I’m different because being a politician isn’t my career, which allows me to speak truth to power. I don’t have the worries of offending big campaign donors, such as big banks, that might hurt my campaign or fellow party members by removing their monetary contributions. My party has remained uncorrupted over the past 20 years by this influence and this is why we have had a hard time cracking the nut called Federal Government. 

I’m different because I live and work in the 4th district and you might see or meet me at the hardware store, coffee shop, volunteering at a local fundraiser, or as a coach on the bench of your child’s sports teams. I am like you and understand the real concerns of the 4th district and average Americans. I have a long-term commitment and loyalty to Northern California, especially to the 4th district where we live.

I’m just as outraged as the average American at the current state of our nation. 

• Jobs are leaving (2.4 million manufacturing since 2001).
• National debt is climbing.
• Corruption is running rampant in the halls of congress and the white house.
• The economy is based on credit instead of wages.
• Energy costs are increasing despite reduction in consumption.
• Over 30,000 lobbyists are in Washington DC.
• Wars of aggression are being fought without disclosure of their costs and how they will be funded.
• There are 700 military bases in over 130 countries.
• The Pentagon cannot account for a missing $2,000,000,000,000 (trillion).
• The Federal Reserve refuses to disclose the records of the distribution of up to $12,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) around the globe. 

I have solutions to these problems because I have looked back and studied when and how the shift began, what worked and what has not.  My website will be filled with graphs, articles, and studies showing where and how these problems came to be. 

The simplified answer is we’ve allowed big corporations to take over our government. We no longer have representatives of the people because the people do not control our elections. The solution to the root cause of our problems lies in major campaign reform. Taking the power back form big business to force our representatives to form legislation that benefits American citizens before multinational corporations. 

We have no chance of any real change in America until this one issue is rectified. Until campaigns are funded and counted by “We the People” we’ll be screaming but we'll not be heard.

We have been deceived and ignored for too long and I want to go to Washington DC and rock the status quo boat. The time is now for citizens to say “I refuse to get up and sit in the back of the Democracy Bus."

As Rosa Parks once explained:

“I didn't want to pay my fare and then go around the back door, because many times, even if you did that, you might not get on the bus at all. They'd probably shut the door, drive off, and leave you standing there.”

Let’s stop giving our fares and being left outside the Democracy Bus as we try to get on through the back door. We are done fighting wars, dying, bleeding, sweating, and starving ourselves for human rights so the Supreme Court can strip them away from us and give them to Corporations with a stroke of the pen.

The Citizens United v FEC decision on January 21, 2010 was the biggest assault on democracy in America in my lifetime and possibly since 1886 when the first case was cited to give corporations human rights using the 14th amendment.

No More Corporate Personhood. No More Money equates to Free Speech. Learn more at www.movetoamend.org.