Denham, J Rep

=dingdong rev drJeffrey John Denham (born July 29, 1967) is an American politician, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">United States Air Force</a> veteran, and businessman. A member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Republican Party</a>, he served as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">U.S. representative</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="California's 10th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">California's 10th congressional district</a> from 2013 to 2019. Denham first won election to the U.S. House in 2010, representing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_19th_congressional_district" title="California's 19th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">California's 19th congressional district</a> for one term before redistricting led him to run in the 10th district in 2012.From 2002 to 2010, Denham served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate" title="California State Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">California State Senate</a>, representing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_12th_State_Senate_district" title="California's 12th State Senate district" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">12th District</a>, which includes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madera_County,California" title="Madera County, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Madera</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merced_County,California" title="Merced County, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Merced</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_County,California" title="Monterey County, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Monterey</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Benito_County,California" title="San Benito County, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">San Benito</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaus_County,California" title="Stanislaus County, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Stanislaus</a> counties. Prior to seeking political office, Denham served on active and reserve status in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">United States Air Force</a> for 16 years, and served in both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Operation Desert Storm</a> in Iraq and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Task_Force" title="Unified Task Force" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Operation Restore Hope</a> in Somalia.During his congressional tenure, Denham was active in immigration issues, notably in the effort to draft and pass legislation that would successfully resolve the status of Dreamers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-latimes-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-nytimes-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-independent-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[3]</a>Denham was narrowly defeated in his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California%27s_10th_congressional_district_election" title="2018 California's 10th congressional district election" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">2018 bid</a> for re-election by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Democrat</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Harder" title="Josh Harder" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Josh Harder</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a> and became a lobbyist for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%26L_Gates" title="K&L Gates" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">K&L Gates</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[5]</a>California Republicans faced a full-blown disaster in the midterm elections. In the south of the state, Reps. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/katie-hill-wins-california-25th-house-district-over-rep-steve-knight.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Steve Knight</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/11/12/a-not-so-fond-farewell-to-dana-rohrabacher-putins-best-friend-in-congress/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Dana Rohrabacher</a> of California's 25th and 48th Congressional Districts were unseated, Rep. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california-house-district-45" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mimi Walters</a> of the 45th District is trailing with more votes left to count, Democrats picked up outgoing Rep. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/12/democrat-mike-levin-is-the-apparent-winner-of-california-house-district-49-nbc-news.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Darrell Issa's</a> open 49th District, and will probably also net Rep. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california-house-district-39" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ed Royce's</a> open 39th District as well.But another huge red flag for the GOP was in the north of the state, where they lost another seat: Rep. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/democrat-josh-harder-wins-us-house-seat-in-california-farm-belt-defeats-4-term-republican-rep-jeff-denham/2018/11/13/18098ae6-e7b4-11e8-8449-1ff263609a31_story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Denham</a>, who represents California's 10th District in the northern San Joaquin Valley, lost to venture capitalist Josh Harder.In one sense, this race was like many of the other Democratic pickups in California. Harder aggressively <a href="https://time.com/5454052/california-jeff-denham-josh-harder-house-election/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">tied</a> Denham to his vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Denham, aware his district voted for Hillary Clinton, <a href="https://www.modbee.com/news/politics-government/election/article218568320.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">played up</a> his opposition to President Donald Trump's immigration agenda and tried to run as a moderate, even though he voted with Trump <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/jeff-denham/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">98 percent of the time</a>.But in another sense, this race — and this district — is a bellwether for broader cultural and demographic trends that are isolating Trump supporters and turning the suburbs from a GOP bastion into a Democratic one.California's 10th District is home to many rural farming communities that produce much of America's agriculture. The Central Valley is full of such communities, which tend to be very conservative and distrustful of the urban coasts — other districts in this region include the 22nd and 23rd held by GOP Reps. <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/election/local-election/article221174075.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Devin Nunes</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california-house-district-23" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Kevin McCarthy</a>, who decisively won their elections, and the 21st held by <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/political-notebook/article221538160.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">David Valadao</a>, who is favored to win but whose heavily-Latino district is extremely close.One of the big differences with the 10th District is that it sits directly to the east of the Bay Area. The region's <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/07/06/bay-area-hot-job-growth-home-prices.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hyper-competitive job growth</a>, combined with decades of <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90242388/the-bad-design-that-created-one-of-americas-worst-housing-crises" style="text-decoration-line: none;">anti-poor, anti-minority "not in my backyard" zoning laws</a>, has resulted in a housing affordability crisis in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, with the median home price in the Bay Area soaring to <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/22/median-price-tag-for-a-bay-area-home-hits-a-record-shattering-935000/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">over $900,000</a>. As a consequence, upper-middle-class professionals in the region are pushing outward in search of affordable living, and people are increasingly choosing to move all the way out to the San Joaquin Valley and endure a <a href="https://www.pacific.edu/Documents/school-business/BFC/Analyst-Spotlight%20Archive/2015%20RA/2015%20Commuting%20RA.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">long commute</a>.As a consequence of this, districts like Denham's are undergoing demographic change — and as all the new suburbanites are coming from some of the most liberal parts of California, a political change too.And what is happening in California is not unique. Suburbs used to be heavily Republican, and the shift of political gravity from cities to the surrounding communities toward the end of the 20th century was once seen as a herald for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/19/us/suburbs-especially-in-the-south-are-becoming-the-source-of-political-power-in-us.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Republican dominance</a>. But one by one, suburbs have turned blue as college-educated voters have <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/08/midterms-suburbs-republicans-democrats-trump/1921590002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">turned their backs on Trump</a>. The realignment is also rearing its head in longtime GOP-controlled Sun Belt states like Georgia, where gun control activist Lucy McBath <a href="https://www.alternet.org/election-03918/lucy-mcbath-defeats-karen-handel-georgia" style="text-decoration-line: none;">defeated</a> Karen Handel a year after the GOP claimed the special election, and Texas, where Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke surprised everyone by <a href="https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/election/article221281440.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">winning</a> the deep-red suburbs of Tarrant County.If this trend continues, Democratic territory will gradually spread out from cities into smaller towns suburbs, with GOP support focused into the broad, sparsely-populated areas in between. Denham's loss should serve as a warning to Republicans that their brand is in retreat in growing parts of the country — and their old coalition rests on shaky foundations.AN<interaction data-token="5b96855f8198b4e625350260" data-context="true" data-tags="" data-fallback="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div>=</div><div>am action network neg ad dark $ fuckery</div><div>fox bs</div><div><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/election-2012-jose-hernandez-loses-california-congressional-race">https://www.foxnews.com/politics/election-2012-jose-hernandez-loses-california-congressional-race</a></div><div>
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</div><div>POLITICS Published December 15, 2016 </div><div>Election 2012: Jose Hernandez Loses California Congressional Race</div><div>By | Fox News</div><div>
</div><div>Former NASA astronaut and Democratic congressional candidate Jose Hernandez lost his race in California’s 10th District to incumbent Republican Jeff Denham in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.</div><div>
