I am running for Governor of California to secure and unite our state and states; to enhance international trade and grow our economy; to lower the tax burden with accountable oversight; to improve our infrastructure; to conserve our beautiful natural resources; to prevent corruption, crime, and insecurity; and to expand housing and affordability.
Let's restore California's dreams and hopes together with a vision independent of the control of either current Republican or Democratic political parties to demonstrate the importance of character for leadership and restore accountability and a healthy two-party system of democracy within our state and country.
As a U.S. diplomat for 23 years, I have worked to enhance national security, protect borders and allies, stop atrocities, fight human trafficking and violence against women and orphans, combat corruption, clear up trade bottlenecks, innovate historic diplomatic breakthroughs, defend religious freedoms, initiate groundbreaking laws, sanction authoritarian kleptocracies, and strengthen accountable democracies.
I thrive on empowering people to achieve their dreams with joy, hope, faith, and a call to love one another as the greatest power that alone overcomes the fear, anger, and algorithms designed to divide us. Working together, we can set the standards and visions the whole world follows.
I was born in San Diego, raised in Orange County, graduated from USC, arranged events for the Pacific Council from San Francisco to Mexico City, became an expert on Russian Affairs at Oxford, and worked along the way in restaurants, as a hotel evaluator and manager, school and SAT prep teacher, and backend banker before beginning my diplomatic career.
Californians are exhausted and demoralized by the past decade of hyper-partisan politics. I aim to help remedy that by standing up for State's rights against federal overreach, for all Constitutional rights, and for economic prosperity and hope to be restored.