In formulating our 2008 political strategy (read more about it here), we analyzed how our election victories in 2006 translated into legislative success in 2007. Our wins against well-financed anti-environmental challengers in key races around the state resulted in more environmental votes:

• Twelve CLCV-endorsed legislators significantly improved on their predecessors’ records, by an average of more than 30 percentage points.

  District	Previous Member	2006 Score	Current Member	2007 Score	Improvement
  AD 11	Canciamilla	52%	DeSaulnier	100%	+48%
  AD 12	Yee	86%	Ma	100%	+14%
  AD 24	Cohn	82%	Beall Jr.	100%	+18%
  AD 43	Frommer	85%	Krekorian	100%	+15%
  AD 57	Chavez	70%	Hernandez	90%	+20%
  AD 61	Negrete McLeod	48%	Soto	100%	+52%
  AD 62	Baca Jr.	64%	Carter	95%	+31%
  AD 69	Umberg	65%	Solorio	95%	+30%
  AD 79	Vargas	78%	Salas	95%	+17%
  SD 6	Ortiz	87%	Steinberg	100%	+13%
  SD 26	Murray	65%	Ridley-Thomas	100%	+35%
  CD 11	Pombo	17%	McNerney	90%	+73%

• Eleven freshman Assembly members and five first-year State Senators endorsed by CLCV earned perfect scores by voting for all of the environmental community’s top priority bills in 2007. (See the 2007 California Environmental Scorecard “Snapshot of the Numbers” section for more details.)

Read about this year’s electoral strategy.