Rating Group: California Taxpayers' Association

2006 Positions on Tax and Fiscal Policy

Issues: Budget, Spending and Taxes
How to Interpret these Evaluations
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 31
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 100
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 18
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 94
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 19
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 31
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 38
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 24
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 44
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 30
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 24
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 20
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 100
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 50
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 24
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 44
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 100
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 45
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 100
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 100
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 44
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 24
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 25
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 22
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 100
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 41
CA Council Member-At-Large Joe Baca, Jr. Other 50
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 24
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 38
Elaine Alquist Other 25
Juan Arambula Other 44
Roy Ashburn Other 100
James Battin Other 100
Patty Berg Other 20
Rudy Bermúdez Other 25
Sam Blakeslee Other 100
Russell Bogh Other 100
Joseph Canciamilla Other 77
Gilbert Cedillo Other 38
Edward Chavez Other 50
Rebecca Cohn Other 33
Joe Coto Other 25
Dave Cox Other 100
Lynn Daucher Other 100
Hector De La Torre Other 26
Charles DeVore Other 100
Denise Ducheny Other 33
Joseph Dunn Other 25
Robert Dutton Other 100
Mervyn Dymally Other 22
Martha Escutia Other 25
Liz Figueroa Other 35
Dean Florez Other 50
Dario Frommer Other 33
Bonnie Garcia Other 100
Jackie Goldberg Other 25
Tom Harman Other 100
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 100
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 100
Jerome Horton Other 38
Shirley Horton Other 94
Guy Houston Other 100
Betty Karnette Other 35
Richard Keene Other 100
Christine Kehoe Other 31
Johan Klehs Other 35
Sheila Kuehl Other 24
John Laird Other 24
Jay La Suer Other 100
Robert Leslie Other 100
Lloyd Levine Other 25
Sally Lieber Other 27
Michael Machado Other 56
Abel Maldonado Other 100
Bob Margett Other 100
Barbara Matthews Other 53
Bill Maze Other 100
Carole Migden Other 38
Cindy Montañez Other 31
William Phillip Morrow Other 100
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 94
Eugene Mullin Other 28
Kevin Murray Other 44
Joseph Nation Other 19
Pedro Nava Other 38
Roger Niello Other 100
Fabian Núñez Other 19
Jenny Oropeza Other 25
Deborah Ortiz Other 31
Nicole Parra Other 81
Don Perata Other 25
George Plescia Other 100
Charles Poochigian Other 100
Keith Stuart Richman Other 100
Gloria Romero Other 31
George Runner, Jr. Other 100
Sharon Runner Other 100
Ira Ruskin Other 24
Lori Saldaña Other 20
Simón Salinas Other 31
Jack Scott Other 25
Saren Simitian Other 31
Nell Soto Other 25
Todd Spitzer Other 100
Audra Strickland Other 100
Alberto Torrico Other 47
Van Tran Other 100
Thomas Umberg Other 81
Mike Villines Other 100
Edward Vincent Other 25

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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