiz Other 12%
Robert Pacheco Other 100%
Nicole Parra Other 35%
Don Perata Other 6%
George Plescia Other 100%
Charles Poochigian Other 100%
Sarah Reyes Other 15%
Keith Stuart Richman Other 95%
Gloria Romero Other 6%
Sharon Runner Other 100%
Simón Salinas Other 5%
Steve Samuelian Other 100%
Jack Scott Other 18%
Byron Sher Other 12%
Saren Simitian Other 10%
Nell Soto Other 6%
Todd Spitzer Other 100%
Tony Strickland Other 100%
John Vasconcellos Other 12%
Edward Vincent Other 24%
Herb Wesson, Jr. Other 5%
Patricia Wiggins Other 15%

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