Doug LaMalfa (born July 2 1960, Oroville, California) has represented California's 2nd Assembly District in the California State Assembly since December 2002. He is a Republican. LaMalfa represents one of the biggest assembly districts when it comes to square miles. Prior to being elected to the Assembly, LaMalfa was a rice farmer and a community activist.

Background

LaMalfa is a fourth generation rice farmer who has lived in Northern California all his life. He and his wife, Jill, along with their four children, Kyle, Allison, Sophia and Natalie make their home on the family farm in Richvale, California. LaMalfa attended local schools. LaMalfa graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a Bachelors Degree in Ag/Business. He and his father Milt manage the family farming business originally founded by his great-grandfather in 1931.

LaMalfa was elected as a founding director of the California Rice Commission from Butte County. LaMalfa also served on the Domestic Promotion Committee of the USA Rice Federation. He was chairman of the Richvale Foundation Boosters, an organization dedicated to maintaining the profitability of the Richvale Café a community meeting facility.

The 2nd Assembly District

The district includes Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Colusa, Yolo, and Sutter Counties, and part of Butte County. He represents the cities of Alturas, Anderson, Arbuckle, Biggs, Burney, Colusa, Corning, Dunsmuir, Esparto, Hamilton City, Orland, Red Bluff, Redding, Richvale, Shasta, Tulelake, Weed, Williams, Willows, Yreka, and Yuba City.

Assembly member

LaMalfa's voting record and political rhetoric suggests that LaMalfa is a staunch conservative. LaMalfa has opposed regulations that place fish and fairy shrimp. He is against increasing taxes and has opposed new utility taxes in his own county. He worked with Bernie Richter as a key early supporter of Proposition 209 that ended affirmative action in California. He also worked for passage of the Protection of Marriage Act, Proposition 22 that banned gay marriage in California. LaMalfa is a strong supporter of private property rights. He authored ACA 22 to protect private property owners from government abuse of eminent domain. He also wrote the Forest Fire Protection Act of 2004 to allow landowners to make their rural lands fire-safe and without forest management. LaMalfa's believes in limited government and that government should do only what people can't.

LaMalfa has opposed many bills supported by the democratic controlled California legislature. He opposed Mike Feuer's microstamping bill, AB 1471 http://www.redding.com/news/2007/jun/07/legislator-sets-sights-useless-expensive-law/. He opposed Speaker Fabian Nunez's bill AB 8 that was designed to mandate business's of a certain size to provide health insurance to their employees http://www.flashreport.org/blog.php?authID=2006042808053672.

In 2007, LaMalfa proposed Assembly Bill 1640 which replaced the term "idiot" with the phrase "persons who are mentally incapacitated" in the penal code as one of six classes of people incapable of committing crimes.

2006 Assembly Election

LaMalfa won over 68% of all votes cast in his 2006 reelection race against Democrat Melvin Smith http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/stasm/0259.htm.

Future Aspirations

La Malfa has a filed a Statement of Intent to run for the 4th District Senate seat in 2010 when Sam Aanestad is termed out. Rick Keene, who like La Malfa was termed out in 2006 also had filed such a statement indicating that he plans to run.

References

• http://republican.assembly.ca.gov/members/index.asp?Dist=2&Lang=1&Body=Bio
• http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/makebio.asp?district=2

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