Английская Википедия:Doug LaMalfa

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Redirect Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Douglas Lee LaMalfa (Шаблон:IPAc-en Шаблон:Respell; born July 2, 1960) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 1st congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, his district, formerly the second-largest in the state after the 8th (now largely the 23rd), covers nearly all of interior Northern California, including Chico, Redding, and Susanville.

A native of Oroville, LaMalfa was the California State Assemblyman for the 2nd district from 2002 to 2008 and California State Senator from the 4th district from 2010 to 2012.

Early life, education, and career

LaMalfa is a fourth-generation rice farmer and lifelong Northern California resident.[1] He graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor's degree in agricultural business.[2]

California Assembly

Elections

In 2002, LaMalfa ran for the California Assembly in the 2nd District. He won the Republican primary with 59% of the vote,[3] and the general election with 67%.[4] He was reelected in 2004 (68%)[5] and 2006 (68%).[6]

Tenure

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LaMalfa being presented the True Blue award by FRC President Tony Perkins

LaMalfa worked with Bernie Richter as an early supporter of Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in California. He worked for passage of the Protection of Marriage Act, Proposition 22, which banned same-sex marriage in California, and after the California Supreme Court overturned that initiative in In re Marriage Cases, he was an early supporter of and active in the Proposition 8 campaign, an initiative that would overturn the court ruling and again ban same-sex marriage.[7][8] In June 2008, he urged voters to approve Proposition 8, saying "This is an opportunity to take back a little bit of dignity ... for kids, for all of us in California. It really disturbs me that the will of the people was overridden by four members of the Supreme Court."[9]

LaMalfa opposed Mike Feuer's microstamping bill, AB 1471, which Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law on October 13, 2007.[10]

LaMalfa was a co-author of ACA 20, which would empower law enforcement to act as Immigration, Customs Enforcement Agents and would have cracked down on illegal immigration.[11]

In 2007, LaMalfa successfully passed AB 1645, a law that would prevent seizures of firearms in the event of an emergency or natural disaster. This was the first pro-gun legislation passed and signed into law in a decade. When he was named the California Rifle and Pistol Association's "Legislator of the Year" for 2007, LaMalfa said, "Receiving this award today from the California Rifle and Pistol Association is a truly humbling honor."[12]

Committee assignments

  • Joint Committee on Legislative Audit[13]
  • Public Safety[14]
  • West Nile virus[15]

California Senate

2010 election

In 2010, LaMalfa ran for the California State Senate in the 4th District. In the Republican primary, he defeated State Assemblyman Rick Keene 58%–42%.[16] In the general election, he defeated Lathe Gill 68%–32%.[17]

Tenure

In November 2011, LaMalfa opposed a proposed bullet train, saying, "In light of the High Speed Rail plan that was submitted and that the numbers still do not work, California in this dire fiscal crisis that we're in, we're going to introduce legislation to repeal the HSR Authority and the funding for that the state was going to put forward".[18]

LaMalfa opposed a bill that would require history teachers in all California public schools to teach history of homosexuality and gay civil rights. He said that Governor Jerry Brown was "out of touch with what I think are still mainstream American values. That's not the kind of stuff I want my kids learning about in public school. They've really crossed a line into a new frontier."[19]

LaMalfa strongly opposed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would bypass the Electoral College, saying, "I think this is dangerous. It flies in the face of 220 years of election law. We have an electoral college; it was put there for a reason."[20]

Committee assignments

  • Agriculture
  • Budget and Fiscal Review
  • Elections and Constitutional Amendments (Vice Chair)
  • Governance and Finance
  • Natural Resources and Water (Vice Chair)
  • Veterans Affairs
  • Joint Committee on Legislative Audit
  • Joint Committee on Fairs, Allocation, and Classification (Chair)
  • Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture[21]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2012

Шаблон:Main In January 2012, 2nd district Congressman Wally Herger announced that he was retiring after 13 terms. Hours after his announcement, Republican consultant Dave Gilliard told Flash Report that Herger had endorsed LaMalfa as his successor. Herger's district was renumbered the 1st in the 2010 round of redistricting.[22] LaMalfa's state senate district was largely coextensive with the western portion of the congressional district.

LaMalfa finished first in the June 2012 Republican primary election with 38% of the vote in an eight-person race, winning 10 of the district's 11 counties.[23]

On November 6, 2012, LaMalfa defeated Democratic Party nominee Jim Reed 57%–43%.[24]

2014

Шаблон:Main LaMalfa defeated Democratic nominee Heidi Hall in the general election with 61% of the vote.[25]

2016

Шаблон:Main In the 2016 general election, LaMalfa defeated Democratic nominee Jim Reed with 59.1% of the vote.[26]

2018

Шаблон:Main There were many candidates in the primary contest, including four candidates expressing preference for the Democratic party, two candidates expressing preference for the Republican party (including LaMalfa), and one candidate expressing preference for the Green Party of the United States. LaMalfa and Audrey Denney (who preferred the Democratic party) were the top two candidates in the primary, earning 51.7% and 17.9% of the vote respectively.[27]

During the general election, LaMalfa's campaign sent out an attack mailer showing a falsified picture of Denney signing a document endorsing Nancy Pelosi and liberal Democrats. In February 2018, Denney uploaded the original photograph to her campaign website; it showed her signing a promise to oppose campaign contributions from the petroleum industry. LaMalfa's campaign altered the wording on the document in its mailer.[28]

LaMalfa defeated Denney in the November 6 general election, with 54.9% of the 291,594 votes cast to Denney's 45.1%.

