I am the only independent, non-partisan candidate running for the US House of Representatives in CA37 to represent Los Angeles and Culver City. I am also the only candidate not taking donations from anyone.

That means not a penny from corporations, special interests, the wealthy or you! This is how we make the change to a completely broken system and make an America that for the first time works for all of us.

To truly be an independent means being beholden to no one but you, the people. The only way to do that is to not take money from anyone. I am running to be the example that candidates can win without the morally corrupting money and with the pure power of the people.

I’m not looking for your money, I just want your vote.

As a Black man in America, I know all too well how unaccountable law enforcement enforces inequality. I have served my country as a Marine and my community as a peace officer, but all too often law enforcement does not see a full citizen. My experience is the American experience for Black and Brown people in this country. Enough is enough after 400 years.

I have been arrested for exercising my First Amendment rights at a public meeting. Then Sheriff Alex Villanueva sent his deputies to intimidate me and stop my activism. He failed!

In my 20-year career running my own home appraisal business, I often was tailed by police in neighborhoods when working while black. Most egregiously, a Sheriff’s deputy once followed me all the way home to harass me in my own driveway.

People of color pay a cost for just existing and are deemed guilty of unidentifiable crimes just for breathing. It’s a burden we carry simply for being Black or Brown. I will introduce legislation to remove the court-invented policy of qualified immunity and will bring accountability to law enforcement everywhere. The ask is not outrageous.

The ask is not to be treated special. The ask is simply to be treated as a full human being, the bare minimum right of every single resident of CA37.