What I Stand For
Life in Northern California is beautiful, but we’re paying for it: the financial pain of living here is growing for so many of us and our neighbors.
We work hard, contribute to our community, and pay our fair share. In return, we hope for an affordable life, the chance to build a better one, a government that will support us when we’re down, and a system that rewards our achievements.
Instead, “making it” feels out of reach — it’s getting harder and harder just to get by. And it’s not because we aren’t working hard enough.
It’s because our system is rigged against us.
It doesn’t represent us, and it isn’t working for us. It’s not increasing affordability or making it easier to live the American Dream.
The system favors the large corporations that buy into Washington’s corrupt pay-to-play system and the politicians who line their pockets. Simply put: these same corporations pay off our politicians and fund their campaigns.
They fund Trump’s henchmen who cut corporate taxes and attack the services we rely on — that my family relied on. Medicaid. Food stamps. Disability checks.
And yes, they even fund politicians in our party: the Corporate Democrats whose benefactors burn down our planet and don’t pay taxes — the Corporate Democrats who for years have made empty promises to working Americans, only to quiver in the shadow of Trump.
These politicians have tried to force-feed us a choice: choose either growth and “prosperity” OR a fair, affordable society.
But this is America. Our nation embodies progress — for individuals, for families, for economy, for country, for society. We can do it all, and we can have it all. We can build, grow, and innovate — all while making life more affordable, more equal, and more fair.
But, to do so, we, the Democratic Party, need vision:
Bold leaders, new ideas and Our American Values.
To innovate and excel.
To make life more affordable.
To protect and expand our inalienable rights.
To aspire to greatness.
To change our party, our politics, and our country.
To actually represent us.
To actually fight back against Donald Trump.
To redeem the American Dream.
I will fight every day to do exactly that.
