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Joe Baca
Joe Baca
This page is about Joe Baca, the California Congressman. For his son, see former Assemblyman Joe Baca, Jr.
Joe Baca Years of service Battles/wars 1966-1968 Vietnam War
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California’s 43rd district Incumbent Assumed office November 16, 1999 Preceded by Born George Brown, Jr. January 23, 1947 (1947-01-23) Belen, New Mexico Democratic Barbara Baca Joe Baca, Jr. Jeremy Baca Natalie Baca Jennifer Baca Rialto, California California State University, Los Angeles public relations Roman Catholic
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Jose Baca (born January 23, 1947), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing California’s 43rd congressional district (map). Joe Baca, as he is usually known, has served in Congress since winning a special election in 1999 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative George Brown. The district includes the cities of Colton, Fontana, Rialto, Ontario and San Bernardino, as well as the areas of Bloomington and Muscoy. He serves on the House Financial Services Committee, where he is a member of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, and the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit. Rep. Baca also serves on the House Agriculture Committee, where he is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Departmental Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Rep. Baca is the Chair of the CHC Corporate America Task Force, which aims to increase Hispanic representation in corporate America. He created and co-chairs the Congressional Sex and Violence in the Media Caucus. Other caucus memberships include the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, the Military/ Veterans Caucus, the Native American Caucus and the U.S.-Mexico Caucus.
Early life
Baca was born in Belén, New Mexico in 1947, the youngest of 15 children[1] in a house where little English was spoken. His father was a railroad laborer.[1] When Joe was a young boy his family moved to Barstow, California. Baca worked shining shoes at age 10, delivered newspapers, and later worked as a laborer for the Santa Fe Railroad, until he was drafted in 1966. He served in the U.S. Army until 1968.[2]
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United States Army
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Following military service, Baca earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from California State University, Los Angeles. He worked for 15 years in community relations with General Telephone and Electric. In 1979, he was the first Latino elected to the Board of Trustees for the San Bernardino Valley College District. He was elected to the State Assembly in 1992,[1] and to the State Senate in 1998.[1]
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a letter to Baca asking for a new election with a secret ballot. They claimed that Baca was elected chair of the Caucus in a public ballot, despite Caucus rules for electing a chair that require a secret ballot election.[5] On January 31, 2007, The Politico reported that Rep. Baca had called Loretta Sanchez a "whore." Citing Baca’s alleged insult and the perceived impropriety in Baca’s election to chairman of the CHC, as well as Baca’s treatment of Latina members in the CHC, Loretta Sanchez resigned from the Caucus along with her sister, three other female California members and one female member from Arizona.[5] Rep. Baca has denied making the insult.[7] Rep. Loretta Sanchez and Rep. Solis alleged that Rep. Baca made the remark in the summer of 2006. The two congresswomen state that they heard the remark from unnamed sources, although The Politico identified California State Assemblyman Fabian Núñez as one of those who heard the insult firsthand and told Loretta Sanchez.[8] She said that Baca confirmed the comments to her sister Linda Sanchez the day before Loretta Sanchez confronted him over the accusation.[3]
Personal life
Baca and his wife, Barbara, began their own business, Interstate World Travel, in San Bernardino in 1989. They have four children: Joe Jr., Jeremy, Natalie and Jennifer. Son Joe Baca, Jr. served one term as state assemblyman for California’s 62nd district, marking the first time a father and son have served from the same California legislative district.
