About Us:
We are
District 1
We believe our elected representatives should actually represent the people of District 1. It’s no coincidence that one of the first local events our Indivisible Chico action teams started supporting was the weekly “Where’s LaMalfa?” event. Our Town Hall team has been hard at work since the chapter’s first gathering, planning and organizing the efforts to get local accountability back in our Federal Government Representation.
What Does
Elected Representation
Look Like?
The people who make up CA District 1 are diverse. We don’t all look, sound, or think the same. We all have our own interests and careers and daily lives, spread across visually and physically distinct geography and landscapes. We definitely don’t vote the same.
We want federal representation that votes in the best interests of our complex, interesting population.
We have people living here who depend on federal services, many of them are our farmers or are related to the agricultural work so prevalent in our communities. Others are invested in making sure their taxes are put to the good use of their community services, like our fire departments, hospitals, roads, and many forests we live in and around. Our collective interests don’t fit in an easy little box.
That’s why we elect someone to do the job, a job which requires that our elected representative spend their time learning about District 1 and voting in our favor on the national level.
We need someone who will vote to protect Social Security as a right, not a hand-out.
We need someone who will vote to protect our waterways and our forests and our mountain ranges and our air.
We need someone who will vote to protect our rights to due process, our rights to health care, our rights to equal freedoms.
Especially when our California District’s interests are sometimes contrary to a national political party line.
District 1 voted for someone who will vote for District 1. That is not what we got.
We want a Town Hall Meeting where we can ask our questions and be heard. Our elected representative should answer our concerns and understand the interests of the voters.
That’s why we arranged for a District 1 Constituents’ Town Hall in May, 2025.
We invited our District 1 Representative, Congressman Doug LaMalfa. He did not respond to our requests.
We hope that someday he shows up, but we will keep organizing these forums until we have representation in CA District 1 again.
The constituents and voters of District 1 have many questions that we still have no answers to, and what we are experiencing doesn't match up with how our representative is voting. We are doing our best to make sure that discrepancy is known and publicly acknowledged.