When is wally herger up for reelection

Herger announced Tuesday that he would not seek re-election, marking the second retirement in recent days from a longstanding GOP member of California's congressional delegation. Wally Herger retiring after 13 terms. No profanity, hate speech or personal attacks. No off-topic remarks. No disinformation about current events.

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Herger endorsed LaMalfa for his state Senate race in Another long-serving California Republican, Rep. Elton Gallegly, announced Saturday he would not seek reelection and would retire after 25 years in Congress.

View the discussion thread. California is using a new open-primary system for electing congressional and legislative lawmakers where voters, regardless of registration, can select candidates from any party. Herger, who has nine children and 11 grandchildren, said in a statement that the privilege of serving in Congress also led to sacrifices, particularly time spent away from family.

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Logue is focusing on his campaign for Assembly, he said, though he hasn't ruled out seeking a state Senate seat should LaMalfa move to Congress. That's a good day. Bosetti, who faced an uphill fundraising battle against Logue, isn't changing his campaign, he said. My first instinct is we're not going to change a thing," he said. Herger said Tuesday he knows LaMalfa well and shares his conservative views, the Enterprise-Record reported.

The congressman, who generally doesn't endorse local candidates in his district before a primary election, also endorsed LaMalfa over Chico Republican Rick Keene in the race for the Fourth District Senate seat which LaMalfa handily won in LaMalfa said if elected to Congress he'd concentrate on reviving the economy of the north state by promoting agriculture, mining and the timber industry, the Enterprise-Record reported.

California's next primary election is an open primary, in which candidates of all parties compete against each other for the two top spots, instead of seeking their parties' nominations. That means the general election could have two Republican candidates face off for Herger's seat. Jim Reed, a lawyer from Fall River Mills who narrowly lost to Herger in , so far is the only Democrat to announce entrance into the race.

Reed said Herger's announcement is favorable for his campaign, though not as favorable as running in the new 1st Congressional District. A state redistricting commission in August approved political boundaries that shift Siskiyou, Tehama and Shasta counties into the district that runs in northeastern California to the Nevada border. Local issues should take priority over national issues and local voices should be heard in Washington, D.