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.
For years, net neutrality protected free speech, competition, and diversity on the internet. The decision by President Trump’s FCC to rescind these rules wrongfully makes every American citizen susceptible to corporate greed by allowing big telecom companies to profit by acting as gatekeepers over what’s allowed on their networks, and how accessible it is. One of my first priorities in Congress will be to pass legislation that fully restores net neutrality protections.
Over the last two years, we have heard repeated warnings from the intelligence community that our cyber security is woefully susceptible to hacking from foreign adversaries. President Trump has refused to address this issue simply because Russian hacking helped him win the White House in 2016. Congress must hold the Trump administration accountable and address this critical issue to make sure our networks are secure and protected.