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Graphic Designer/Businessman
Candidate's Political Party
Democratic
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Housing, of all kinds, is too expensive. My wife and I both hold good-paying jobs but home ownership is out of reach. We grew up in homes our parents owned but, as of now, our children won't. It adds to a sense of families falling behind last generation. I support a federal program of affordable and sustainable housing construction for rent and own with downpayment assistance to first-time homebuyers.
Like many Americans, our health care premiums went up this year. Ours nearly doubled, making us one of the luckier ones as others face triple or quadruple increases. Many of whom will forego insurance altogether because they cannot afford it. In Congress, I will fight to restore cuts to Medicaid and bring back the enhanced ACA subsidies which expired at the start of this year.
In the long-term, we need to move away from this for-profit health care system. Right now we pay exorbitant premiums to companies who try to find ways to deny us care including through the use of unassisted AI. It is a system that places small businesses at a disadvantage to compete for talent with larger companies who can provide full premium coverage. We can free individuals, families, and small businesses from the burdens of skyrocketing premiums and debilitating medical debt with Medicare for All.
As the father of two young boys, I understand first-hand the high cost of child care. Our family had to make the tough decision to send only one son to child care, part-time, because it is so unaffordable. My wife and I both work from home which granted us the flexibility to keep our children home to save money. Many working families simply do not have that luxury. They have to make it work somehow. The research is unambiguous about what is built in those early years and what is lost when they pass without it.
For twenty years, I have worked in the trenches. With labor—AFL, AFT, SEIU—fighting for better pay and better conditions. With health care advocates at Health Access, NNU, and beyond, fighting for more access and better care. With environmentalists at LCV, EDF, NRDC, fighting for cleaner air, cleaner water, and a planet still worth inheriting. With immigration activists at America's Voice and elsewhere, fighting for a fairer system and a pathway to citizenship.
Over the years, I have helped elect Democrats up and down the ballot. I served under Governor Howard Dean at the DNC to elect Barack Obama. I joined Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in a senior communications and digital role. As a digital consultant, I’ve worked with many—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Beto O'Rourke, Barbara Lee, Ro Khanna, Ayanna Pressley, Jahana Hayes, Katie Porter, Robert Garcia, and more.
We need comprehensive immigration reform. The legal immigration system is woefully underfunded and under-resourced with 3.75 million cases in the backlog as Donald Trump fires immigration judges who do not carry out his bidding. Comprehensive reform must also include a pathway to citizenship, especially for those who arrived in the U.S. as young people and otherwise grew up as Americans.
For far too long, Democrats have treated immigration as a “third rail” as Rahm Emanuel once described it. The public’s views on immigration are fungible. When Democrats cede the issue to Republicans to demagogue for their bigoted base, the American people follow them because they hear no other countervailing story.
There must be a concerted messaging strategy to uplift immigration as good. It strengthens us. It enriches our nation. Immigration powered the American century. We should connect today’s immigrants to the waves of immigrants in the past including my Italian and Irish ancestors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The nation’s current system of campaign finance is one of legal bribery. Our elections are awash in money from wealthy and corporate interests. Outside spending ballooned by 28x between 2008 and 2024. Elon Musk alone spent more than $290 million to put Donald Trump back into the White House. What did it get him? Musk was placed in control of an unconstitutional destruction of federal agencies which confronted his businesses.
We must pass a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United, prohibit super PACs, limit campaign spending to political candidates and parties, prohibit political appointments of campaign contributors, place a ban on private fundraising for presidential libraries until they are out of office, and transition toward public financing of elections, and more.
Build upon the $250 million investment made by the Biden administration for long-term conservation projects in the Lower Basin of the Colorado River and make them permanent and predictable with dedicated funding. While doing so, we must also ensure Tribal water rights are quantified and honored. Congress must also expand and reform water recycling and reuse programs such as raising the federal cost-share cap for Title XVI water recycling projects and providing funding to expand the Large-Scale Water Recycling Program created under the Biden-era infrastructure law. Congress must also pursue an expansion of the EPA's Emerging Contaminants fund, ensure chemical manufacturers bear the the liability for remediation, and invest more funding to assist rural and low-income communities.
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