The Issues
Cost of Living
The cost of housing, everyday necessities, and healthcare continues to strain working families in this district. Good-paying jobs are too scarce. People are upset, they just want prices that make sense and paychecks that keep up.
I will fight to strengthen this district’s economy and expand opportunities for everyone in CA-15. That starts with opposing reckless federal spending that triggers inflation — because when Washington prints money it doesn’t have, it’s working families who pay for it at the grocery store, the gas pump, and the pharmacy counter.
I will work to cut the regulatory red tape that drives up housing costs, raises the cost of doing business for small employers, and makes it harder for families to get ahead. When it takes years of permits and reviews to build housing people need now, that’s not protection — that’s bureaucracy adding zeros to the price tag.
The bottom line is simple: we need to get prices down on everything. Housing, groceries, healthcare, childcare, gas — families in this district are being squeezed from every direction, and people in Washington keep finding new ways to make it worse. I’ll fight to reverse that, because the people of CA-15 deserve a representative who understands what it costs to live here.
Immigration
No nation can survive in the long run with an open border. After four years of a border that was basically open, the reports show it’s now mostly secure.
My position, and I’ll say it plainly, because I spent 33 years dealing with exactly these situations: If you are in this country illegally and you are committing crimes here, you need to be deported. If you have a criminal record (committing crimes) in your home country and you came here illegally, you need to go. No debate.
If you are here illegally, but working hard, raising your family, contributing to your community, and never having been arrested, you need to be left alone. I am not interested in punishing people who are, otherwise, trying to do everything right or improve their lives and those of their families. I am interested in keeping this district safe — and that means going after criminals.
Housing
I’ve lived and worked in this district for 36 years. I’ve watched neighborhoods I lived or patrolled transform — not because the communities changed, but because the cost of staying changed. Families (generations) who built this district are being pushed out by housing costs that have to do with supply and demand and even more by policy failure by our elected officials.
I support cutting the red tape that makes it take years to build housing that families need now. I support local communities having control over their own zoning — not Sacramento or Washington dictating what gets built where. And I support public-private partnerships that actually produce housing that working families can afford.
But I’m also not going to pretend the market alone will fix this. When corporate and institutional investors turn housing into a profit machine, extracting maximum profit from communities they have no connection to, that’s not a free market — it’s exploitation. We need federal incentives targeted at real affordable housing, protections that keep families in their homes, and accountability for institutional investors who treat neighborhoods as portfolios.
Public Safety & Fentanyl Crisis
It is the main job of our elected officials to keep the public safe. We all deserve to feel safe in our homes, schools, and neighborhoods. I will support law enforcement. I will call-out “soft-on-crime” policies that keep letting repeat serious offenders walk free. I will oppose any type of “defund the police” movement and always support legislation to keep law enforcement fully funded as well as other public safety agencies.
Our 15th Congressional District includes most of San Mateo County and a portion of San Francisco. The fentanyl crisis has devastated families across both San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. San Francisco recorded 467 fentanyl deaths in 2025, and both counties surpassed prior year totals. This is all outrageous. I will make addressing this epidemic an immediate priority.
Protecting Our Seniors
Social Security and Medicare are earned benefits — not handouts, not entitlements in the way politicians use that word. Working people paid into these programs their entire careers. That promise must be kept. Period.
I will never vote to cut Social Security or Medicare. Let me say that plainly so there’s no room for spin: no cuts. Not to benefits, not to eligibility, not to the coverage seniors in this district depend on every single day.
But I’m also not going to pretend everything is fine. Both programs face real funding challenges, and every year Congress ignores them, and the fix gets harder. We’ve been kicking this can down the road for decades while politicians in both parties use Social Security and Medicare as talking points instead of solving the problem.
Strengthening these programs means making them solvent for the long term — so that our children and grandchildren receive the same benefits our parents and grandparents earned. That’s not a partisan issue. It’s an obligation. I’ll work across the aisle to find solutions that protect every dollar seniors have earned while ensuring these programs survive for the next generation.
The people of this district kept their end of the deal. Congress needs to keep theirs.
Healthcare
Good quality, affordable healthcare should be available for all. I will work to enact legislation to lower costs of healthcare while still maintaining quality and access for everybody.
No one in this district should lose everything because they got sick. No one should have to choose between seeing a doctor and paying their bills.
Here is a simple question I want answered: Why do Americans pay more for the same prescription drug than people in every other developed country? The same pill, made in the same factory, costs three or four times more here. That’s not a market — that’s a racket. I will fight to bring prescription drug costs in line with what the rest of the world pays.
I believe in giving people choices — the ability to pick a plan that fits their family’s needs without Washington mandating a one-size-fits-all solution. And I believe states should have more authority over their own insurance exchanges and Medicaid programs, because Washington doesn’t know what families in Daly City, San Francisco, or Redwood City need.