2020

Шаблон:Main LaMalfa defeated Denney in a general-election rematch with 57.0% of the vote to her 43.0%.

2022

Шаблон:Main LaMalfa defeated Max Steiner, who described himself as a "moderate Democrat", with 62.1% of the 246,225 votes cast to Steiner's 37.9%.[29][30] During the campaign, Steiner attacked LaMalfa's support for election fraud claims and his vote against certifying President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.[31]

In the 2022 race, 63% of LaMalfa's campaign contributions came from inside his state, with 25% coming from inside his district.[32]

Committee assignments

For the 118th Congress:[33]

Caucus memberships

Political positions

Abortion

LaMalfa supported the overturning of Roe v. Wade. He called Roe v. Wade "partisan" and said it "does not represent the values of our country."[38]

Climate change

Public statements made by LaMalfa have demonstrated a misinterpretation or misunderstanding of climate change. In a back and forth with Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, LaMalfa conflated the climate with the seasons. “This one called is autumn, sir”, he said in response to Buttigieg saying that we are already experiencing the effects of the climate changing.[39]

LaMalfa has said, "The climate of the globe has been fluctuating since God created it", and that the Book of Genesis disproves the scientific consensus on climate change, which he has called "bad science".[40][41] In 2017, he said, "I don't buy the idea that man-made activity is responsible." In 2018, amid wildfires, LaMalfa said, "I'm not going to quibble here today about whether it's man, or sunspot activity, or magma causing ice shelves to melt." He suggested the wildfires were due to poor land management by state and federal agencies.[42]

LaMalfa's February 2024 claim that Шаблон:CO2 cannot cause climate change—because it is only 0.04% of the atmosphere—was soon fact-checked as false and misleading, given the scientifically known strong effect of even small concentrations of that greenhouse gas on climate.[43][44]

Donald Trump

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LaMalfa with President Donald Trump in November 2018

During President Donald Trump's first impeachment, LaMalfa voted against impeachment, believing that Trump did not do anything that warranted impeachment, including during his phone call with the President of Ukraine.[45]

After Trump lost the 2020 election and refused to concede, LaMalfa claimed that "the circumstances surrounding this presidential election point to a fraudulent outcome."[46] In December 2020, LaMalfa was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives who signed an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated[47] Trump. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.[48][49][50]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "election subversion."[51][52]

On January 7, 2021, following the storming of the U.S. Capitol building by Trump supporters, LaMalfa and six other California representatives voted to reject the certification of Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election.[53]

Race

After the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, LaMalfa stayed silent on the matter for five days until finally expressing disappointment upon being questioned on the incident.[54]

After the passing of a defense spending bill with a provision aiming to weed out white supremacy from military and federal law enforcement, LaMalfa expressed concerns it would turn into a witch hunt and that racism will always exist.[55] He also claimed it is not Congress's job to deal with racism in the government.[55]

In June 2021, LaMalfa was one of 14 House Republicans to vote against legislation to establish Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery, as a federal holiday. The House passed the resolution with a vote of 415-14, while it passed in the Senate 100-0.[56]

Joe Biden

As of October 2021, LaMalfa had voted in line with Joe Biden's stated position 9.3% of the time.[57]

Farming

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LaMalfa with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue (left), August 2018
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LaMalfa with fellow Representatives Drew Ferguson (left) and Roger Marshall (right) in an agriculture meeting, December 2018

From 1995 to 2016, LaMalfa's own farm received the largest amount of public assistance money from agricultural subsidies (over $1.7 million) in the history of Congress. As a member of the House Agricultural Committee, LaMalfa oversees farm subsidies, presenting a conflict of interest. In 2017, his spokesman, Parker Williams, said that LaMalfa "voted to end direct farm subsidy payments in the very first farm bill he worked on" and that a new farm bill proposed does not provide subsidies for rice grown in California, a crop that LaMalfa farms.[58]Шаблон:Failed verification He supported the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest.[59]

LGBT rights

LaMalfa opposes same-sex marriage and has said that legalizing it would "open the floodgates" for polygamy to be legalized. He has said that marriage is "an institution created by God and supposed to be held up and respected by men and women."[60] He endorsed the First Amendment Defense Act, which, among other things, sought to criminalize same-sex intercourse.[61] In 2015, LaMalfa co-sponsored a resolution to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.[62] On July 19, 2022, he voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that would protect the right to same-sex marriage at a federal level.[63][64]

Voter fraud

LaMalfa has said, "California is just a sieve on its voter security." Speaking about his own district, he said, "There's a percentage of illegal votes, probably in every district. Is it high here? Probably not. We don't really have the demographics that would be a really big push of that."[65]

