Rodolfo is a first-generation immigrant to the United States. He graduated from UC Berkeley and Stanford with his Ph.D. He is a socialist, Green Party progressive candidate. He aims to remove his longtime Congressional Representative, who refuses to fight for his community and who has taken money from all the worst corporations - Chevron, GEO Group, Lockheed Martin, and Walmart.
It's time to terminate economic predation. It's time to promote the general welfare. It's time for guaranteed housing, education, jobs, food, and so much more. We need a bold new direction for East and Southeast Los Angeles, as well as for the human species more generally.
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are capable of pushing for the kind of change that we need. We must break the two-party system if we are to save ourselves and our posterity from the deadly effects of the corporate state.
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Show your support for this campaign by endorsing it and sharing why!
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Lee McKusick endorsed
“Read this http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ and then say to Rodolfo, "We have to get going on reducing atmospheric CO2 rapidly. In your next 2 years, please make reasonable changes happen.”
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Elijah Manley endorsed
“Rodolfo is doing amazing things by providing the community with a choice, and I ask everyone to donate and help him win the election!”
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Brian Setzler endorsed
“We need green progressive leadership in this working class district!”
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Anthony Krzywicki endorsed
“we need a real political change that Rodolfo can bring to Washington.”
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Justin Beth endorsed
“Time to send a message to Washington and it's time for candidates like Rodolfo, Kenneth Mejia, and Laura Wells to delver it! Go California Greens!”
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James W. Nickola endorsed
“I support Rodolfo because his platform is truly Progressive and because he understands how the monetary system actually works and knows that it’s completely possible to realize the full Progressive agenda. #MMT #JobGuarantee”
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Julio Flores endorsed
“I am very proud Dr. Cortes-Barragan is challenging establishment trash, because people are dying of cancer, birth defects, and teachers also with cancer in the 40th District. Opt out of the logical fallacy "false dilemma" (voting red or blue) they don't care about you! The health of inhabitants living in the 40th will not be compromised due to corruption. If everyone living in the 40th District gave .25cents we could get ride of the trash. Jesus would vote for Dr. Cortes-Barragan because he was anti-establishment, he have a message of peace, healing, and freedom. No more wars is a message of peace, a Green New Deal is a message of healing and $15 minimum wage, free college, a path to citizenship is a message of freedom! It's time to take on the establishment whether your red, blue or unsure. Dr. Cortes-Barragan is the best antidote to the parasite of the establishment”
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Sandra Hazley endorsed
“I endorse Rodolfo Cortez Barragan because the two party system is bankrupt and I know, as a Green, nobody is buying him. No corporate money”
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Erik Andersen endorsed
“Our planet is in crisis. We need someone like Rodolfo who is serious about helping the people they represent. Roybal has been a total failure and needs to go!”
April 29, 2018
Our opponent is vulnerable. Can you pitch in?
Friends,
Our establishment opponent feels very comfortable in her seat: She has less than 60k in the bank. She is not planning a serious campaign. We can win.
Can you pitch in with another contribution? Your dollars go very far in our low-turnout District. It's us vs. the failed establishment. No other challengers.
Thank you for your support.
Rodolfo
March 10, 2018
BIG, BIG NEWS!
BIG NEWS! Thanks to your support and the signature work of our volunteers, we have officially made it on the ballot!...And that’s not all!
BIGGER NEWS YET! We are the ONLY campaign that filed to run against the 13-term Democratic incumbent. That means we will automatically advance beyond California’s “top-two” primary. We will appear on the general election ballot in November.
OUR PATH FORWARD Mrs. Roybal-Allard, the incumbent, cannot stand on her record. In an 86% Latino District that wants Trump out, she has twice voted against Trump’s impeachment. Every voter who hears about that pledges to vote her out. Looking to her past, she could have done a lot to shut down the Exide battery plant that made our District a textbook example of environmental racism. Yet, she stood by for 20 years and and did nothing. Every voter who is made aware of her negligence pledges to vote her out.
Despite here seniority, Mrs. Roybal-Allard is actually one of the most vulnerable Members of Congress. She has never faced a serious challenge, much less a challenge from the left. Moreover, as the DNC and DCCC struggles to fundraise, she is contributing a lot of her own money to less established Democrats who are fighting off primary challenges. She is not prepared to fight back in her own District.
People here are drying from lack of access to housing, healthcare, food, and clean water. The community needs radical change. We only need around 5,000 votes to hear from us around three times. It’s a winnable race.
We got this! Thanks for your support.
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Show your support for this campaign by endorsing it and sharing why!
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Kai Blumberg endorsed
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Jason Rowland endorsed
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Stephen A. Verchinski endorsed
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Lee McKusick endorsed
“Read this http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ and then say to Rodolfo, "We have to get going on reducing atmospheric CO2 rapidly. In your next 2 years, please make reasonable changes happen.”
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Melissa Cushman Guevara endorsed
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Elijah Manley endorsed
“Rodolfo is doing amazing things by providing the community with a choice, and I ask everyone to donate and help him win the election!”
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Greg Jones endorsed
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Charles Keener endorsed
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Michael Stewart endorsed
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James P. Grinnell endorsed
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Justin Saegusa endorsed
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Rick Varner endorsed
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Brian Setzler endorsed
“We need green progressive leadership in this working class district!”
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joseph Dangelo endorsed
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Megan Buckingham endorsed
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Christian Bradley Hubbs endorsed
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Terrance Tovar endorsed
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Anthony Krzywicki endorsed
“we need a real political change that Rodolfo can bring to Washington.”
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Justin Beth endorsed
“Time to send a message to Washington and it's time for candidates like Rodolfo, Kenneth Mejia, and Laura Wells to delver it! Go California Greens!”
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James W. Nickola endorsed
“I support Rodolfo because his platform is truly Progressive and because he understands how the monetary system actually works and knows that it’s completely possible to realize the full Progressive agenda. #MMT #JobGuarantee”
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Julio Flores endorsed
“I am very proud Dr. Cortes-Barragan is challenging establishment trash, because people are dying of cancer, birth defects, and teachers also with cancer in the 40th District. Opt out of the logical fallacy "false dilemma" (voting red or blue) they don't care about you! The health of inhabitants living in the 40th will not be compromised due to corruption. If everyone living in the 40th District gave .25cents we could get ride of the trash. Jesus would vote for Dr. Cortes-Barragan because he was anti-establishment, he have a message of peace, healing, and freedom. No more wars is a message of peace, a Green New Deal is a message of healing and $15 minimum wage, free college, a path to citizenship is a message of freedom! It's time to take on the establishment whether your red, blue or unsure. Dr. Cortes-Barragan is the best antidote to the parasite of the establishment”
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Travis Christal endorsed
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Sandra Hazley endorsed
“I endorse Rodolfo Cortez Barragan because the two party system is bankrupt and I know, as a Green, nobody is buying him. No corporate money”
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Scott Nass, MD MPA FAAFP AAHIVS endorsed
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Nadia Nouri endorsed
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Erik Andersen endorsed
“Our planet is in crisis. We need someone like Rodolfo who is serious about helping the people they represent. Roybal has been a total failure and needs to go!”
