Rating Group: California Communities United Institute - LGBTI

2007 LGBTI Rights Score

Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 14
CA U.S. House-2 Jared Huffman D 100
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 9
CA U.S. House-8 Paul Cook R 19
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 15
CA U.S. House-26 Julia Brownley D 97
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 100
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 100
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 94
CA State Senate-1 Ted Gaines R 19
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 97
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 100
CA State Senate-5 Cathleen Galgiani D 89
CA State Senate-6 Darrell Steinberg D 94
CA State Senate-7 Mark DeSaulnier D 97
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 97
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 97
CA State Senate-10 Ellen Corbett D 94
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100
CA State Senate-14 Thomas Berryhill R 17
CA State Senate-15 James Beall, Jr. D 100
CA State Senate-18 Jean Fuller R 14
CA State Senate-20 Alex Padilla D 100
CA State Senate-22 Kevin de Leon D 100
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 14
CA State Senate-24 Edward Hernandez D 100
CA State Senate-26 Curren Price, Jr. D 100
CA State Senate-28 Ted Lieu D 97
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 22
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 97
CA State Senate-34 Lou Correa D 82
CA State Senate-36 Joel Anderson R 11
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 17
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 18
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 100
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 97
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 14
CA Council Member-2 Paul Krekorian D 97
CA Council Member-7 Felipe Fuentes D 100
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 100
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 21
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 17
Samuel Aanestad Other 21
Richard Ackerman Other 21
Anthony Adams Other 28
Gregory Aghazarian Other 17
Elaine Alquist Other 100
Juan Arambula Other 97
Roy Ashburn Other 21
James Battin Other 35
Patty Berg Other 100
Sam Blakeslee Other 33
Anna Caballero Other 100
Charles Calderon Other 92
Amina Carter Other 92
Gilbert Cedillo Other 100
Joe Coto Other 100
Dave Cox Other 21
Mike Davis Other 97
Hector De La Torre Other 97
Charles DeVore Other 17
Denise Ducheny Other 97
Robert Dutton Other 24
Michael Duvall Other 17
Mervyn Dymally Other 100
Mike Eng Other 100
Mike Feuer Other 100
Dean Florez Other 85
Bonnie Garcia Other 28
Martin Garrick Other 14
Tom Harman Other 24
Mary Hayashi Other 97
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 6
Shirley Horton Other 19
Guy Houston Other 19
Kevin Jeffries Other 17
Betty Karnette Other 100
Richard Keene Other 17
Christine Kehoe Other 100
Sheila Kuehl Other 100
John Laird Other 100
Lloyd Levine Other 100
Sally Lieber Other 100
Fiona Ma Other 100
Michael Machado Other 94
Abel Maldonado Other 29
Bob Margett Other 24
Bill Maze Other 17
Tony Mendoza Other 100
Carole Migden Other 100
Eugene Mullin Other 100
Pedro Nava Other 100
Roger Niello Other 28
Fabian Núñez Other 100
Jenny Oropeza Other 88
Nicole Parra Other 89
Don Perata Other 97
George Plescia Other 17
Anthony Portantino, Jr. Other 100
Gloria Romero Other 100
George Runner, Jr. Other 35
Sharon Runner Other 22
Ira Ruskin Other 100
Mary Salas Other 100
Lori Saldaña Other 100
Jack Scott Other 100
Jim Silva Other 17
Saren Simitian Other 100
Cameron Smyth Other 19
Jose Solorio Other 100
Nell Soto Other 81
Todd Spitzer Other 19
Audra Strickland Other 39
Sandré Swanson Other 100
Alberto Torrico Other 97
Van Tran Other 17
Mike Villines Other 14
Edward Vincent Other 79
Patricia Wiggins Other 94

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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