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.
Our nation has lost its footing on the world stage. In one quick year, President Trump has managed to alienate allies and empower our adversaries, while gutting U.S. embassies worldwide. As your Congressman, I will do what the Chairman of Foreign Affairs, Rep. Ed Royce, has not: hold the executive branch accountable for the decimation of the U.S. State Department and our waning global influence.
As a member of Operation Key Resolve in 2014, I was boots on ground in South Korea alongside our Republic of Korea allies, training and simulating potential scenarios that could occur with the unstable North Korean regime. I never could have imagined that our country would elect a comparably unstable leader, one who resorts to tweeting about the relative size of nuclear buttons. In the last year we have seen an acceleration in North Korea’s nuclear program, which should concern entire world. We need leaders in Congress who will hold the executive branch accountable and prevent further deterioration of global security. That’s why I am running for Congress.