An engineer. Not a politician. Time to build.
CA-5 has been told to wait for too long — for the grant, the policy, the next election cycle. Waiting isn't a plan. Building is.
CA-5 · CANDIDATE
Why I'm doing this — in plain language.
I grew up in Amador County. Hard work, integrity, giving back, treating people with respect — those weren't slogans where I'm from. They were table stakes.
I became an engineer because I wanted to build things that mattered. I spent years developing technologies to keep American troops safer. That work taught me something Washington has forgotten: real problems don't get solved by speeches. They get solved by people who show up, measure twice, and do the work.
CA-5 has been treated like a flyover district for too long. Affordability, wildfire risk, an economy hollowing out, a representative who answers to corporate donors before he answers to us — these are solvable. Not by another career politician. By someone who knows how to actually solve things.
Every county.
Every week. Every neighbor.
Sierra foothills · Central Valley
Living rooms · Town halls · Coffee shops
The neighbors
Town hall · Amador County
Showing up
Community gathering · Calaveras
The work
One conversation at a time
Four things worth fighting for.
No vague pledges. Four commitments grounded in what CA-5 actually needs. An engineer's approach: define the problem, measure it, ship a solution. Repeat.
Make life affordable again.
Working families in CA-5 pay more for housing, groceries, and energy than they did five years ago — while wages have stalled. That's not partisan. It's a math problem with solutions.
- Cap prescription costs through Medicare price negotiation.
- Tax relief targeted to families under $100K, not the top 1%.
- Federal action on grocery and energy price gouging.
Wildfire defense, treated like the crisis it is.
We don't talk about wildfire here — we live it. Federal land management, insurance markets, and prevention funding all run through Congress.
- Fully fund USFS fuel reduction across federal land in CA-5.
- Federal insurance backstop for fire-country homeowners.
- Permanent FEMA pre-disaster mitigation grants.
Rural California is not flyover country.
Both parties have written off rural California — coastal Dems forget we exist, and the incumbent takes us for granted.
- Bring federal infrastructure dollars to CA-5 — actually.
- Broadband to every Sierra foothills household.
- Support local agriculture, ranching, and small business succession.
Get Big Money out of our politics.
Constituents shouldn't have to compete with corporate lobbyists for their representative's time.
- Champion meaningful campaign finance reform.
- Full disclosure of every meeting taken in office.
- Hold regular public town halls — every quarter, every county.
5 counties.
1 chance.
Let's not blow it.
CA-5 hasn't sent a Democrat to Congress in over thirty years. That's not destiny — that's neglect. A real ground game, funded by people who live here, changes that. We have one shot. We need yours.
elected a Democrat
coordinated ground game
powering this campaign
I'm an engineer. I don't get paid to be right — I get paid to solve the problem. That's the standard I'll hold myself to in Congress.
Candidate · California's 5th Congressional District
Every door we knock
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