Jeff Denham
Jeff Denham | |
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12th district | |
In office December 2, 2002 – November 30, 2010 | |
Preceded by | Dick Monteith |
Succeeded by | Anthony Cannella |
Personal details | |
Born | Jeffrey John Denham July 29, 1967 Hawthorne, California, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse |
Sonia Denham (m. 1993) |
Children | 2 |
Education | Staff Sergeant |
Battles/wars | Operation Desert Storm Operation Restore Hope |
Awards | Meritorious Service Medal |
Jeffrey John Denham (born July 29, 1967) is an American politician, United States Air Force veteran, and businessman. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. representative for California's 10th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. Denham first won election to the U.S. House in 2010, representing California's 19th congressional district for one term before redistricting led him to run in the 10th district in 2012.
From 2002 to 2010, Denham served in the
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.[1][2][3]
Denham was narrowly defeated in his 2018 bid for re-election by Democrat Josh Harder[4] and became a lobbyist for K&L Gates.[5]
Early life, education, and military service
In 1984, at age 17, Denham enlisted in the
Denham received an associate degree from Victor Valley College in 1989 and a B.A. in political science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in 1992.[9] He has worked as a farmer and started a plastics container company to ship produce.[7]2000 State Assembly campaign
In 2000, Denham ran for the California State Assembly against City Councilman Simon Salinas, a Democrat. A total of $2.5 million was spent in the race. Salinas defeated Denham with 52% of the vote.[10]
California State Senate
Elections
- 2002
Denham ran for the State Senate in 2002 against former Democratic State Assemblyman Rusty Areias. The race featured a number of negative political advertisements and was one of the most expensive legislative races in state history, with over $6.3 million spent.[11] Denham's campaign highlighted Areias's financial difficulties, including unpaid taxes and did not focus on Areias's state policy positions.[12] Denham's negative campaign tactics drew widespread criticism, including from fellow Republicans.[13]
The election was on November 5, 2002, but the vote count was close; the lead in the race went back and forth for several days.[14] Denham won by 1,843 votes, 48% to 47%.[15]
- 2006
In November 2006, Denham won re-election to a second term with 58% of the vote.[16] Denham's opponent, Wiley Nickel, was later elected to Congress from North Carolina in 2022.[17]
- 2008 recall attempt
In 2008, a recall effort was instigated against Denham by Democrat Don Perata after Denham declined to cast a deadlock-breaking vote on the state budget. Supporters of the recall turned in more than 60,000 signatures with the recall scheduled to appear on the ballot on June 3, 2008. In early May, Perata called off the efforts to recall Denham after it showed signs of backfiring, but the election was already on the ballot. Denham easily survived the recall by a 75.4% to 24.6% margin. Denham himself speculated that the recall effort actually helped, rather than hurt, his political career by raising his profile.[18][19]
- 2009 Lieutenant Governor and State Assembly campaigns
Denham announced in December 2008 that he would be a candidate for
Denham then campaigned briefly for the State Assembly seat being vacated by Tom Berryhill of Modesto[24][25] but in late December 2009 he dropped out of that race to run for Congress.
Tenure
During his 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.[26]
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 California Teachers Association Gold Award (2005).[27]
Committee assignments
Denham's committee assignments in the California State Senate included:[28]
- Business, Professions and Economic Development
- Education
- Agriculture
- Veterans Affairs
- Governmental Organization
U.S. House of Representatives
Elections
2010
In December 2009, seven-term U.S. Congressman
2012
After redistricting, much of the old 19th became the 16th District, which was significantly more Democratic than its successor. Meanwhile, much of the northwestern portion of the old 19th (e.g. Turlock, Riverbank, Oakdale, and the rest of northeastern Stanislaus county) was transferred to the 10th District. That district had previously been the 18th District, represented by retiring five-term Democrat Dennis Cardoza.[32] The new 10th included all of Stanislaus County and the southern portion of San Joaquin County (including Tracy and Manteca). It also included Denham's home in Atwater, which had been just outside the old 19th's boundaries. Members of the House are only required to live in the state they wish to represent.
Former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández ran against him as the Democratic candidate.[33] The 10th was considered a swing district in the 2012 election.[34] Denham won with 53% of the vote to Hernández's 47%.
2014
In 2014, Denham ran unopposed in the Republican primary. His Democratic opponent was Michael Eggman.
