7/19/10
Daily Kos by Smileycreek
Worst Congressperson in the World.
Just last December, Wally Herger of CA-02 introduced one of his go-nowhere bills that was supposed to ease the pain of homeowner's insurance rates going up as a result of FEMA redrawing the floodplain maps. This affects a great many people along the Sacramento River in northern California's Second District...

As always, Herger's bill went nowhere, as it was introduced purely for show.

Last week the House passed HR 5114, a flood relief bill that would ease the pain of homeowner's insurance rates going up as a result of FEMA redrawing the floodplain maps.

HERGER VOTED NO ON THE BILL...

7/15/10
Record Searchlight Blog by Bruce Ross
And It's Election Season
Jim Reed's campaign fires what appears to be its first shot across Rep. Wally Herger's bow...

7/14/10
Mt. Shasta News by Paul Boerger
Fall River Democrat Challenges Herger
Jim Reed, the Democratic candidate for the Second Congressional District, visited Mount Shasta July 4 to ride in the parade and promote his campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Wally Herger in the November election...

6/26/10
Record Searchlight by Ryan Sabalow
Wally's Wealth: Herger in Top 10% of House
U.S. Rep. Wally Herger hasn’t felt the financial sting of the Great Recession like many of his constituents.

Although the value of the 65-year-old Chico Republican’s assets took a dip during the financial plunge, he has more assets now than he did in 2004.

According to 2009 financial disclosure statements analyzed by the Record Searchlight, Herger reported between $3 million and $12.1 million of assets.

That’s at least $1 million more than what he reported five years earlier...

6/3/10
AppealDemocrat.com by Howard Yune
Herger's 12 Term Tenure Questioned
The lone Democrat facing Herger, Reed promised a moderate course, balancing support for gun owners' rights, curbs on executive pay over $1 million, and efforts to steer more federal money to Shasta County and other North State areas that traditionally have received below-average funding for health and social services. Reed called such unwillingness to cross the party lines Herger's greatest weakness.

"In 24 years, he's voted the GOP line 94 percent of the time; I've seen that instead of representing the people he's representing the party," the Fall River Mills lawyer said Wednesday. "If you're voting that high a percentage on party lines, you're not truly representing the people."

6/2/10
DailyKos.com
Jim's Diary, with questions and comments
Check it out, and make comments!

5/17/10
Red Bluff Daily News by Richard Mazzucchi
Positive Point: Wally's World Vs. Real World
Come next November it will be time to retire the likes of Mr. Herger from government service by electing new representatives to act responsibly and aggressively to address our local and global environmental imperatives, and seize opportunities to build new industries and ways of doing business that will ensure American competitiveness and productivity serving the needs of our evolved society. I encourage everyone to examine the platform of the progressive democratic caucus at www.progressivecaucuscdp.org and the skills of candidate James Reed at www.reednow.com before rewarding Mr. Herger for his apparent lack of concern about our planet and inability to help us secure a sustainable future....

5/12/10
Progressive News Radio Interview
Listen to the Interview here.

5/13/10
Record Searchlight by Scott Mobley
Herger Challenged by Democrat, Republican in Race for Congress
Congressman Wally Herger, R-Chico, will face challenges this year from the moderate left and the rigorous right.

Herger, 64, has represented the reliably Republican 10-county 2nd Congressional District for nearly 24 years. He sits on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means, a gatekeeper for federal spending. Herger has voted with his party colleagues 96 percent of the time during the current Congress, according to a Washington Post analysis....

03/31/10
Chico Enterprise Record by Quentin Colgan
Letter: Herger Misses a Chance to Help
When you refuse to participate, you are not representing your constituents. You are not doing the job you were elected to do.
Thanks for nothing, Herger...

03/29/10
Chico Enterprise Record by Maria Phillips
Letter: Herger Stands in Way of Change
Please begin to think about voting for Jim Reed, the reasonable alternative from Shasta County. He's running not as a career politician funded by the insurance companies but as a principled individual whose life experience has prepared him to serve as our representative able to lead us out of the morass. He'll do it with intelligence and class and, unlike Herger, he won't fan the flames of extremism...


02/13/10
DailyKos.com
"Talking Mailpiece" Blasts Right Wing Terrorists
Now someone has the guts to throw Herger's words back at him with the most innovative political mailer I've ever encountered....