Doug LaMalfa is a fourth generation rice farmer who has lived in Northern California all his life. He and his wife, Jill, along with their two children, Kyle and Allison, make their home on the family farm in Richvale. He was first elected the Assembly in 2002 to represent the people of the 2nd Assembly District.
Assemblyman LaMalfa attended local schools and grew up learning the value of hard work and community service. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Ag/Business from Cal-Poly, San Luis Obispo. He and his father Milt manage the family farming business originally founded by his great-grandfather in 1931.
An active leader in the agriculture industry, he was elected as a founding director of the California Rice Commission from Butte County. Assemblyman LaMalfa also served on the Domestic Promotion Committee of the USA Rice Federation. He is chairman of the Richvale Foundation Boosters, an organization dedicated to maintaining the profitability of the Richvale Caf� a community meeting facility.
Water is our most precious resource and Assemblyman LaMalfa believes in protecting our water rights and developing more water storage. He strongly opposes burdensome and ill-conceived environmental regulations that place fish and fairy shrimp above human concerns.
Agriculture is the backbone of our northern California economy and Assemblyman LaMalfa is a strong advocate for our vital farming industries.
A staunch believer in reducing the tax burden on working families, Assemblyman LaMalfa knows that taxpayers DO in fact know better than bureaucrats and politicians how to spend and invest their own hard-earned money. He was a leader in opposing new utility taxes in his own county. Assemblyman LaMalfa will oppose any new taxes to cover the state's looming $15 billion budget deficit that has resulted from the mishandled power crisis.
Doug LaMalfa supports strong law enforcement and returning state tax dollars back to counties to put more sheriff's deputies on the street.
As an active political leader in his community, Doug LaMalfa championed the law to lock up repeat violent criminals. He stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the late Assemblyman Bernie Richter as a key early supporter of Proposition 209, that ended race, gender and ethnic quotas in California. He also worked for passage of the Protection of Marriage Act, Proposition. 22, that helped safeguard traditional marriage in California.
Assemblyman LaMalfa's firm beliefs are that the government should first do no harm, and that government should provide, in the most efficient manner possible, only those essential services that individuals and families cannot provide for themselves.