2016
Denham ran for re-election in 2016.[39] He finished first in the top-two primary on June 7, 2016, and again faced Eggman in the general election on November 8, 2016.[40] Denham won re-election with 52.4% of the vote to Eggman's 47.6%.[41] More than $11 million was spent on the race, mostly from outside groups.[42]
2018
In May 2017, investor Josh Harder became the third Democrat to announce that he would challenge Denham in 2018. He said he would focus on job creation and economic opportunity. "There's just not a lot of opportunities for entry-level positions," Harder said. "What we need [is] a better, positive vision for what the economic development of the valley can bring."[43]
Challenging Denham for the Republican nomination was veterinarian Ted Howze, who criticized Denham's support for what critics characterized as "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.
The Modesto Bee wrote on May 12, 2018, that "Jeff Denham is going to be hard to beat." By this point, the original field of Democratic candidates had been cut in half from ten. In addition to Harder, they included Sue Zwahlen, a former emergency room nurse and school board member; Michael Eggman, a former farmer who had challenged Denham in 2014 and 2016; Virginia Madueño, the former mayor of Riverbank, California; and Michael Barkley.[47] Harder was endorsed by former President Barack Obama.[48] Harder won the Democratic nomination with 16.7% of the primary vote[45] and faced Denham in the general election. Harder defeated Denham in a closely contested race, receiving 51.3% of the vote to Denham's 48.7% in a race that was not called until a week after election day.[49]
Tenure
In April 2017, Denham hosted a town hall meeting in Turlock, which approximately 1,000 constituents attended. When a constituent asked for him to support the release of Donald Trump's tax returns, Denham said "I'm not going to ask the previous president that I served under to show his birth certificate any more than I am going to ask this president to show his taxes."[50]
Denham voted in favor of the
In 2018, Denham made a bid to lead the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.[53]
Committee assignments
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
- Veterans' Affairs Committee
- Agriculture Committee
- Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit
Denham was a member of the
Political positions
As of January 2018, Denham had voted with his party in 90.5% of votes in the 115th United States Congress and voted in line with President Trump's position in 98.3% of votes. He ranked #43 out of 433 members of Congress in the number of times he had voted against his party's position.[56][57] In the 114th United States Congress, Denham was ranked as the 41st most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives (and the second most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California) in the Bipartisan Index created by The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy that ranks members of the United States Congress by their degree of bipartisanship (by measuring the frequency each member's bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and each member's co-sponsorship of bills by members of the opposite party).[58]
Denham was a close ally of then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.[59]
Vote Smart Political Courage Test
Tax reform
In December 2017, Denham helped the Republican Party pass the
Employment
Appearing on NPR in May 2018, he spoke up for the stricter requirements for food stamps in the new farm bill, which he said would encourage able-bodied people without children to take care of at home to find work.[62]
Animal rights
In September 2014, the Humane Society Legislative Fund endorsed Denham. The HSLF's
In April 2018, Denham introduced a law that would forbid the consumption of dog or cat meat. “If passed,” reported the Washington Post, “the ban would send a clear signal that the United States condemns the dog and cat meat trades in East Asia.” Denham said that the law would signal “that the U.S. will not tolerate this disturbing practice in our country” and would demonstrate “our unity with other nations that have banned dog and cat meat, and it bolsters existing international efforts to crack down on the practice worldwide.”[64]
Drug policy
Denham had a "D" rating from marijuana legalization group
Environment
As of January 2018, he had a 6% lifetime score from the environmental advocacy group the League of Conservation Voters.[66][non-primary source needed]
Economic issues
Denham had argued that the national deficit is the biggest issue for the United States, and called it a threat to the nation's freedom.[67]
In July 2012, he criticized an event put on by the General Services Administration, which cost $268,732. He said that he believed that the controversy went even further than the GSA.[68]
Denham voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2013, which led to the
Denham voted for the
Healthcare
On April 26, 2017, Denham told
During his re-election campaign, Denham falsely claimed that The Washington Post fact-checker had found his opponent's claims about the impact of Obamacare's repeal on preexisting conditions to be false. The Washington Post fact-checker responded, saying that Denham was "twisting an unrelated fact check and [was] misleading voters."[78]
High-speed rail
Denham, who served as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, had opposed plans for a
Immigration