Taxes

LaMalfa voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.[66] According to him, the bill will enable his constituents to save more money and give them tax relief. He said that the bill will give a "booster shot to the U.S. economy", enable businesses to hire more workers, and cause more products to be made in the USA, especially in Redding.[67]

Colleagues

In November 2021, after Representative Paul Gosar shared an animated video of himself killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden, LaMalfa voted against Gosar's censure.[68]

Defense

In September 2021, LaMalfa was among 75 House Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022, which contains a provision that would require women to be drafted.[69][70]

Crime

LaMalfa has expressed support for prosecuting minors charged with felonies as adults and has supported the construction of additional juvenile detention centers.[71]

Education

LaMalfa supports posting the Ten Commandments in public schools.[72] In 2013, he co-sponsored the Abstinence Education Reallocation Act, which sought to teach abstinence in public schools.[73]

Immigration

LaMalfa sponsored H.R. 6202, the American Tech Workforce Act of 2021, introduced by Representative Jim Banks. The legislation would establish a wage floor for the high-skill H-1B visa program, thereby significantly reducing employer dependence on the program. The bill would also eliminate the Optional Practical Training program that allows foreign graduates to stay and work in the United States.[74]

Ukraine

In August 2023 Doug LaMalfa was the sole California Republican to vote in favor of Amendment 22 of H.R. 2670 to prohibit all security assistance to Ukraine.[75] Additionally LaMalfa was the only California Republican to vote for Amendment 21 to cancel $300 million of assistance for Ukraine.[76]

Electoral history

California Assembly 2nd District Republican Primary Election, 2002
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa 32,004 58.80
Republican Pat Kight 12,467 22.90
Republican John Byrne 8,131 14.90
Republican Dan Ryhal 1,863 3.40
California Assembly 2nd District Election, 2002
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa 79,361 67.40
Democratic Doug Kinyon 34,524 29.30
Libertarian Pete Bret 3,996 3.30
California Assembly 2nd District Election, 2004
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa (inc.) 115,651 64.90
Democratic Barbara McIver 62,643 35.10
California Assembly 2nd District Election, 2006
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa (inc.) 95,723 68.10
Democratic Mel Smith 41,425 29.50
Peace and Freedom Phil Dynan 3,474 2.40
California Senate 4th District Republican Primary Election, 2010
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa 72,742 57.80
Republican Rick Keene 53,129 42.20
California Senate 4th District Election, 2010
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa 226,239 68.30
Democratic Lathe Gill 105,460 31.70
California 1st Congressional District Primary Election, 2012
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa 66,527 37.90
Democratic Jim Reed 43,409 24.80
Republican Sam Aanestad 25,224 14.40
Republican Michael Dacquisto 10,530 6.00
Republican Pete Stiglich 10,258 5.80
Democratic Nathan Arrowsmith 8,598 4.90
Independent Gary Allen Oxley 5,901 3.40
Republican Gregory Cheadle 4,939 2.80
California 1st Congressional District Election, 2012
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa 168,827 57.40
Democratic Jim Reed 125,386 42.60
California 1st Congressional District Primary Election, 2014
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa (inc.) 75,317 53.40
Democratic Heidi Hall 42,481 30.10
Republican Gregory Cheadle 13,909 9.90
Democratic Dan Levine 9,213 6.50
California 1st Congressional District Election, 2014
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa (inc.) 132,052 61.00
Democratic Heidi Hall 84,320 39.00
California 1st Congressional District Primary Election, 2016
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa (inc.) 86,136 40.80
Democratic Jim Reed 59,665 28.30
Republican Joe Montes 35,875 17.00
Democratic David Peterson 13,430 6.40
Republican Gary Allen Oxley 6,885 3.30
Independent Jeff Gerlach 4,958 2.30
Republican Gregory Cheadle 4,217 2.00
California 1st Congressional District Election, 2016
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa (inc.) 185,448 59.05
Democratic Jim Reed 128,588 40.95
California 1st Congressional District Primary Election, 2018
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa (inc.) 98,354 51.7
Democratic Audrey Denney 34,121 17.9
Democratic Jessica Jones Holcombe 22,306 11.7
Democratic Marty Walters 16,032 8.4
Republican Gregory Edward Cheadle 11,660 6.1
Democratic David Peterson 5,707 3.0
Green Lewis Elbinger 2,191 1.2
California 1st Congressional District Election, 2018
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa (inc.) 160,046 54.9
Democratic Audrey Denney 131,548 45.1
California 1st Congressional District Election, 2020
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa (inc.) 204,190 57.00
Democratic Audrey Denney 154,073 43.00

Personal life

LaMalfa is married to Jill LaMalfa. They have four children. LaMalfa commutes weekly from California to Washington, D.C.[45] He is an owner and manager of the DSL LaMalfa Family Partnership, which owns and operates the family rice farm in Richvale, California.[58][77] LaMalfa employs a farm manager who runs the farm while he is in Washington.[45]

LaMalfa has donated over $100,000 to his own campaigns and other Republican Party causes and candidates.[78] As of 2018, he has a net worth of nearly $3.5 million.[79] LaMalfa is a Christian.[80]

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