</div><div>The Mexican-American former NASA astronaut grew up working in the fields in Modesto with his parents and has made his personal story a big part of his appeal to voters. He lost his hard-fought battle to Denham, an almond farmer and Air Force veteran. Denham just completed his first term.</div><div>
</div><div>As expected, the race was close in a GOP-leaning area. Denham won 54 percent of the vote compared to Hernandez’s 46 percent. The campaign became heated and in some cases vicious thanks to nearly $12 million that have been infused into both campaigns from Super PACS.</div><div>
</div><div>Money was mainly used for vicious TV ads. California is as blue a state as can be, but both Republicans and Democrats viewed the 10th congressional district as a real battleground. The district, which is 40 percent Hispanic, is considered more politically balanced than ever after it was recently redrawn.</div></div><div>=</div>off bs note sacramento "grab = fed overreach]Following Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s visit to Don Pedro and New Melones Reservoirs at the request of U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock), the Department of Interior issued an official comment on Friday to the State Water Resources Control Board’s proposed water grab.The Department of Interior’s comment notes that the proposed water grab “directly interfere[s] with the New Melones Project’s ability to store water” and “elevate[s] the Project’s fish and wildlife purposes over the Project’s irrigation and domestic purposes contrary to the prioritization scheme carefully established by Congress.” Interior’s comment also specifies that siphoning off at least 40 percent of Central Valley’s rivers during peak season would result in significant reductions in water storage at New Melones and result in diminished power generation as well as recreational opportunities. DOI recommends the Board reconsider and postpone the scheduled August 21-22 public meeting to allow for “additional due diligence and dialogue.”“Sacramento’s radical water grab would cripple the Central Valley’s economy, farms and community.  Secretary Zinke saw that when he visited New Melones and Don Pedro reservoirs with me last week,” said Rep. Denham. “They cannot drain our reservoirs and ignore our concerns.  I will continue fighting to make sure Central Valley voices are heard.”“Under Sacramento’s plan, the Valley will suffer skyrocketing water and electricity rates.” said Rep. Denham. “After a decade and millions of our money spent on a study that they required, the board ignored the science based proposal that would save our fish while preserving our water rights.  We will not allow them to take our water and destroy our way of life”Last week, Rep. Denham’s amendment to stop the states dangerous water grab passed the U.S. House of Representatives as part of a Department of the Interior appropriations bill, and put a major spotlight on this issue. The amendment, currently awaiting a vote in the Senate, prohibits federal agencies from participating in the state’s plan to deplete the federally owned New Melones reservoir, which provides water for the Central Valley Project and generates hydropower. Sacramento’s plan would drain significantly more water from New Melones each year, potentially leaving it completely dry some years. This would put in jeopardy critical water supplies for Central Valley farmers and communities who rely on the water for their homes, businesses, farms, and electric power. The amendment takes this issue head-on to protect Valley water.Rep. Denham will continue fighting to protect Central Valley water, support science-driven river management plans that revitalize our rivers without recklessly wasting water, and push major policies like the New WATER Act that will solve California’s water storage crisis and keep the Valley fertile and prosperous for generations to come.To read the full comment from the Department of the Interior, <a href="https://denham.house.gov/UploadedFiles/DOI_water_grab_comment.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">click here</a>. For more information about what Rep. Denham is doing to fight for water in the Valley, visit <a href="http://www.denham.house.gov/water" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">www.Denham.house.gov/water</a>, where you can also sign up to receive periodic updates on his work in Washington to improve local water infrastructure, storage and delivery.<div>=</div><div>kpfa 8/28</div><div> 1 mil acres almond san joachain vly ? (inpaired drainage, not much GNP?) Resnick?</div><div>denham amnedmnt, valadao</div><div>gut ESA [drollinger fish > man] David B esq</div><div>
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</div><div>There was a time when Ryan Zinke’s <a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2232196/how-ryan-zinke-really-stacks-teddy-roosevelt" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">claim to be a Teddy Roosevelt Republican</a> would have elicited laughter heard from Don Pedro Dam to Mount Rushmore. Teddy Roosevelt was one of the first and strongest ever defenders of public lands and wildlife; Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior might go down in history as the worst-ever enemy of those same public lands and wildlife.</div><div>
</div>Consider this: Ryan Zinke has already presided over the removal of some two million acres of public land from protection, mostly in the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase National Monuments. Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ryan-zinke-trump-war-on-department-of-interior-700218/" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">called it</a>, “the largest elimination of public land in American history.”And while the nation’s been distracted by Donald Trump’s daily rolling dumpster fire, Ryan Zinke and friends <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/13/the-trump-administration-officially-clipped-the-wings-of-the-migratory-bird-treaty-act/?utm_term=.62fbc1fb7bc7" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">have managed to gut</a> one of the most venerated of all of America’s great conservation measures—the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.One-hundred years old this year, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) is honored by nations including Canada, Mexico, and Japan. It protects migratory birds from robins and cranes to Peregrine Falcons. Ironically, the Audubon Society named 2018 the, “Year of the Bird,” to honor the hundred-year anniversary of one of our most enduring commitments to the values of Teddy Roosevelt.None of this got mentioned during Ryan Zinke’s whirlwind tour through California Congressional District 10 last week. Zinke was visiting as the guest of Congressman Jeff Denham, who is putting on his biennial campaign extravaganza, featuring promises to remedy all the problems he’s neglected ever since he won office in 2010.Zinke’s ludicrous claim about adhering to Teddy Roosevelt’s land ethic came in a district that features the protected wintering grounds of well over a hundred thousand migratory waterfowl, including the formerly endangered <a href="https://www.fws.gov/pacific/news/2001/2001-25.htm" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Aleutian Canada Goose</a>, as well as ducks, cranes, and swans. The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge is the result of a partnership between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Audubon Society, prominent local families, and a host of other organizations and individuals.Only a few miles west of Modesto, the refuge isn’t just a living monument to local pride in our special natural history, it represents the love of nature Teddy Roosevelt personified in his commitment to public lands—exactly opposite Ryan Zinke’s “plunder for profits” campaign.And even though Jeff Denham has been telling his constituents he’s against the tunnels, he joined Nunes and Valadao in voting for legislation that not only prevents lawsuits against the tunnels, it would prevent lawsuits against water projects in general.Ostensibly here to help Jeff Denham stop the state’s “water grab,” Ryan Zinke’s commitment is actually to the likes of Devin Nunes and David Valadao, Denham’s Republican colleagues in the southern San Joaquin Valley. That’s where Big Ag dominates politics and water issues and where Nunes and Valadao are pushing hard for twin tunnels in the Delta.Think Jeff Denham and Ryan Zinke are interested in protecting the interests of Valley citizens? Just follow the money. Jeff Denham receives money from coal and oil barons like the Koch Brothers, who want to continue exploiting public lands for dirty energy and dirtier money. Ryan Zinke’s happy to help.Closer to home, Stewart Resnick and Boswell Farms want our water to keep flowing south; Jeff Denham’s happy to help. After all, <a href="https://www.scpr.org/news/2014/04/10/43402/the-politics-of-drought-california-water-interests/" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">he made the top ten</a> of Resnick’s donation list, just a few thousand dollars behind his buddy David Valadao.Jeff Denham and Ryan Zinke are about as much like Teddy Roosevelt as Donald Trump is like Abraham Lincoln. Americans who value their history should shower him with boos and catcalls any time Ryan Zinke so deceitfully invokes the name, “Roosevelt.”https://thevalleycitizen.com/denham-and-zinke-crimes-against-nature/<div>=</div></div><div><div>=</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.restorethedelta.org/2018/07/19/house-approves-interior-spending-bill-sending-calvert-valadao-and-denham-riders-that-would-thwart-due-process-for-the-delta-to-the-senate/">http://www.restorethedelta.org/2018/07/19/house-approves-interior-spending-bill-sending-calvert-valadao-and-denham-riders-that-would-thwart-due-process-for-the-delta-to-the-senate/</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">July 19, 2018 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, <a href="mailto:Barbara@restorethedelta.org" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Barbara@restorethedelta.org</a> Nora Kovaleski, 408-806-6470, <a href="mailto:nora@kovaleskipr.com" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">nora@kovaleskipr.com</a><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;">House Approves Interior Spending Bill, Sending Calvert, Valadao, and Denham Riders that Would Thwart Due Process for the Delta to the Senate</h3>WASHINGTON D.C. – This afternoon, the House of Representatives <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll365.xml" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">passed</a> the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 6147), sending three federal riders that would circumvent water rights laws and legal protections for the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary to the Senate.The first rider <a href="http://www.restorethedelta.org/2018/05/15/interior-subcommittee-rider-that-attempts-to-void-state-litigation-on-delta-tunnels-will-be-seen-by-full-committee/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">written</a> by Congressman Ken Calvert (R-Corona) seeks to exempt the Delta tunnels, or CA WaterFix, project from further judicial review. Soon after, Congressman David Valadao (R-Hanford) <a href="http://www.restorethedelta.org/2018/07/09/restore-the-delta-pra-request-shows-kern-county-water-agency-and-mwd-worked-together-on-valadao-rider/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">introduced</a> another provision to the Appropriations bill that would cement a legislative ban on major California water infrastructure projects including the State Water Project and the Centrall Valley Project.This week, Congressman Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) <a href="https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article215014805.