TALKING ABOUT ME
Whip smart, young and goal-oriented. Just what we need. Someone who knows that the late nights in Congress aren’t spent to win, they’re spent to solve problems. Someone strong and pragmatic, with new solutions to old issues. Someone ready to do something.
We keep voting for career politicians and wealthy elites, then we wonder why we’re not being represented. Well I’m neither. I’m
real. We need someone real, who understands the times we live in. I didn’t inherit a business or get recruited by the delegation. I’m just someone young, savvy and passionate, ready to work with minds of all kinds, from places of all kinds. Because Republican or Democrat, honesty matters, integrity matters, hard work matters.
And that's what's echoed in our community. So...
...Let’s talk about our community.
I’m a father and a husband from Eden Prairie, Minnesota. It’s where our daughter Calamity Joe was born. It’s where she took her first steps. It’s where she naps and plays and toddles, and it’s our Eden Prairie community where she goes to ECFE and moms clubs. It’s Toddler Days at the Chanhassan library that introduces her to new books. She plays bare foot on the clean playgrounds and stays active at the Community Center. This is what community is about. It’s the American dream. We live it everyday.
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I'm serious.
And I know serious because I wrote comedy. Sketch, scripts and satire. I know what's funny and I know that what’s happening in our government right now isn’t.
I was born in Philadelphia to a railroad engineer and a night-shift nurse. The second child of four brought home to an apartment a 90-minute train ride from my dad’s facility. We moved from station to station over the next 20 years, through Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Arkansas, Ohio and Nebraska. I went to school in California, got sick in New York City and got my miracle here in Minnesota.
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I care about the uninsured because I was uninsured. I take sides with the sick because I was sick. I will protect the dying because I was dying. I spent many months thinking they were my last ones on this planet, and I believe, deeply, in the soul my God gave me, in not-for-profit medicine because it saved my life.
I take healthcare as seriously as you do. It’s why I’m still here.
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It's what afforded me the life I have.
And when I met my wife, Bette, we followed the North Star to the land of nice, got married and bought our first house.
(As I write this the A/C is leaking so if you know a good repair man, hit me up.)
What’s now and what’s next.
We need to stop voting for the people who think our past is ahead of us. This isn’t the 1980s. We’re not dreaming of flying cars; we’re building autonomous ones. Robots aren’t going to invade our homes; they’re going to take our jobs. It takes youth to understand that. And it takes a millennial to solve for it.
It takes a millennial to understand that the great wars of tomorrow will be fought in computer code. And that the future of energy isn’t buried in Saudi Arabia. It’s blossoming, right now, in the brains of tomorrow’s geniuses. Like my daughter. And yours.
I’ve got a lot of years ahead of me, on this planet and in this country. So I want to protect both.
I understand the future because I am the future.
Let’s do something.