Quick poll for Contra Costa parents: what state did your kids move to? Texas. Arizona. Idaho. Tennessee. They didn't stop loving it here. They did the math. Over $6 a gallon. A starter home that starts at a million. Mark DeSaulnier has been in office since 1991. The one bill in Congress titled Lower Energy Costs, he voted against. His one housing bill, he let die. Your kids left. He stayed. One of those should change on November 3.

Mark DeSaulnier said defaulting on our debt was "not an option." Then he voted against the one bill that prevented it. 314 to 117. Biden signed it without him. Not a principle. A press release.

The Laken Riley Act came to the House floor twice in January 2025. It says that if you are in this country illegally and you get arrested for theft, or for assaulting a police officer, you get detained until your case is heard. 48 Democrats voted yes the first time. 46 the second. It's the law of the land now. Mark DeSaulnier voted no. Both times. That wasn't a party-line vote. It was a common-sense vote, and nearly fifty members of his own party knew it. He didn't. Nearly 12 years in Congress and he still can't find the common-sense side of an easy one. Fire him on November 3.

Twice, in April 2023 and again in January 2025, Congress voted on one question: do girls' school sports stay for girls? Mark DeSaulnier voted no. Both times. In 2025 two Democrats crossed over to vote yes. He wasn't one of them. Then came the Parents Bill of Rights: schools post what they teach, and parents get to see it. It passed 213 to 208. He voted no on that too. I coach. I have three daughters. I don't need a study to tell me what every parent in the bleachers already knows. Money to classrooms instead of bureaucracies. Back to basics. Bring back shop class and the trades. And parents in charge, of the curriculum and of the locker room. He's had nearly 12 years to get the easy things right. Fire him on November 3.

He will tell you he brings money home. Here's the math. In eleven years the whole haul is about $62M for 760,000 people, and that comes to seven dollars per head a year. SEVEN dollars!! Seven of those years were $0 because earmarks were banned for everybody, which means the record he's running on started in 2022. All 435 members get 20 earmark request forms a year and his staff fills them out. That $1.97M for traffic lights was on his request list in May 2024, it died in 2025 with the rest of his $34.9M slate, and it came back in 2026. Two years and a victory lap for a stoplight. He announces money twice, once when he asks and once if it shows up. Castro Valley, 52,779 people he's asking for votes in November, is on his April request list for exactly $0. He isn't helping Contra Costa. He isn't helping Castro Valley. Stop voting for him and get him out of there. For him it's about the income. For me it's about the outcome.

In 2023 Washington D.C. cut its penalties for carjacking. Congress voted to block it. Joe Biden signed the block. Thirty-one House Democrats voted for it. My congressman voted to keep the cut. February 9, 2023. 250 to 173. To the left of Joe Biden on carjacking is a real place, and Mark DeSaulnier lives there. I'm running against him. November 3.

Washington is the only place where you can put in 35 years, produce a post office, and get a raise. Mark DeSaulnier has been in elected office for 35 years. Nearly 12 in Congress. More than 200 bills. Two public laws: a post office name and a park boundary. Not one of his bills has made it out of committee since January 2023. That is not a record. That is a career. That's not legislating. That's filing. In business, 12 years and a post office gets you fired. I'm running to clean up Congress, and I'm starting with my own congressman. 8-year term limits. Ban members of Congress from trading stocks. No budget, no pay. Close the revolving door. He needs to go. Every career politician needs to go, in both parties. For him it's about the income. For me it's about the outcome. So put a number on it for me: how many more years, and how many more post offices, before it's somebody else's turn?

Biden and 31 House Democrats voted to block a D.C. law that cut penalties for carjacking. Mark DeSaulnier voted to keep it. To the left of Biden on carjacking is a real place, and he lives there.

Washington writes every rule like you've got a legal department. The corner shop's legal department is the owner, at the kitchen table, Sunday night, after close. Who's writing rules for that desk?

A handful of people commit most of the crime. We know who they are. We arrest them, book them, and hand them back the same week. Who is that turnstile protecting?

A paycheck tops out at 37%. Capital gains top out at 20%. The tax code charges you a premium for working. Seventeen points. Who's defending that gap out loud?

Your retirement money sits in Treasury bonds earning about 3%. That's a loan to Washington, at a rate Washington likes. Every serious pension fund invests. Would you take 3% in your 401(k)?

That $1.97M for traffic lights was on his request list in May 2024. Two years and a victory lap for a stoplight. He announces money twice: once when he asks, once if it shows up.

84% of Americans want photo ID to vote. That's Gallup, not me. Same-day voting with ID: easy to vote in, hard to rig. The only place that's controversial has a dome on it. Which half bothers you?

$2 trillion in 11 months. Interest alone up $111 billion this year. In 2017 my congressman called $1.5 trillion "negligent and irresponsible." In 2021 he voted for $1.9 trillion in one bill. Deficits are only irresponsible in odd years.

Nobody overseas can fix your furnace in January. A welder can't be outsourced. Good pay, no student loan, and the paycheck starts years before a diploma would. Who told your kid that isn't a career?

Stocks are half of household wealth because the dollar is the other half and it keeps shrinking. If you own a house in Walnut Creek, Washington printed you a raise. If you rent one, you got the invoice. Which one are you?

Oakland diesel is $8.36 today. That's not a fuel price, it's a grocery price. Every tomato in Contra Costa rode here on that number. Sacramento's big fix this week was a new license plate design. Who in the Capitol has bought a tank of it lately?

My opponent filed bill number 204 on Thursday. Section 230, Big Tech, protecting kids. Fine idea. Here's the part the press release leaves out: not one of the 68 bills he has filed since January 2023 has made it out of committee. Not to the floor, not to a vote, nowhere. In eleven years, two of his bills became law, a post office and a park boundary. Seven weeks before an election, a bill with no hearing, no markup and no path is a lawn sign with a number on it. desaulnier.house.gov/media-c…