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2012 HJTA Legislative Report Card

Our report card is designed to help Californians gauge how their state representatives are actually performing on taxpayer-related issues.

The 2012 scores stem from 20 bills.

For any additional questions about our methodology and scoring system, please email Legislative Director David Wolfe at: david@hjta.org

Click the button above to search for your Assembly and Senate Representatives by entering your address, then return to this page to see how they have performed for you.

Year: 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006

District	Assembly Member	Party	Grade	%
1	Chesbro	D	F	0
2	Nielsen	R	A	90.5
3	Logue	R	A	98.1
4	Gaines	R	A	100
5	Pan	D	F	0
6	Huffman	D	F	0
7	Allen	D	F	0
8	Yamada	D	F	0
9	Dickinson	D	F	0
10	Huber	D	F	0
11	Bonilla	D	F	0
12	Ma	D	F	0
13	Ammiano	D	F	0
14	Skinner	D	F	0
15	Buchanan	D	F	0
16	Swanson	D	F	0
17	Galgiani	D	F	0
18	Hayashi	D	F	0
19	Hill	D	F	0
20	Wieckowski	D	F	0
21	Gordon	D	F	0
22	Fong	D	F	0
23	Campos	D	F	0
24	Beall	D	F	0
25	Olsen	R	C	77.5
26	Berryhill, Bill	R	A	90.5
27	Monning	D	F	0
28	Alejo	D	F	0
29	Halderman	R	A	93.2
30	Valadao	R	B	83.4
31	Perea	D	F	0
32	Grove	R	A	100
33	Achadjian	R	D	60
34	Conway	R	A	95.3
35	Williams	D	F	0
36	Knight	R	A	100
37	Gorell	R	B	81.8
38	Smyth	R	F	40
39	Fuentes	D	F	0
40	Blumenfield	D	F	0
40	Portantino	D	F	0
41	Brownley	D	F	0
42	Feuer	D	F	0
43	Gatto	D	F	0
45	Cedillo	D	F	0
46	Perez, John	D	F	0
47	Mitchell	D	F	0
48	Davis	D	F	0
49	Eng	D	F	0
50	Lara	D	F	0
51	Bradford	D	F	0
52	Hall	D	F	0
53	Butler	D	F	0
54	Lowenthal	D	F	0
55	Furutani	D	F	0
56	Mendoza	D	F	0
57	Hernandez	D	F	0
58	Calderon	D	F	0
59	Donnelly	R	A	100
60	Hagman	R	B	83.4
61	Torres	D	F	0
62	Carter	D	F	0
63	Morrell	R	A	100
64	Nestande	R	C	71.4
65	Cook	R	B	85.7
66	Jeffries	R	A	97.9
67	Silva	R	A	100
68	Mansoor	R	A	95
69	Solorio	D	F	0
70	Wagner	R	A	95.7
71	Miller	R	B	87
72	Norby	R	B	86.6
73	Harkey	R	A	97.9
74	Garrick	R	A	100
75	Fletcher	I	F	0
76	Atkins	D	F	0
77	Jones	R	A	97.8
78	Block	D	F	0
79	Hueso	D	F	0
80	Perez, Manuel	D	F	0

District	Senator	Party	Grade	%
1	Gaines	R	A	100
2	Evans	D	F	0
3	Leno	D	F	0
4	LaMalfa	R	A	96.5
5	Wolk	D	F	0
6	Steinberg	D	F	0
7	DeSaulnier	D	F	0
8	Yee	D	F	0
9	Hancock	D	F	0
10	Corbett	D	F	0
11	Simitian	D	F	0
12	Cannella	R	C	77.5
13	Alquist	D	F	0
14	Berryhill, Tom	R	B	87.5
15	Blakeslee	R	C	78.6
16	Rubio	D	F	0
17	Runner	R	N/A*	0
18	Fuller	R	B	81.3
19	Strickland	R	A	90
20	Padilla	D	F	0
21	Liu	D	F	0
22	De Leon	D	F	0
23	Pavley	D	F	0
24	Hernandez	D	F	0
25	Wright	D	F	16.6
26	Price	D	F	-45
27	Lowenthal	D	F	0
28	Lieu	D	F	0
29	Huff	R	A	95.2
30	Calderon, Ron	D	F	0
31	Dutton	R	A	92.9
32	Negrete McLeod	D	F	0
33	Walters	R	A	100
34	Correa	D	F	40
35	Harman	R	D	63.3
36	Anderson	R	A	100
37	Emmerson	R	D	53.4
38	Wyland	R	A	90
39	Kehoe	D	F	0
40	Vargas	D	F	0

NOTE:
Only policy committee and Floor votes are included in the scorecard.

AB 1492, AB 1500, and SB 1455 were three major tax increases in the 2012 legislative year. A vote for any of these resulted in an automatic 15 point reduction.

Only the final Floor votes for AB 2451 have been included, as HJTA had not taken a position on prior versions of the bill.

Only the final floor votes are included with SB 1455, due to it being a gut-and-amend proposal.

*State Senator Sharon Runner did not receive a grade due to personal health reasons.

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