Job creation high on list as Logue seeks re-election to current post

Dan Logue Re-election Committee

DAN LOGUE

Creating jobs is high on the priority list for Dan Logue, R-Lake Wildwood, who announced Wednesday, Nov. 9, that he is formally seeking re-election to a third term in the California State Assembly, but this time from the new 1st Assembly District that includes Shasta County.

“I met with the Governor’s team this week and they have agreed to work with us on creating jobs in the north state,” Logue said during a telephone interview.

“For the past three years, it has been my distinct honor to serve the voters of the north state” in the 3rd Assembly District, Logue writes in a press release announcing his candidacy.

“I know that California’s economy and California families are struggling. Businesses are leaving and taking jobs with them,” said Logue, who recently led a bi-partisan fact-finding trip to Texas to find out why that state was adding 165,000 jobs in the same period that California was losing 1.2 million jobs.

As its chairman, Logue recently concluded a road tour with an Assembly subcommittee — the Republican Working Group on Economic Recovery and Job Creation —throughout northern California including a stop in Redding. The tour was designed to elicit comments from truckers, restaurant workers, gas station owners, contractors, home health care providers and timber industry executives regarding job creation strategies and the sometimes insurmountable hurdles created by government regulation.

A former two-term Yuba County Supervisor and a Realtor by profession, Logue served the Republican Party as Yolo County’s chairman for Ronald Reagan's first presidential campaign in 1980, Yuba County’s chairman for President George W. Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 and chaired Yuba County’s campaign to elect Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California in 2006.

As chairman of the Republican Caucus Task Force on Jobs and Economic Recovery, Logue as identified job creation, bipartisan consensus and legislative reform as the engines that will lead California back to prosperity.

“Reforms that reduce regulations, lower tax burdens, encourage businesses to expand and create job growth will restore our economy. I have a record of doing just that and we have had some noteworthy successes,” Logue said, noting he has been able to get six such bills passed and signed into law this past year.

One reform Logue is intent on pushing is the idea of citizen legislators who work part-time for part-time pay.

“I think if we can get the legislators out of Sacramento for half of each year, they will stop regulating us to death,” Logue said.

For his part, Logue is drawing compliments from other high-ranking Republicans.

Congressman Tom McClintock said, “Dan Logue is one of the great forces in the Assembly. Californians could not possibly have a more fearless or energetic defender against over-reaching bureaucracy than Dan Logue.”

Fellow north state Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, who for years has represented Shasta County said this of Logue: “(He) has fought tirelessly for the working families of California.”

Logue is the third candidate to announce a bid in the 1st Assembly District. Anderson native Rick Bosetti, now serving on the Redding City Council, made his intentions known to the Grass Valley Union on Friday, Nov. 4, one day after Grass Valley resident Charley Hooper, a Libertarian, announced his intent to run for the newly redrawn 1st Assembly District seat.

Bosetti, a Republican, said Wednesday that he will make a formal announcement to Shasta County media on Dec. 6.