Eugene Vindman is our congressional candidate

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Kamala Harris spent:

· 14 years as a county prosecutor 

· 8 years as Attorney General of California 

· 2 years as a U.S. Senator

· 3.5 years as Vice President

It is hard to imagine a more qualified presidential candidate!

A daughter of immigrant parents (her mother is Indian and her father Jamaican) Harris attended civil rights marches in a stroller with her parents. Under her parents' influence, she grew up to fight for and protect people’s rights. A graduate of Howard University (an historically Black college) she earned her law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law and started her career with becoming a

prosecuting attorney.

She’s been elected to office as California’s Attorney General, as U.S. Senator, and Vice President of the United States. Now, she is running for President of the United States to continue protecting Americans’ freedoms, delivering justice, and expanding opportunity for all Americans.

As a prosecutor and Attorney General Harris went after child sex offenders, big banks, fraudulent for-profit colleges, transnational gangs and drug dealers – and much more.

In the U.S. Senate, she led on legislation to raise wages and bring down costs for American families — on housing, health care, child care, college, and more. Serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Select Committee On Intelligence, and Committee On Budget, she fought for critical causes like criminal justice reform, climate action, infrastructure investments, and election security. She also grilled Donald Trump’s nominees, including Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Cabinet officials, including then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to get answers for the American people.

As vice president, Harris is a trusted partner to President Joe Biden, working to take on the powerful and make change for the people — from standing up against extremists to defending reproductive freedom, to taking on Big Pharma and bring down prescription drug costs and cap the price of insulin at $35 a month for seniors. Vice President Harris has proudly represented the United States on the global stage in meetings with over 150 world leaders and bolstered vital alliances against tyranny abroad — and she is just as committed to stopping would-be authoritarians and dictators right here at home.

The Biden-Harris administration has achieved a historic record of accomplishment, including: 

· bringing our economy back from the brink of disaster 

· creating nearly 16 million new jobs; 

· investing over $1 trillion in infrastructure projects like repairing roads and bridges, removing every lead pipe in America, improving public transit, and expanding access to high-speed internet; 

· strengthening the Affordable Care Act and lowering health insurance premiums to save millions of Americans an average of $800 per year; 

· expanding health care for veterans exposed to toxins; 

· enacting the first meaningful gun safety reform in decades

· bringing violent crime down to a near 50-year low; 

· passing the largest-ever investment in tackling the climate crisis;

· and appointing the first Black woman to the United States Supreme Court.

In 2013, Harris's best friend set her up on a blind date with Douglas Emhoff. The next year, they were married. Their large blended family includes Doug’s children, Ella and Cole, who affectionately call Harris “Momala”.

Throughout her life, Kamala Harris has broken barriers, and she’s now the first woman, first Black American, and first South Asian American to serve as vice president and run for president.

Tim Walz is serving in his 2nd term as governor of Minnesota. He's a lifelong Midwesterner, six-term U.S. Congressman, retired National     Guard Sergeant Major, and former football coach, who grew up on his     family's farm. Walz fights and delivers for working families like the one he grew up in.

· He's a former high school teacher (20 years) and football     coach who took his team to the state championship for the first time in the school's history.

· Walz is chair of the Democratic Governor's Association.

· As governor, he has done more to help middle-class families     get ahead than any other statewide leader in recent memory. He signed the largest tax cut in state history. And, he signed paid leave into law so that people can care for sick family without losing their jobs. 

· Governor Walz has stood up for our fundamental freedoms:     making Minnesota the first state to pass a law codifying abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe.  

· Walz was instrumental in making Minnesota a safe haven     for reproductive freedom in the Midwest. In April 2023, Gov. Walz signed a bill into law that protects people who seek or provide abortions in Minnesota. He also signed a bill that protects people who seek or provide gender-affirming health care. 

· The day after Roe v. Wade was overturned, he and his Lt.     Gov. issued an executive order that allows their administration to use all legal discretion to refuse to extradite people charged under other states’ laws that criminalize providing, seeking, or obtaining an abortion.  

· Walz knows that safe communities means more cops on     the street for accountable community policing. He funded Minnesota police departments to help hire more cops and invest in body cameras. And, he banned chokeholds to build trust between officers and communities. 

· Walz is a gun owner, avid pheasant hunter, and supporter of     the Second Amendment - and he, like millions of gun owners, believes that Congress must do more to tackle gun violence in our communities. As governor, he established red flag laws and universal background checks for gun purchases. 

· Walz won his first congressional race in a Republican district     of Minnesota by understanding and pledging to represent the needs of  farmers and rural America. 

· The son of an Army veteran, in Congress Walz was the ranking member on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, where he passed legislation to help stem veterans’ suicides.  

· He served six terms as congressman to Minnesota’s First Congressional District - a conservative-leaning district - where he was the second Democrat elected since 1890. 

· Walz is the highest ranking enlisted soldier ever to serve     in the U.S. Congress.

· Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard at age 17, and     retired 24 years later as Command Sergeant Major. He served overseas with his battalion in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and he went to college on the G.I. Bill.

· Governor and Mrs. Walz have two children, Hope and Gus. They struggled with fertility  challenges and had their daughter, Hope, through reproductive health care like IVF - further cementing Walz's commitment to ensuring all Americans have access to this care.