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">added</a> yet another amendment to the Appropriations bill, seeking to dismantle the State Water Board’s recent recommended updates to the Bay Delta plan as a means to secure more water deliveries to the Central Valley.Executive Director of Restore the Delta, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla said, “We anticipated the Interior Appropriations bill would pass the House, but we maintain that it will be stopped in the Senate. We are so grateful that Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris voiced their opposition to these harmful legislative efforts to undo due process, water quality and quantity protections, and water rights for the Delta. We would also like to thank Congressman John Garamendi and Congressman Jerry McNerney for their political courage that manifested into amendments that would have removed the language of these three harmful riders from the Appropriations bill. The House Committee on Rule’s decision to deny a House floor vote on these amendments s illustrates the deep corruption that controls California water management decisions.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Every two years, Congressman Jeff Denham leaves his Virginia home and shows up in California to run his immigration shell and pea game.In the shell and pea game, the object is to follow the pea while it’s supposedly concealed under a shell. The scam is that the operator of the game hides the pea in his hand and only places it under a shell after a player has pointed to another shell and lost the bet. In Jeff Denham’s immigration shell game, the pea is immigration reform and the shells are Republican leadership and the months and years between elections.Here’s how it works: Because Jeff Denham’s California Congressional District 10 (CA-10) is about 40% Latino, Denham needs to appear willing to work for fair immigration policies.CA-10 is heavily dependent on agriculture; in Stanislaus County alone, AG revenues amount to around $3 billion yearly. So the CA-10 economy, which includes almost all of Stanislaus County as well as parts of San Joaquin County, is also heavily dependent on farm labor, a large proportion of which is performed by illegal immigrants.Every election year, Jeff Denham makes a pretense in favor of immigration reform. His pitch always includes a mix of humane treatment for hard working immigrants and stricter enforcement along the border. It’s a winning combination, but somehow it never happens, and Jeff Denham knows why.The first and most obvious reason immigration reform never happens is Paul Ryan, who today just happens to be the majority Speaker of the House of Representatives. Jeff Denham has consistently supported Paul Ryan at every opportunity, but as far back as 2012, Paul Ryan <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/258772-ryan-vows-no-immigration-reform-under-obama" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">insisted there would be no immigration reform under Barack Obama</a>; he repeated the pledge in 2015.In 2013, a bipartisan group of senators known as “The Gang of Eight”—it consisted of four Democrats and four Republicans—wrote  the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013.” The immigration reform act passed in the Senate by a strong bipartisan vote of 68-32. However, Paul Ryan and then Speaker of the House John Boehner made sure it was never brought to a vote in the House of Representatives, and it <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Eight(immigration)" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">thus expired at the end of the 113thCongress</a>.See the pattern? Ever since Jeff Denham was elected to the House of Representatives in 2010, he’s supported immigration reform that NEVER happens. But Denham’s shell game on immigration is even worse than it looks at first glance.Publicly, Jeff Denham supports the DREAM Act of 2017, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who came to the United States as children and are thus technically illegal. But Denham also supports Paul Ryan and Donald Trump, both of whom not only oppose the DREAM Act, but who support deporting illegal immigrants immediately.And as for Donald Trump’s and Jeff Sessions’ “Zero Tolerance” immigration policy that has separated families and isolated children, <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2018/06/20/politico-ca-playbook-trump-tells-house-gop-to-send-him-immigration-bill-denham-calls-immigration-optics-horrible-seth-macfarlane-donates-25-million-to-npr-kpcc-280832" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Denham told CNN</a>, “Not only is this current policy unacceptable, but the optics of pulling kids away from their parents is horrible for any party.”Yes, the “optics” of cruelty is horrible, but so is the shell and pea game that enables Jeff Denham to appear moderate on immigration while supporting Republican Party leaders he knows will either make sure nothing happens to change immigration policy, or, more recently, impose “unacceptable alternatives.”Jeff Denham has had eight years—the equivalent of two presidential terms—to achieve immigration reform. He’s failed to do so even with bipartisan support because during his time in Congress Jeff Denham has supported Republican leadership dedicated to the status quo or to cruel policies that hurt both people and the economy by deporting hard-working immigrants. It’s a shell and pea game.</div><div></div><div><a href="https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier-part-iii-water-for-tunnels/">https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier-part-iii-water-for-tunnels/</a></div><div>
</div><div> Denham has a lot of explaining to do. Once again on his biennial campaign tour, Denham’s latest reelection gambit features Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke.Secretary Zinke is supposedly helping Congressman Denham work against state requirements for increased flows along our rivers, the so-called, “water grab.” Denham obviously wants to show he has tremendous clout in Washington D.C., but some of his work with fellow Republicans back east isn’t good for his district, no matter how he spins it.For example, Jeff Denham is supporting Devin Nunes and David Valadeo in their attempts to approve the Twin Tunnels project in the San Joaquin Delta. Already, over five million acre feet of northern California water leave the delta for points south, and that often includes water from our own San Joaquin and Stanislaus Rivers.The Twin Tunnels project would make it easier to send even more water south, this time through two forty-foot diameter tubes. Republicans Ken Calvert and David Valadeo have added riders to H.R. 6147 which would make it impossible to sue to stop the tunnels as well as exempt California water policy from judicial review. Denham himself added a rider to stop current proposals to update the state’s water plan.Needless to say, exempting the tunnels from litigation is not only a violation of due process, it also puts government above and beyond public review. Why would Jeff Denham favor such a thing?Why? Because Jeff Denham has three conflicting challenges: (1) He has to convince voters in the Modesto Irrigation and Turlock Irrigation Districts (MID and TID) he can stop the state from increasing flows along the Tuolumne River (2) He has to overlook Oakdale Irrigation District (OID) water sales because, (3) He has to work with fellow Republicans Nunes and Valadeo to keep water going south and, in the best of cases (for them), increase the amount of water they get from northern California.It’s a difficult act along a very tight wire, but Jeff Denham is a master of putting perception before reality. And he knows that he couldn’t have better misdirection than the furor caused by the state’s proposal to increase flows along our rivers.Even though the proposals for increased flows have been on the table for years now, and the opportunity to adjust and negotiate was always present, Jeff Denham did nothing. Now, as is also the case with immigration, Denham needs to make his position on water look right just long enough to get reelected.
But most of all, Jeff Denham is hoping no one will notice he’s never once demonstrated a desire to keep CA-10 water in CA-10 rather than send it south. That’s because when Donald Trump promised to deliver water to “Central Valley farmers,” Jeff Denham, like Devin Nunes and David Valadeo, knew Trump was really talking about BIG AG in the southern San Joaquin Valley. They knew because they’ve been helping send water south all along.  Denham is hoping the increased flow proposals will obscure the fact that that OID has been selling water south to Westlands Water District for well over a decade. He’s also hoping no one will notice OID water sales came to an abrupt halt when they were challenged in court. They came to a halt because they’re environmentally unsound. OID then began a process of <a href="https://www.modbee.com/news/local/oakdale/article131538269.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">abandoning its own water rights</a> so it could continue to ship water south—not exactly the message you want to send if your region is complaining about water shortages.The southern San Joaquin Valley is where Stewart Resnick and Boswell Farms have well over 300,000 acres between them. It’s also where corporate giants like Boswell and Resnick have already diverted enough water out of the San Joaquin River that it ran dry for a sixty-mile stretch until a judge ordered restored flows.Boswell also managed to destroy Tulare Lake, <a href="https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/photos-from-the-vault/article138098228.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">a wonder of nature</a> that once extended 60 miles from end to end and was 36 miles wide. Boswell took all that water and it still wasn’t enough.The southern San Joaquin Valley is also where farmers, especially BIG AG, have pumped so much groundwater that the land has sunk—as much as thirty feet in some places, and it’s still sinking. Once the lake was gone and rivers dried up and the land had sunk beyond use, James Boswell, Stewart Resnick and friends looked north.They found that contributions to politicians like David Valadeo, Devin Nunes, and <a href="https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier-part-ii-the-real-water-grab/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Denham</a> could bring water south, but Denham had to be careful not to let his constituents in on the scheme.Now, Jeff Denham has to continue his delicate act of splitting his district into contending forces; instead of working with the major water districts to share their water and keep it here at home, Denham is working to maintain the status quo. But he’s had plenty of experience at such things; after all, every two years he promises a new immigration policy and every two years he fails to produce one.
