HALFWAY TO CONCORD » report card http://www.halfwaytoconcord.com Contra Costa News, Politics, Business, Events Calendar Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:58:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Contra Costa taxpayer groups release report cards for State reps http://www.halfwaytoconcord.com/contra-costa-taxpayer-groups-release-report-cards-for-state-reps/ http://www.halfwaytoconcord.com/contra-costa-taxpayer-groups-release-report-cards-for-state-reps/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:42:37 +0000 admin http://halfwaytoconcord.com/?p=986 The Contra Costa County Taxpayers published the report card grades for local state reprentatives based on their fiduciary duties to represent taxpayers. Here are the results:

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association (www.hjta.org) has released its Legislative Report Card for 2007: state lawmakers from our area were rated as follows:

- Senator Tom Torlakson = F
- Assemblyman Mark DeSaulnier = F
- Assemblywoman Loni Hancock = F
- Assemblyman Guy Houston = A

The California Taxpayers Association (www.caltax.org), which has been around since 1926, recently issued its annual Cal-Tax Voting Record on the bills they considered most important. State lawmakers from our area took the same position advocation by CalTax in the following percentages:

- Senator Tom Torlakson = 0%
- Assemblyman Mark DeSaulnier = 17%
- Assemblywoman Loni Hancock = 13%
- Assemblyman Guy Houston = 100%

The California Chamber ranked how these member voted for Chamber backed legislation

- Senator Tom Torlakson = 1 of 14
- Assemblyman Mark DeSaulnier = 1 of 14
- Assemblywoman Loni Hancock = 3 of 14
- Assemblyman Guy Houston = 14 of 14

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