Rating Group: California Taxpayers' Association

2005 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 100%
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 100%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 100%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 67%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 100%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 20%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 90%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 25%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 100%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 50%
CA U.S. House-51 Juan Vargas D 25%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 25%
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 22%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 30%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 25%
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 25%
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 25%
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 100%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 80%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 25%
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 100%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 50%
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 100%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 100%
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 42%
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 19%
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 10%
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 27%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 100%
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 23%
CA Council Member-At-Large Joe Baca, Jr. Other 30%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 23%
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 27%
Elaine Alquist Other 25%
Juan Arambula Other 70%
Roy Ashburn Other 91%
James Battin Other 100%
Patty Berg Other 25%
Rudy Bermúdez Other 36%
Sam Blakeslee Other 100%
Russell Bogh Other 100%
Joseph Canciamilla Other 53%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 23%
Edward Chavez Other 30%
Rebecca Cohn Other 30%
Joe Coto Other 25%
Dave Cox Other 100%
Lynn Daucher Other 100%
Hector De La Torre Other 27%
Charles DeVore Other 100%
Denise Ducheny Other 40%
Joseph Dunn Other 30%
Robert Dutton Other 100%
Mervyn Dymally Other 30%
Martha Escutia Other 15%
Liz Figueroa Other 40%
Dean Florez Other 36%
Dario Frommer Other 30%
Bonnie Garcia Other 100%
Jackie Goldberg Other 30%
Tom Harman Other 100%
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 100%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 100%
Jerome Horton Other 45%
Shirley Horton Other 100%
Guy Houston Other 100%
Betty Karnette Other 25%
Richard Keene Other 100%
Christine Kehoe Other 25%
Johan Klehs Other 38%
Sheila Kuehl Other 18%
John Laird Other 30%
Jay La Suer Other 100%
Robert Leslie Other 100%
Lloyd Levine Other 23%
Sally Lieber Other 31%
Michael Machado Other 38%
Abel Maldonado Other 100%
Bob Margett Other 100%
Barbara Matthews Other 30%
Bill Maze Other 100%
Carole Migden Other 27%
Cindy Montañez Other 30%
William Phillip Morrow Other 100%
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 100%
Eugene Mullin Other 25%
Kevin Murray Other 45%
Joseph Nation Other 21%
Pedro Nava Other 30%
Roger Niello Other 100%
Fabian Núñez Other 30%
Jenny Oropeza Other 25%
Deborah Ortiz Other 15%
Nicole Parra Other 40%
Don Perata Other 30%
George Plescia Other 100%
Charles Poochigian Other 100%
Keith Stuart Richman Other 100%
Gloria Romero Other 30%
George Runner, Jr. Other 100%
Sharon Runner Other 100%
Ira Ruskin Other 27%
Lori Saldaña Other 21%
Simón Salinas Other 22%
Jack Scott Other 25%
Saren Simitian Other 20%
Nell Soto Other 25%
Todd Spitzer Other 100%
Audra Strickland Other 100%
Alberto Torrico Other 36%
Van Tran Other 100%
Thomas Umberg Other 100%
Mike Villines Other 100%
Edward Vincent Other 40%

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