But what’s important to Jeff Denham isn’t necessarily that anything happen. As has been the case in previous election years, the important thing is optics—Jeff has to look as though he’s working really hard for his district. The simple fact is he’s perfectly happy with the status quo, and always has been.  Now, he and his Republican buddies are promising measures they know will meet almost certain defeat in the United States Senate. Oh, and by the way, Jeff Denham, Devin Nunes,  and Ryan Zinke <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/opinion/editorials/zinke-interior-endangered-species.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">also want to do away with the Endangered Species Act</a>—you know, the act that saved the Bald Eagle, California Condor, and, here in CA-10, the Aleutian Canada Goose, from extinction—that act.California Secretary of Resources John Laird <a href="http://www.restorethedelta.org/blog/" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">sent a powerful letter to</a> House and Senate Committees on Resources condemning the legislation by Denham and his Republican cronies down south. Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris have promised to oppose it in the Senate. But perhaps the strongest statement about the tunnels came from California Congressman John Garamendi, <a href="https://fishsniffer.com/index.php/2018/07/18/natural-resources-secretary-john-laird-opposes-rider-banning-delta-tunnels-lawsuits/" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">who wrote</a>,<blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 40px 40px 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The twin tunnels are an environmental and financial boondoggle that would devastate the ecology of the Delta to funnel more water south. As of today, over 90 parties, including environmental groups and northern California water users have taken legal action against the tunnels…The language in H.R. 6147 would not only insulate the tunnels from needed legal review but would also override water rights across the state.”</blockquote>Jeff Denham doesn’t care. As long as he can convince his constituents he’s working in their interests and still keep water moving south, he’s the very model of today’s professional politician—a hypocritical servant of big money who puts donor approval before the interests of his own constituents.</div><div></div><div><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/05/11/trump-new-era-industry-self-regulation-denham-oil-rail">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/05/11/trump-new-era-industry-self-regulation-denham-oil-rail</a></div><div>
</div><div>In case you were wondering how industry-friendly the federal government is becoming, look no futher than Representative Jeff Denham (R-CA), chair of the Congressional Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials. He recently opened a hearing on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC5zCL_aqkY" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pipeline and rail regulations</a> with the following sentiment: “Regulation has grown significantly in recent years and so we are here to ask stakeholders about the impact and burden of regulation on their businesses and ways to ease the burden without compromising safety.” Now a “stakeholder” is <a href="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/stakeholder" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">defined as</a> “a person with an interest or concern in something.” Yet the only people testifying at this hearing were five people representing industry and one representing rail labor.There was no one representing the millions of people who live near railroad tracks and pipelines that will be impacted by the easing of regulations on safety and the environment. No one to talk about possible environmental impacts. The burdens of those communities don’t appear to concern Rep. Denham. As previously <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/13/singing-industry-s-tune-how-rep-jeff-denham-plans-delay-oil-rail-safety" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reported on DeSmog</a>, Denham has used his position to support industry efforts to avoid oil-by-rail regulations before. His latest approach in the Trump era should not come as a surprise. In early 2015, Denham, in a hearing on implementing new safer oil tank cars, repeatedly advocated pushing back the timeline for industry being required to use a safer version of rail tank cars. Denham made his preferred approach clear, saying, “I just want to make sure that we are all singing the same tune that we have a very safe industry and we want to work together on improving that industry.”<h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">“Allow the railroad industry to keep more of their profits”</h3>Two years later, as the Trump administration starts rolling back regulations, Denham now is asking “stakeholders” — or, members of the industries being regulated — how regulators can ease the burden of regulation around rail and pipeline safety. At this oil-by-rail hearing, some of those stakeholders were representatives from Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), the leading oil-by-rail company, and the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/american-petroleum-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">American Petroleum Institute</a> (API), an oil and gas industry lobbying group. Anyone care to guess what they recommended?One hint comes from Rep. Bill Shuster, who advocated that government should “allow the railroad industry to keep more of their profits.” What business doesn't want to keep more of its profits? But what those businesses do with that money is another question. Shuster’s logic is that if the rail industry gets to keep more of its profits, then those profits will — of course — be reinvested in safety.A major problem with this concept is found in the history of the rail industry, which has been fighting against using safety measures such as modern electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes, positive train control, and speed limits. Its opposition is based on the idea that the costs of these proven safety technologies and the regulations that would require them outweigh the benefits.ECP brakes are an excellent example of this. The rail industry lobbied against this proven safety technology in a <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/03/15/rail-industry-lobbies-against-new-oil-rail-safety-regulations-day-after-rail-accident" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">presentation from the Association of American Railroads</a> to federal regulators, saying, “If there were business benefits that outweighed the costs of ECP brakes, industry would have installed ECP brakes on a widespread basis.”...</div><div>
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Lawmakers are targeting striped bass in a farmer-backed effort to protect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta’s salmon while trimming a 1992 environmental law.In what amounts to a multi-pronged move, the House on Tuesday night approved a bill by Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, that ends the 1992 law’s goal of doubling the number of striped bass living in and around the Delta.Removing the doubling goal for the predatory fish is supposed to protect preyed-upon salmon, whose preservation is another goal of the 1992 law. It’s also a modest way to scale back the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, which farmers blame for water shortages and have long tried to revise.“This is a simple bill . . . that will save our water in California,” Denham said during House debate Tuesday, adding that “in California, predation is rampant.”<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; width: 1px; height: 1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; overflow: hidden;"> Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article87879102.html#storylink=cpy</div></div></div><h2 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman">Dishonorable Mention</h2>Rep. Jeff Denham didn’t let ethics get in the way of getting elected.In 2010, the freshman congressman from California’s Central Valley brazenly violated election laws by transferring corporate funds from his state campaign to a nonprofit for the benefit of his campaign for Congress. CREWJeff Denham has failed the 2016 Political Courage Test.08/18/2016Press Release: Rep. Denham: More Work Needed to Improve Passenger Rail Safety08/03/2016Rating: Jeff Denham was rated 100% by American Library Association (Positions)07/21/2016News Article: New Bill Aims To Increase The Delta's Salmon Population, Decrease Bass07/18/2016Rating: Jeff Denham was rated 94% by Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (Positions)07/14/2016Statement: Denham, Hastings Introduce U.S. House Resolution to Recognize PollinatorsStatement: Hastings and Denham Introduce Resolution Recognizing the Role of Pollinators07/13/2016Vote: Jeff Denham voted Yea (Passage) - S 304 - Conscience Protection Act of 201607/12/2016Letter: Letter to Dianne Feinstein, Senator for California- House Passes Royce-Supported California Drought Relief Legislation07/07/2016Vote: Jeff Denham voted Yea (Passage) - HR 4361 - Government Reform and Improvement Act of 201607/06/2016Press Release: Denham Votes to Overhaul Mental Health System07/05/2016Press Release: Rep. Denham's "Save Our Salmon" Bill Passes U.S. House of RepresentativesFloor Speech: Save Our Salmon ActPress Release: House Passes Bill to Address Conflicting Federal Statutes that Exacerbate California DroughtFloor Speech: Clear Creek National Recreation Area and Conservation ActPress Release: Bipartisan Bill To Reopen Clear Creek For Recreation And Conservation Passes House06/29/2016Press Release: Denham: This Is For The 2206/24/2016Endorsed: Jeff Denham was endorsed by Peace Officers Research Association of CaliforniaEndorsed: Jeff Denham was endorsed by California Pro-Life Council06/23/2016Vote: Jeff Denham voted Yea (Conference Report Vote) - HR 2577 - Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017Statement: Joint Statement on United States v. Texas SCOTUS RulingPress Release: Denham VA Accountability Bill Included in Conferenced Appropriations for Veterans Affairs, Zika06/22/2016Statement: President Signs Bipartisan Pipeline Safety Bill Into LawPress Release: Denham Pipeline Safety Provisions Signed Into LawPress Release: French Camp Appropriations Authorized by House06/16/2016Press Release: Denham Votes to Strengthen National Security, Preparedness06/15/2016Press Release: Committee Passes Rep. Denham's "Save Our Salmon Act"Press Release: Denham Predation Bill Sent to House Floor with Bipartisan Support06/13/2016Press Release: Pipeline Safety Bill Heads to President06/10/2016Letter: Letter to the Honorable Sally Jewell, Secretary of U.S. Department of Interior, and the Honorable Penny Pritzker, Secretary of U.S. Department of Commerce - Urge Administration to Reject Water Supply CutsLetter: Letter to the Hon. Thomas Perez, Secretary of the Department of Labor and the Hon. León Rodriguez, Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services - Address H-2A Agriculture Worker Delays06/09/2016Vote: Jeff Denham voted Yea (Passage) - HR 5278 - Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA)06/08/2016Press Release: Denham Pipeline Safety Provisions Pass HouseFloor Speech: Securing America's Future Energy: Protecting Our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety ActPress Release: House Passes Bipartisan Pipeline Safety Bill06/06/2016==

