Joe Baca (D-Calif.)
U.S. Representative (since November 1999)
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Around town, he's known as the "zestiest lawmaker," (for winning a Capitol Hill chili pepper eating contest), a self-described "street fighter" (presumably due to a rough-and tumble-childhood) and the MVP of the 2006 congressional baseball game. And his district, California's 43rd, about an hour east of the Los Angeles basin, is proclaimed to be the "Home of Rep. Joe Baca" by billboards that appear around election time.
Baca came to Congress in a special election in 1999 and remains a fixture in Southern California and Latino politics. Despite some controversy with his peers in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in 2006 and 2007, Baca won re-election in his district by more than 30 points in 2008.
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