Audrey Denney announced today that she will be running again for a congressional seat in 2020, kicking off her second campaign for the seat in as many elections. Denney lost the Nov. 2018 election to Senator Doug LaMalfa.

LaMalfa, R-Richvale, won 56.1 percent of the vote districtwide, though Denney won in Butte County. LaMalfa is currently serving his fourth term in Congress; prior to joining the House, he was a California state assemblyman and state senator.

The seat in question is California’s 1st congressional district, which encompasses Butte, Lassen , Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou and Tehama counties, as well as most of Nevada County, and parts of Glenn and Placer counties.

In her election announcement, available as a video on Denney’s website, www.audreyforcongress.com, she mentions the devastating Camp Fire, which occurred less than 48 hours after the last election. Denney makes note of the resilience of the communities that were affected and says “it’s time we had a representative who reflects this spirit.” She also says that she would “responsible to voters in the district,” not to “political interests or gamesmanship.”

In her last election, Denney was endorsed by the editorial board of the Chico Enterprise-Record, which had not endorsed a Democrat for the position since the 1970s.

Denney lives in Chico and has a background in agriculture. She strongly hinted at another run for the seat in 2020 in an interview with the Enterprise-Record just one day after the Nov. 6 election.