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..."just want to make sure that we are all singing the same tune that we have a very safe industry and we want to work together on improving that industry.”

Those were the words of Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials on February 3rd at a hearing titled <a target="_blank" href="http://transportation.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=398580">“How the Changing Energy Markets Will Affect U.S. Transportation</a>.” He was directing this advice to Greg Saxton, chief engineer for rail tank car manufacturer Greenbrier.

Denham obviously had a bone to pick with Saxton because prior to the hearing the Modesto Bee, a newspaper in Denham’s home district, ran an editorial making a strong case that the existing tank cars used to transport crude oil are unsafe. The editorial, “<a target="_blank" href="http://www.modbee.com/opinion/editorials/article8831462.html">Delays on safer rail cars are unacceptable</a>,” didn’t mince words. It was clear on what should happen: “The DOT [Department of Transportation] should adopt rules for those cars then set deadlines to replace every single tank car in America. Our elected representatives should insist on it.”

In Modesto, the elected representative who should be insisting on that is Jeff Denham.

Modesto is also home to Greenbrier’s manufacturing facilities and the editorial quoted Saxton for its conclusion noting his position on the lack of new regulations. “We just need a decision. Twenty years is too long.”

This is not the tune that Chairman Denham wants everyone to be singing. In his comments to Saxton at the hearing he explained his intent.

“I’m making sure that the wrong people are not talking to the Ed boards across the country that would give a wrong perception of our current situation.”

Apparently Saxton is one of the “wrong people” to talk to editorial boards because of his insistence on adhering to the facts. Denham went on to explain what he wants the American public to hear, while of course taking a shot at the Obama administration for good measure.

Rep. Denham said:

“I want to make sure as the administration drags their feet or reorganizes or does some shuffling that there is not a misperception out there in the American public that a) that our current tank cars are not safe, that our industry does not have a safe record and, most importantly, that there is not some magic quick fast track to get all of these new tank cars online very, very quickly.”

