GOP rails against Newsom’s late date for special election to fill Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s seat

This year’s midterm election already was going to be frustrating for many voters in a vast, rural swath of Northern California whose staunchly conservative district has been redrawn to favor Democrats after the passage of Proposition 50 last fall. Their longtime Republican congressman, Doug LaMalfa, a rice farmer from rural Butte County who had represented […]