As I mentioned on Monday when we started a process of figuring out where California’s 45 Republican State Legislators stand on Proposition1A, we would be keeping you updated.  Since Monday, we’ve heard from Assemblyman Steve Knight’s office that he has been an opponent of 1A for some time, and also from Connie Conway that she opposes the measure.  Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee’s office has said that he does not take positions on ballot measures.

Currently two-thirds of Senate GOPers oppose 1A.  On the Assembly side, it’s three short of that mark — with six unknowns…

Below is the current tally:

Ten State Senate Republicans are publicly opposed to Proposition 1A:  Sam Aanestad, John Benoit, Jeff Denham, Bob Dutton, Tom Harman, Dennis Hollingsworth, George Runner, Tony Strickland, Mimi Walters, and Mark Wyland.

Four Republican Senators are publicly supporting Proposition 1A:  Roy Ashburn, Dave Cogdill, Bob Huff, and Abel Maldonado.

One Republican Senator has no public position on 1A:  Dave Cox.

Seventeen Assembly Republicans are publicly opposed to Proposition 1A: Joel Anderson, Connie Conway, Chuck DeVore, Mike Duvall, Ted Gaines, Martin Garrick, Curt Hagman, Diane Harkey, Kevin Jeffries, Steve Knight, Dan Logue, Jeff Miller, Brian Nestande, Jim Silva, Cameron Smyth, Audra Strickland and Van Tran.

Three Assembly Republicans publicly support Proposition 1A: Anthony Adams, Roger Niello, and Mike Villines.

Three Assembly Republicans have no public position on 1A: Sam Blakeslee, Paul Cook and Nathan Fletcher.

We are still in the process of connecting up with six legislators, to ascertain their positions on 1A, and will update this list as we do so: Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Bill Emmerson, Jean Fuller, Danny Gilmore, and Jim Nielson.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.