Doug LaMalfa

Doug LaMalfa
Member of the California State Senate from the 4th district
Incumbent
Assumed office December 6, 2010
Preceded by	Sam Aanestad
Member of the California State Assembly from the 2nd district
In office December 2, 2002 – December 1, 2008
Preceded by	Richard Dickerson
Succeeded by	Jim Nielsen
Personal details
Born	July 2, 1960 (1960-07-02) (age 51) Oroville, California
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Jill LaMalfa
Children	Kyle Allison Sophia Natalie
Residence	Richvale, California
Alma mater	Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Profession	Rice farmer
Religion	Christian

Doug LaMalfa (born July 2, 1960, in Oroville, California) is an American politician currently serving in the California State Senate. He is a Republican representing the 4th district, encompassing Del Norte, Siskiyou, Shasta, Trinity, Tehama, Butte, Glenn, Colusa, Sutter, and Yuba counties, as well as parts of Nevada and Placer counties. Prior to his election to the state senate, he served in the California State Assembly, representing the 2nd district.

Background

LaMalfa is a fourth generation rice farmer and a lifelong Northern California resident. He and his wife, Jill, along with their four children, make their home on the family farm in Richvale, California. LaMalfa graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor's degree in Ag/Business. He manages 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.

LaMalfa is an owner and manager of the Dsl Lamalfa Family Partnership.

Assembly history

LaMafla worked with Bernie Richter as a 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 and when that initiative was overturned by the courts he was an early supporter and active in the Prop 8 campaign. LaMalfa 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 opposed Mike Feuer's microstamping bill, AB 1471, which was signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on October 13, 2007.^[1] He opposed then-Speaker Fabian Núñez's bill AB 8 that was designed to mandate businesses of a certain size to provide health insurance to their employees.

LaMalfa was a co-author of ACA 20 which, similar to Arizona's new law would empower law enforcement to act as Immigration, Customs Enforcement Agents and would have cracked down on illegal immigration.^[2] ACA 20 failed to pass the first hearing by a 3 to 6 vote.

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. LaMalfa was named the California Rifle and Pistol Associations "Legislator of the Year".

Electoral history

LaMalfa won over 68% of all votes cast in his 2006 assembly reelection race against Democrat Melvin Smith.^[3]

On June 8, 2010 Doug LaMalfa defeated Rick Keene 57.8% - 42.2% in a hotly contested election where he was significantly outspent.

On November 2, 2010 LaMalfa defeated Lathe Gill by a margin of 68.0%-32.0% to replace term-limited Sam Aanestad in the California State Senate.

References

1. ^ http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1471_bill_20071013_chaptered.html
2. ^ http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/05-06/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/aca_20_bill_20050628_amended_asm.html
3. ^ http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/stasm/0259.htm

External links

• Senator Doug LaMalfa (official website)
• Doug LaMalfa for Senate (campaign website)
• Environmental Working Group Farm Subsidy Database for Dsl Lamalfa Family Partnership.

California Senate
Preceded by Sam Aanestad	Member of the California State Senate 4th District December 6, 2010 – present	Incumbent
California Assembly
Preceded by Richard Dickerson	Member of the California State Assembly 2nd District 2002–2008	Succeeded by Jim Nielsen

Persondata
Name	LaMalfa, Doug
Alternative names
Short description	California state senator
Date of birth	July 2, 1960
Place of birth	Oroville, California
Date of death
Place of death