In October 2013, Denham co-sponsored the comprehensive immigration reform bill introduced by House Democrats. In announcing his support for the bill, he said: "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."[80]
In August 2014, Denham broke ranks with the Republican Party and voted against a bill that would have dismantled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.[81]
In the autumn of 2017, Denham unsuccessfully "pleaded with Trump...not to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which provided temporary deportation relief and work permits for hundreds of thousands of people brought to the country illegally as children."[1]
In May 2018, Denham was one of a dozen House Republicans who, defying Speaker Paul Ryan, forced a vote on immigration in an effort to help the so-called Dreamers.[2] In a May 16 interview with Tucker Carlson, Denham said that "the only way we're going to get the border secured is actually working together to pass something off the floor." In order to gain support for the Mexican border wall, he said, Republicans must support action to help Dreamers. "The only way you're going to get the 60 members on a bipartisan border security bill is with this solution that is equally as important that the president of the United States is asking for."[82]
Denham said in June 2018 that he had forged an agreement with more conservative House members that would provide temporary residency visas for young immigrants and that would also fund Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico.[3]
In a June 7, 2018, interview on MSNBC, Denham said, "I want to see a fixed to our broken immigration system" and that "You shouldn't be tearing families apart." He described the Trump Administration's "zero tolerance policy" as "a bad idea."[83]
Water supply
In June 2018, Denham joined three other local members of Congress in introducing legislation “to cut through red tape to raise the spillway gates at New Exchequer Dam and improve water supply reliability for Merced County.” The measure “would provide an additional 57,000 acre-feet for irrigation, groundwater replenishment and environmental benefits.”[84]
Social issues
In May 2016, Denham initially voted against an amendment to a defense appropriations bills by Democratic Representative Sean Patrick Maloney which would prohibit government contracts with companies that don't comply with President Obama's executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT workers.[85] The following week, Denham reversed course and voted for Maloney's amendment to uphold President Obama's executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.[86]
2016 presidential race
Denham did not make an endorsement in the 2016 presidential race. He said that he planned to support the Republican nominee but did not specifically endorse Donald Trump, and that "Like many Americans from both parties, my first choice for president is not on the ballot in November."[87]
FEMA reforms
On November 21, 2017, Denham introduced the Supporting Mitigation Activities and Resiliency Targets for Rebuilding Act, also known as the SMART Rebuilding Act. The SMART Rebuilding Act, which proposed cost-saving Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reforms, was included in the U.S. House's subsequent Disaster Recovery Reform Act and supplemental appropriations bill. The disaster aid package, which included $81 billion in additional disaster relief funding in addition to Denham's FEMA reforms, was passed by the House in December 2017 in a bipartisan vote.[88]
Personal life
Denham and his wife Sonia have two children.[89] She is Hispanic, and Denham has said that he learned Spanish to communicate with her family, including to help his Mexican father-in-law through the process of gaining U.S. citizenship.[90] Denham owns and operates Denham Plastics, a supplier of reusable containers in the agriculture industry.[91] He and his family also farm almonds at their ranch in Merced County.[92]
Electoral history
Year | Republican | Votes | Pct | Democratic | Votes | Pct | Third party | Party | Votes | Pct | Third party | Party | Votes | Pct | |||||
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2000 | Jeff Denham | 54,729 | 44% | Simon Salinas | 66,011 | 53% | J. J. Vogel | Reform | 2,891 | 2% | Roger Ver | Libertarian | 2,134 | 2% |
Year | Republican | Votes | Pct | Democratic | Votes | Pct | Third party | Party | Votes | Pct | ||||
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2002 | Jeff Denham | 73,877 | 48% | Rusty Areias | 72,034 | 47% | David Eaton | Libertarian | 6,950 | 5% | ||||
2006 | Jeff Denham | 90,288 | 58% | Wiley Nickel | 65,130 | 42% |
Year | Republican | Votes | Pct | Democratic | Votes | Pct | Third party | Party | Votes | Pct | |||
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2010
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Jeff Denham | 128,394 | 65% | Loraine Goodwin | 69,912 | 35% | Les Marsden | Independent | 596 | 0% | |||
2012
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Jeff Denham | 110,265 | 53% | José M. Hernández | 98,934 | 47% | |||||||
2014
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Jeff Denham | 70,582 | 56% | Michael Eggman | 55,123 | 44% | |||||||
2016 [1]
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Jeff Denham | 110,659 | 52% | Michael Eggman | 100,646 | 48% | |||||||
2018
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Jeff Denham | 91,401 | 48.7% | Josh Harder | 96,320 | 51.3% |
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