He’s running for Congress in California’s 45th Congressional district because Washington is broken. As our community struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, career politicians are more interested in serving themselves and their partisan agenda rather than serving the people who elected them.
The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling has been disastrous for American democracy, allowing special interests and the one percent to buy elections and influence with politicians. Outside spending on federal elections has more than doubled since the 2010 decision, leading to policies that only benefit the one percent, like the Republican Tax Scam, while preventing meaningful legislation from being passed on so many important issues.
It’s no surprise that Republicans refuse to pass gun control regulations supported by 86 percent of Americans when the NRA spent $53 million in 2016 to elect Donald Trump and a Republican Congress. When wealthy interest groups can buy a seat at the legislative table to prevent actions that would help the American people, that’s oligarchy, not democracy. We must immediately overturn the dangerous Citizens United decision and restore our democratic values of one person, one vote.