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Where would the American public get the “misperception” that current oil-by-rail tank cars aren’t safe?  Perhaps from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which has raised concerns repeatedly about the DOT-111 tank cars <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/2501656">for the last 20 years</a>.

This year, the NTSB added the issue of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/01/13/252911/ntsb-adds-railroad-tank-car-safety.html">rail tank car safety</a> to its Most Wanted List of items to improve transportation safety. Last year, an NTSB board member testified that using the DOT-111 rail cars to transport crude oil posed an “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/03/14/why-nothing-will-happen-oil-rail-safety">unacceptable public risk.</a>”

The American public may also have noticed that a couple days after Denham’s talk about telling the American public that rail tank cars are safe, a <a target="_blank" href="http://news.yahoo.com/iowa-rail-line-reopens-following-train-derailment-ethanol-210256487--finance.html">train carrying ethanol derailed</a>, rail cars were punctured, caught fire and spilled ethanol into the Mississippi River.

The main argument Denham and the oil and rail industries are making is that it just isn’t possible to replace all of the DOT-111 cars on the schedule proposed by the Department of Transportation (DOT).

In an <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/12/south-dakota-sen-john-thune-stumps-oil-rail-industry">earlier Senate hearing</a> on this topic, Sen. John Thune (R-SD), claimed that the DOT’s timeline for replacing the unsafe cars was “<a target="_blank" href="http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2015/01/28/thune-urges-white-house-delay-tank-car-safety-rules/22482131/">unattainable.</a>”

Meanwhile, Saxton, the chief engineer at the largest tank car manufacturer claims the industry can meet the deadlines, a point Greenbrier has made throughout the past year regarding this issue and one that is included in the proposed regulations from July 2014. This isn’t a new idea.

As reported on DeSmog <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/03/14/why-nothing-will-happen-oil-rail-safety">almost a year ago</a>, the reason the industry is fighting against these timelines to replace the cars is that they need the cars to meet the increasing industry demand to move crude by rail. Instead of replacing the old unsafe cars, the industry wants to simply add any new cars to the fleet that is moving crude oil.

In this debate — and the debate on what to do about the explosive nature of the Bakken crude oil moved in the DOT-111’s — the industry and its champions in congress like Rep. Denham, continue to engage in finger-pointing and obfuscation to make it appear like these claims are reasonable.

“I know that you have a PR [public relations] staff that is very busy working with a lot of op-ed boards around the country,” Denham said to Saxton, “So as they continue to have those discussions I want to make sure they are dealing with some factual information.”

Rep. Denham did not go on to provide any factual information to dispute Saxton’s claims. What he did was use an example to try to make his case that ignored the facts.

“125,000 tanks cars in the fleet currently today. You have the capacity to build how many… 8,000 a year?” Denham asked Saxton, who confirmed that this was true. “So if you were building 8,000 a year the backlog would be about a decade.”

Although Denham’s “about a decade math” is shaky based on the numbers he was using (125/8=15.6), the industry wants a decade to replace the dangerous rail cars, so that is the answer they always get when they do their math.

However, the whole premise is completely misleading. The facts are that no one is saying that 125,000 tank cars need to be replaced and the rail tank car industry has a much greater capacity than 8,000 cars per year.

The proposed regulations note that there are currently 22,800 non-jacketed DOT-111 tank cars in use for crude oil, and an additional 5,500 jacketed DOT-111’s.

The current industry capacity for new rail tank car production is <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-tank-cars-likely-to-be-scrapped-under-new-rules-1407859765">35,000 per year.</a>

So when Rep. Denham says “I want to see some numbers” — he is bluffing because he knows that the numbers tell a far different story than the tune he is singing.

At the Feb. 3 hearing, Denham’s behavior illustrated again how these public hearings are merely public relations spectacles designed to send an industry-approved message to the American public.

Meanwhile, the real discussions about the new regulations are happening in <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/18/white-house-meeting-logs-big-rail-lobbying-bomb-trains-regulations-touts-publicly">private meetings between industry and its regulators</a>. In these private meetings the industry lobbies against new tank cars, new braking systems, making the oil safer, and any speed limits for the trains.

Rep. Denham wants the American public to believe there isn’t “some magic quick fast track” way to replace the unsafe tank cars and that it is going to take a decade.

The reality is that the industry has the capacity to replace the tank cars on the timeline in the proposed regulations and there is no need to wait a decade to address this “unacceptable public risk.”

But since doing that would cut into industry profits, the industry and its representatives in congress maintain this is “unattainable.”

They’re singing from the same songbook, and that should scare every American living near the <a target="_blank" href="http://explosive-crude-by-rail.org/">bomb train blast zone</a>.

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<table id="summaryData" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; border: 0px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><tbody><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">2009 - 2014 Total Receipts:</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><img src="/5e29e3d9-e6d4-5239-8d83-fb2e74a2c1f8.gif"/> $6,340,839</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">2009 - 2014 Total Spent:</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><img src="/6b85485e-a402-5ba0-bd9b-73f98fd670ed.gif"/> $4,827,543</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Debts:</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><img src="/8de1f6f3-4368-56c4-bdc4-667a903d1cab.gif"/> $460</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Last Report:</td><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Tuesday, September 30, 2014</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;">Top 5 Contributors, 2009 - 2014</h2>

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<table id="topContrib" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><thead><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Contributor</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Total</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Indivs</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Fagundes Dairy</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$38,682</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$38,682</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Bnsf Railway</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$37,000</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$19,000</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$18,000</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Bert Crane Orchards</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$33,300</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$33,300</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Copart Inc</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$31,700</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$31,700</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Blue Cross/Blue Shield</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$30,500</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$30,500</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;">Top 5 Industries, 2009 - 2014</h2>

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<table id="topIndus" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><thead><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Industry</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Total</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Indivs</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Crop Production & Basic Processing</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$717,612</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$550,362</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$167,250</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Leadership PACs</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$425,107</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$425,107</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Casinos/Gambling</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$293,020</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$268,720</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$24,300</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Real Estate</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$218,890</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$164,390</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$54,500</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Dairy</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$173,714</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$105,532</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$68,182</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;"><a id="funds" name="funds" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> </a>Source of Funds</h2>

