Capitol Weekly has released its second annual ranking of ideology among state legislators, based on their votes on bills that have come up over the past year.

Seven Assembly members, all Republicans, got a score of zero on a scale of zero to 100 on how liberal their voting record appeared to be. Four Republican state Senators also received that score.

At the other end, 16 Assembly members and 10 state Senators - all Democrats - received a score of 100, indicating they voted in liberal fashion as often as possible.

The rankings noted that because Democrats control both chambers of the state legislature, most bills that come up for votes are sponsored by Democrats. In both chambers, no Democrat was ranked less liberal than any Republican counterpart.

Legislators whose scores reflected a more moderate voting record in many cases represent a district that's in play for both parties in the November election, a rarity in California and its heavily-gerrymandered districts.

In the Assembly, among the higher-scored Republicans were Greg Aghazarian (R-Stockton) and Shirley Horton (R-Chula Vista). The second-lowest scored Democrat was Assemblywoman Nicole Parra (D-Hanford).

All three legislators are termed out and both parties have targeted those districts as potential pickups for their side.

State Sen. Mike Machado (D-Linden) had the second-lowest score of any Democrat, and he is termed out of the 5th Senate District seat, another target of both parties this fall.

The two candidates for that seat, Aghazarian and termed-out Assemblywoman Lois Wolk (D-Davis), are both ranked as relative moderates.

Capitol Weekly also noted that all four legislative leaders are at the far ends of the ideological rankings, suggesting that may help explain the ongoing delay in passing a state budget for 2008-09.