2008 HJTA Legislative Report Card
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Annual Legislative Report Card is designed to help Californians gauge how their state representatives are performing on taxpayer-related issues. For the 2008 legislative season, 29 bills were used to evaluate and grade voting records. Reflecting the gravity of these bills, one-third (10) are double-weighted. Most of these are bills that deal with tax increases — often masquerading as fees — or direct assaults on Proposition 13 and Proposition 218, the Right to Vote on Taxes Act.
Only 28 legislators (23 percent) received an "A" this year, a record low in the report card's six-year history.
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District | Assembly Member | Grade | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berg | F | 7.9 |
| 2 | La Malfa | A | 97.9 |
| 3 | Keene | A | 96 |
| 4 | Gaines | A | 100 |
| 5 | Niello | A | 90 |
| 6 | Huffman | F | 10.6 |
| 7 | Evans | F | 11.5 |
| 8 | Wolk | F | 11.8 |
| 9 | Jones | F | 11.5 |
| 10 | Nakanishi | A | 96.8 |
| 11 | DeSaulnier | F | 12.3 |
| 12 | Ma | F | 14.7 |
| 13 | Leno | F | 13.5 |
| 14 | Hancock | F | 7.9 |
| 15 | Houston | C | 74 |
| 16 | Swanson | F | 8.8 |
| 17 | Galgiani | D | 37.5 |
| 18 | Hayashi | F | 8.1 |
| 19 | Mullin | F | 8.6 |
| 20 | Torrico | F | 9.4 |
| 21 | Ruskin | F | 6.7 |
| 22 | Lieber | F | 12.5 |
| 23 | Coto | F | 9.1 |
| 24 | Beall | F | 8.6 |
| 25 | Berryhill | B | 82.8 |
| 26 | Aghazarian | C | 71.7 |
| 27 | Laird | F | 9 |
| 28 | Caballero | F | 15.8 |
| 29 | Villines | A | 90.6 |
| 30 | Parra | F | 23.5 |
| 31 | Arambula | F | 7.9 |
| 32 | Fuller | A | 93.3 |
| 33 | Blakeslee | A | 91.2 |
| 34 | Maze | A | 94.1 |
| 35 | Nava | F | 9.6 |
| 36 | Runner* | 0 | |
| 37 | Strickland | A | 100 |
| 38 | Smyth | A | 93.8 |
| 39 | Fuentes | F | 9.7 |
| 40 | Levine | F | 12.8 |
| 41 | Brownley | F | 7.7 |
| 42 | Feuer | F | 10.5 |
| 43 | Krekorian | F | 9 |
| 44 | Portantino | F | 7 |
| 45 | De Leon | F | 9.4 |
| 46 | Nunez | F | 14.1 |
| 47 | Bass | F | 9.7 |
| 48 | Davis | F | 15.5 |
| 49 | Eng | F | 7.1 |
| 50 | De La Torre | F | 10.5 |
| 51 | Price | F | 11.4 |
| 52 | Dymally | F | 14.1 |
| 53 | Lieu | F | 21.2 |
| 54 | Karnette | F | 11.8 |
| 55 | Furutani | F | 9.8 |
| 56 | Mendoza | F | 16.2 |
| 57 | Hernandez | F | 11.7 |
| 58 | Calderon | F | 22.9 |
| 59 | Adams | B | 82.5 |
| 60 | Huff | B | 88.1 |
| 61 | Soto* | 0 | |
| 62 | Carter | F | 8.3 |
| 63 | Emmerson | A | 92.8 |
| 64 | Benoit | A | 91.4 |
| 65 | Cook | B | 81.4 |
| 66 | Jeffries | A | 98.5 |
| 67 | Silva | A | 97 |
| 68 | Tran | B | 86.4 |
| 69 | Solorio | F | 13.8 |
| 70 | DeVore | A | 98.7 |
| 71 | Spitzer | A | 90.9 |
| 72 | Duvall | A | 96.6 |
| 73 | Walters | A | 100 |
| 74 | Garrick | A | 94.3 |
| 75 | Plescia | C | 77.9 |
| 76 | Saldana | F | 14.2 |
| 77 | Anderson | A | 100 |
| 78 | Horton | B | 80.2 |
| 79 | Salas | F | 9.4 |
| 80 | Garcia | B | 86 |
| District | Senator | Grade | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cox | B | 82.8 |
| 2 | Wiggins | F | 8.3 |
| 3 | Migden | F | 4.8 |
| 4 | Aanestad | A | 97 |
| 5 | Machado | D | 57.6 |
| 6 | Steinberg | F | 5.6 |
| 7 | Torlakson | F | 8.6 |
| 8 | Yee | F | 8.9 |
| 9 | Perata | F | 4.8 |
| 10 | Corbett | F | 6.6 |
| 11 | Simitian | F | 4.7 |
| 12 | Denham | B | 87.5 |
| 13 | Alquist | F | 7.4 |
| 14 | Cogdill | A | 92 |
| 15 | Maldonado | C | 77.6 |
| 16 | Florez | F | 6.1 |
| 17 | Runner* | B | 81.1 |
| 18 | Ashburn | B | 82.1 |
| 19 | McClintock | A | 90.3 |
| 20 | Padilla | F | 4.2 |
| 21 | Scott | F | 7.4 |
| 22 | Cedillo | F | 6.4 |
| 23 | Kuehl | F | 5.6 |
| 24 | Romero | F | 6.3 |
| 25 | Vincent* | 0 | |
| 26 | Ridley-Thomas | F | 16.7 |
| 27 | Lowenthal | F | 3 |
| 28 | Oropeza | F | 8.3 |
| 29 | Margett | B | 81 |
| 30 | Calderon | F | 12.5 |
| 31 | Dutton | B | 87.8 |
| 32 | Negrete McLeod | D | 31.8 |
| 33 | Ackerman | A | 90 |
| 34 | Correa | C | 60 |
| 35 | Harman | B | 83.4 |
| 36 | Hollingsworth | A | 98.2 |
| 37 | Battin | A | 93.8 |
| 38 | Wyland | A | 92.4 |
| 39 | Kehoe | F | 6.5 |
| 40 | Ducheny | F | 16 |
NOTE:
* Assembly Members Runner and Soto, and Senators Runner and Vincent, missed an extensive number of votes for illness or personal reasons. Missed votes can have an impact on the final grade and make the results a less reliable measure of a lawmaker's true attitude regarding taxpayer issues.
Those legislators who carried HJTA-sponsored pro-taxpayer legislation (Assembly Members Benoit, DeVore, Duvall and Gaines) received one extra '+' mark.
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