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<table id="src_table" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><tbody><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;"><img src="/b0406aea-9bbd-542f-a5c8-bfdbf1f57640.gif"/></td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">Individual Contributions</td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">$2,877,141</td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">(45%)</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;"><img src="/d6aae2a5-36ca-51ad-b4e3-d08cea274a5a.gif"/></td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">PAC Contributions</td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">$2,803,672</td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">(44%)</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;"><img src="/67d24531-7a72-5e18-8eef-a46a00b9f7d0.gif"/></td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">Candidate self-financing</td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">$0</td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">(0%)</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;"><img src="/27863a10-7f74-597e-b76c-e00add672f57.gif"/></td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">Other</td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">$660,026</td><td style=" padding: 5px 30px 5px 5px; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;">(10%)</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<table id="topContrib" class="tablesorter datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 10px 0pt 15px; padding: 0px; width: 604px; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><tbody><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fagundes Dairy</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$38,682</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$38,682</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td></tr><tr class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Bnsf Railway</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$37,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$19,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$18,000</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bert Crane Orchards</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$33,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$33,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td></tr><tr class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Copart Inc</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$31,700</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$31,700</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Blue Cross/Blue Shield</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$30,500</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$30,500</td></tr><tr class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Every Republican is Crucial PAC</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$30,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$30,000</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hilltop Ranch</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$29,955</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$29,955</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td></tr><tr class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Tanimura & Antle</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$29,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$29,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Blue Diamond Growers</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$28,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$28,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Altria Group</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$27,044</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$2,236</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$24,808</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Assn of Chemical Distributors</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$27,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$27,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Bechtel Group</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$26,800</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$26,800</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">RC Farms</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$25,850</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$25,850</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td></tr><tr class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Granville Homes</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$25,050</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$25,050</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AT&T Inc</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$25,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$25,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">California Dairies Inc</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$25,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$25,000</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Home Depot</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$25,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$25,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Majority Cmte PAC</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$25,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$25,000</td></tr><tr class="even"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Meritage Healthcare</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$25,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$25,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td></tr><tr class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">New York Life Insurance</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$23,500</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$23,500</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<table id="topIndus" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><tbody><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=A01" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Crop Production & Basic Processing</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$717,612</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=Q03" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Leadership PACs</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$425,107</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=N07" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Casinos/Gambling</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$293,020</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=F10" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Real Estate</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$218,890</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=A04" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Dairy</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$173,714</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=A07" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Agricultural Services/Products</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$170,100</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=E01" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Oil & Gas</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$154,290</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=H01" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Health Professionals</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$149,734</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=F09" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Insurance</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$140,407</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=A06" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Livestock</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$139,687</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=M02" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Automotive</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$138,759</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=K01" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Lawyers/Law Firms</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$132,597</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=M01" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Air Transport</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$124,399</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=M04" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Railroads</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$113,750</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=N02" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Beer, Wine & Liquor</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$113,590</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=Q16" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Candidate Committees</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$110,854</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=C01" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">General Contractors</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$99,375</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=K02" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Lobbyists</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$91,569</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=F07" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Securities & Investment</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$90,722</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=A09" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Food Processing & Sales</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$81,379</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<table id="topSect" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><tbody><tr><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Sector</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Total</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">PACs</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Indivs</th></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=A" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Agribusiness</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$1,460,476</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$471,973</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$988,503</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=B" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Communications/Electronics</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$133,962</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$111,900</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$22,062</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=C" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Construction</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$287,310</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$104,575</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$182,735</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=D" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Defense</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$12,500</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$11,000</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$1,500</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=E" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Energy & Natural Resources</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$219,662</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$165,930</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$53,732</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=F" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Finance, Insurance & Real Estate</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$637,908</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$329,407</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$308,501</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=H" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Health</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$301,210</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$209,710</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$91,500</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=K" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Lawyers & Lobbyists</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$224,166</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$55,933</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$168,233</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=M" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Transportation</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$454,708</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$297,999</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$156,709</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=N" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Misc Business</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$705,337</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$239,410</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$465,927</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=P" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Labor</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$46,500</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$46,500</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=Q" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Ideological/Single-Issue</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$694,513</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$614,323</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$80,190</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=W" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Other</a></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$102,474</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$7,000</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$95,474</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Jeffrey John "Jeff" Denham (born July 29, 1967) is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="California's 10th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">California's 10th congressional district</a>. He is a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a>.

He previously served two terms in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate" title="California State Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">California State Senate</a>, representing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_12th_State_Senate_district" title="California's 12th State Senate district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">12th District</a>, which includes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madera_County,California" title="Madera County, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Madera</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merced_County,California" title="Merced County, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Merced</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_County,California" title="Monterey County, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Monterey</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Benito_County,California" title="San Benito County, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">San Benito</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaus_County,California" title="Stanislaus County, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Stanislaus</a> counties. Denham announced in December 2008 that he would be a candidate for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_California" title="Lieutenant Governor of California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lieutenant Governor of California</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election,2010" title="California lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2010" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2010 election</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> but dropped those plans when Governor<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> appointed Republican State Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Maldonado" title="Abel Maldonado" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Abel Maldonado</a> to fill the vacancy left by former Lieutenant Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garamendi" title="John Garamendi" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Garamendi</a>'s election to Congress.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> Denham subsequently ran for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">State Assembly</a> but dropped those plans as well when he was asked by retiring Republican Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Radanovich" title="George Radanovich" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George Radanovich</a> to run for his open seat in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_19th_congressional_district" title="California's 19th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">California's 19th congressional district</a> in December 2009.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_agriculture_career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Early life, education, and agriculture career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#2000_run_for_State_Assembly" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 2000 run for State Assembly</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#California_Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 California Senate</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#Elections" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1 Elections</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#Tenure" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.2 Tenure</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.3 Committee assignments</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#Elections_2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1 Elections</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Electoral history</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 References</a></li>

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Enlisting at the age of 17, Denham served on active and reserve status for 16 years in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Air Force</a> and is a recipient of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritorious_Service_Medal(United_States)" title="Meritorious Service Medal (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Meritorious Service Medal</a> for his service during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Desert_Storm" title="Operation Desert Storm" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Operation Desert Storm</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Iraq</a>) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Restore_Hope" title="Operation Restore Hope" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Operation Restore Hope</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Somalia</a>). In 2006, he was honored by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_National_Guard" title="California National Guard" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">California National Guard</a> with its highest military award, the "Order of California" service award, for distinguished service. After graduating from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Polytechnic_State_University,San_Luis_Obispo" title="California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo</a>, Denham went into the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_the_United_States" title="Agriculture in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">agriculture industry</a>.

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Denham ran for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">California State Assembly</a> against Salinas City Councilman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Salinas" title="Simon Salinas" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Simon Salinas</a> as a political novice. Salinas spent $1,270,380 and Denham spent $1,109,466 which combined was one of the more expensive Assembly races of the year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> Salinas defeated Denham by more than 11,000 votes, or almost 9%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a>

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Denham ran for the State Senate in 2002 against former state Assemblyman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rusty_Areias&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rusty Areias (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rusty Areias</a>. The election occurred on November 5, 2002 but the close vote count caused the lead in the race to go back and forth for several days.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a>

The race featured many negative political ads and those negative political ads appear to have allowed Jeff Denham to win against the more experienced Areias.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a> The race was one of the most expensive legislative races in state history with over $6,300,000 dollars spent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-modbee.com-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a> The Denham campaign attacked Areias for outstanding tax liens. Republicans funded waves of campaign literature and television commercials renewing years-old charges against Areias on a variety of subjects.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-modbee.com-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>

Denham won the race 48%-47%, or by 1,843 votes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-ourcampaigns.com-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a> Denham managed a close victory in a seat where the Democrats had an almost 15% advantage in registration.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a>

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Denham won re-election to a second term with 58% of the vote.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-ReferenceA-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a>

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During the 2007 Budget Crisis in California, Denham was the Republican that Democrats targeted to gain the necessary votes to pass the budget. In response to Denham's refusal to vote for the budget on the grounds that it wasn't balanced, Senate President Pro Tem <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Perata" title="Don Perata" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Don Perata</a> demoted Denham from his position as Vice Chairman of the Senate Governmental Organization Committee. At the same time, Perata started working with local Democratic parties in the Central Valley to create a petition to start a<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_election" title="Recall election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">recall election</a> against Denham. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Secretary_of_State" title="California Secretary of State" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">California Secretary of State</a> certified the petition, and its proponents collected 50,000 signatures before the deadline in February 2008.