Controversies
According to the Los Angeles Times, Baca, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, directed Caucus funds from its PAC[3] BOLDPAC (Building Our Leadership Diversity)[4] to the unsuccessful California campaigns of his sons, Joe Baca, Jr. and Jeremy Baca.[5] At the time, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) and five other members dropped out of the PAC in protest of these actions.[3] They alleged that the funds, meant to elect Hispanic candidates, should not have been used to help Baca’s sons run against Hispanic candidates and that in a previous race funded by the PAC, Joe Jr. had run against Hispanic candidates.[4] Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a report stating that Rep. Baca had paid his daughter $27,000 from campaign funds and donated more than $20,000 to his sons’ political campaigns from his own campaign funds.[6] They also report accusations that were made in 2006 by former members of Baca’s Washington staff that they were sent to California in 2004 for a staff retreat and pressured to work on Joe Baca, Jr.’s campaign for the state Assembly on their paid time for the senior Baca.[1] In January 2007, fellow Hispanic Caucus members including Loretta Sanchez, Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Hilda Solis (D-CA) and Sanchez’s sister Linda Sanchez (D-CA) wrote
Awards
Rep. Baca has received many honors for his public service. Recent awards include the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President’s Achievement Award, the 2006 California Hunger Fighter Award (first time awarded to a Member of Congress), and the National Farmers Union Presidential Award for Leadership. He has also had two local parks named after him: the Joe Baca Senior Field at the Empire Center in Fontana and the Joe Baca Field at the Rialto Boys and Girls Club.
Committee assignments
• • Subcommittee on Departmental Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry (Chairman) • Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry • • Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises • Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit • • Subcommittee on Water and Power
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content/article/2007/02/01/ AR2007020101416.html. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
Caucus membership
• Congressional Hispanic Caucus (Former Chairman) • Corporate America, Technology, Communications and the Arts Task Force (Chairman) • Blue Dog Coalition
See also
• Baca Family of New Mexico
References
External links
• U.S. Congressman Joe Baca official [1] ^ "Former staff accuse Baca of ’forced House site volunteering’ (Culture of Corruption • Joe Baca at the Biographical Directory of Alert)". The Hill. 2006-05-18. the United States Congress [2] "Veterans in the US House of • Federal Election Commission — Joe Baca Representatives 109th Congress" (PDF). campaign finance reports and data Navy League. http://web.archive.org/ • On the Issues — Joe Baca issue positions web/20070626235918/ and quotes http://www.navyleague.org/ • OpenSecrets.org — Joe Baca campaign legislative_affairs/HouseVets.pdf. contributions Retrieved on 2007-10-08. • AllBallots.com: Voting Records [3] ^ Bunis, Dena (2007-02-01). "Sanchez • Project Vote Smart — Representative Joe quits caucus". The Orange County Baca (CA) profile Register. http://www.ocregister.com/ • SourceWatch Congresspedia — Joe Baca ocregister/homepage/abox/ profile article_1561646.php. Retrieved on • Washington Post — Congress Votes 2007-06-20. Database: Joe Baca voting record [4] ^ Aleman, Adam (2006-11-29). "Baca to • Working Joe Baca official campaign site Chair Congressional Hispanic Caucus • Explaining his agenda of increasing La Despite Female Members’ Misgivings". Raza Flash Report. http://www.flashreport.org/ commentary0b.php?authID=2006112123195930&postID=2006112903535864&post_offsetP=0. Retrieved on 2007-06-20. [5] ^ "Who’s a ’whore’?". Los Angeles Times. 2007-02-03. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/ editorials/la-edbaca03feb03,0,7114933.story?coll=lanews-comment-editorials. Retrieved on 2007-06-20. [6] "Watchdog lists 64 in the House paying kin out of campaign funds". Citizens for Ethics. 2007-06-19. http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/ 29117. Retrieved on 2007-06-20. [7] Hearn, Josephine (2007-02-02). "Sanchez Accuses Democrat of Calling Her a ’Whore,’ Resigns from Hispanic Group". The Politico. http://www.politico.com/ news/stories/0107/2572.html. Retrieved on 2007-02-08. [8] Werner, Erica (2007-02-01). "Hispanic Caucus Members Toil Over Insult". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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Political offices Preceded by William H. Lancaster Preceded by Ruben Ayala Preceded by George Brown, Jr. Preceded by Ken Calvert California State Assembly, 62nd District 1992–1998 California State Senate, 32nd District 1998–1999
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Succeeded by John Longville Succeeded by Nell Soto
United States House of Representatives Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Succeeded by from California’s 42nd congressional district Gary Miller 1999–2003 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Incumbent from California’s 43rd congressional district 2003 – present
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