On the June 3, 2008 election, the voters opposed the recall by a 76%-24% margin, and Denham continued as State Senator for California's 12th State Senate District.

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During is time in the state legislature, Denham focused his efforts on education, agriculture and job creation. He called for a reduction in government waste in Sacramento, better use of state surplus assets and a crackdown on sexual predators.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-Path_to_Power-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a>

Denham's awards include Legislator of the Year by the California State Sheriffs' Association (2004), Outstanding Legislator by the California State Sheriff's Association (2005), Legislator of the Year by the California Small Business Association (2005), Most Progressive Law Enforcement Leader of the Year by A Woman's Place of Merced (2005), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Teachers_Association" title="California Teachers Association" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">California Teachers Association</a> Gold Award (2005).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Business, Professions and Economic Development<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Education<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Agriculture<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Veterans Affairs<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Governmental Organization<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a></li>

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In December 2009, seven-term U.S. Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Radanovich" title="George Radanovich" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George Radanovich</a> announced he would retire due to health reasons. He endorsed Denham as his successor.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a>

In the Republican primary he defeated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno,California" title="Fresno, California" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Fresno</a> mayor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Patterson(mayor)" title="Jim Patterson (mayor)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jim Patterson</a>, former U.S. Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_W.Pombo" title="Richard W. Pombo" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Richard Pombo</a>, and Fresno City Councilman Larry Westerlund 36%-31%-21%-12%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a> Denham won largely by running up the votes in Stanislaus and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuolumne_County,California" title="Tuolumne County, California" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Tuolumne</a> counties, as well as Radanovich's home in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariposa_County" title="Mariposa County" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mariposa County</a>.

In the 2010 general election, Denham defeated Democrat Loraine Goodwin with 65% of the vote.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-ReferenceB-27" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a>

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After redistricting, Denham decided to run in the newly redrawn <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="California's 10th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">California's 10th congressional district</a>. Former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">NASA</a> astronaut <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Hern%C3%A1ndez_(astronaut)" title="José Hernández (astronaut)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">José Hernández</a> ran against him as the Democratic candidate. Both of them lived outside of the CD.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[28]</a> The 10th is a swing district with a 25% Hispanic voting age population.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[29]</a> Denham won with 52.7% of the vote to Democratic Hernández's 47.3%.

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In 2014 no Republican ran against Denham in the primary. Although Denham is expected to receive media endorsements over his Democratic opponent Michael Eggman,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-Caine-30" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[30]</a> his seat is regarded as "vulnerable."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-Caine-30" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[30]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[31]</a>

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In the 112th Congress, Denham voted with his party 95% of the time, and has voted with his party 90% of the time overall.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-Denham_Votes-32" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a>

In July 2012, he criticized an event put on by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Services_Administration" title="General Services Administration" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">General Services Administration</a>, which cost $268,732. He said that he believes the controversy goes even further than the GSA.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-GSA_on_event-33" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a>

In October 2013, Denham co-sponsored the comprehensive immigration reform bill introduced by House Democrats. In announcing his support for the bill, he stated: "We can’t afford any more delays. I support an earned path to citizenship to allow those who want to become citizens to demonstrate a commitment to our country, learn English, pay fines and back taxes and pass background checks."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a>

Denham has argued that the national deficit is the biggest issue, which he called a threat to the nation's freedom. He has stressed his desire to use the economic downturn to reassess and find different ways to drive the United States forward.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-Denham_The_Issues-35" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a>

In August 2014, Denham broke ranks with the Republican Party and voted against a bill that would have dismantled the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals" title="Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Transportation_and_Infrastructure" title="United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Transportation and Infrastructure Committee</a>

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He owns and operates Denham Plastics, a supplier of reusable containers in the agriculture industry.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a> He and his family also farm almonds at their ranch in Merced County.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a>

Denham and his wife Sonia have two children, Austin and Samantha.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-About_Denham-39" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a>

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<table class="wiki table" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><caption>California Assembly District 28</caption><tbody><tr><th>Year</th><th> </th><th>Republican</th><th>Votes</th><th>Pct</th><th> </th><th>Democrat</th><th>Votes</th><th>Pct</th><th> </th><th>Third Party</th><th>Party</th><th>Votes</th><th>Pct</th><th> </th><th>Third Party</th><th>Party</th><th>Votes</th><th>Pct</th></tr><tr><td>2000</td><td> </td><td style=" background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">Jeff Denham</td><td align="right" style=" background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">54,729</td><td style=" background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">44%</td><td> </td><td style=" background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">Simon Salinas</td><td align="right" style=" background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">66,011</td><td style=" background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">53%</td><td> </td><td style=" background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">JJ Vogel</td><td style=" background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">Reform</td><td style=" background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">2,891</td><td style=" background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">2%</td><td> </td><td style=" background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">Roger Ver</td><td style=" background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">Libertarian</td><td style=" background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">2,134</td><td style=" background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">2%</td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table>

<table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><caption style=" font-weight: bold;">California Senate District 12</caption><tbody><tr><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Year</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"> </th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Republican</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Votes</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Pct</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"> </th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Democrat</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Votes</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Pct</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"> </th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Third Party</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Party</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Votes</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Pct</th></tr><tr><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">2002<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-ourcampaigns.com-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">Jeff Denham</td><td align="right" style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">73,877</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">48%</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">Rusty Areias</td><td align="right" style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">72,034</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">47%</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">David Eaton</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">Libertarian</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">6,950</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">5%</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td></tr><tr><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">2006<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-ReferenceA-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a></td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">Jeff Denham</td><td align="right" style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">90,288</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">58%</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">Wiley Nickel</td><td align="right" style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">65,130</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">42%</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); 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<table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><caption style=" font-weight: bold;">California Congressional District 19 (2010) and 10 (2012-)</caption><tbody><tr><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Year</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"> </th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Republican</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Votes</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Pct</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"> </th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Democrat</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Votes</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Pct</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"> </th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Third Party</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Party</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Votes</th><th style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Pct</th></tr><tr><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California,2010" title="United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2010" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2010</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-ReferenceB-27" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a></td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">Jeff Denham</td><td align="right" style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">128,394</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">65%</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">Loraine Goodwin</td><td align="right" style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">69,912</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);">35%</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">Les Marsden</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">Independent</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">596</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(253, 253, 127);">0%</td></tr><tr><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California,2012" title="United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2012" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2012</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a></td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">Jeff Denham</td><td align="right" style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">110,265</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);">52.7%</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> </td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_M._Hernandez" title="Jose M. Hernandez" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">José Hernández</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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