Anthony Aguilar

Well, great question.

Fair question.

And, you know, this district covers all the way up to the North Carolina-Virginia border because of the gerrymandering last year to separate District 2.

It wraps around Raleigh and down south to where I live, where I have lived for the last 13 years where my

Children are raised where they go to school, where we live and where I retired.

So why?

Right.

Like, why would I do this to myself?

You know, after 25 years of serving in the United States Army and retiring, I was looking very much forward to a retired life, a quiet life.

And then.

I went to Gaza and the things that I saw and the things that I witnessed and what our government was complicit in forced me to take a hard look at what our government is doing, what our government is doing abroad and domestically.

And as we've seen the course that we're on,

Tough, tough questions need to be asked that aren't being answered.

So since I returned from Gaza from July until now, I was just in D.C.

last week talking to members of Congress.

And last week, by coincidence with Doctors Against Genocide, we talked to Brad Knott, who is the incumbent and the current holder of this district.

And in speaking to his staff.

His staff was not aware of any of the House resolution legislation for block the bombs, allowing aid into Gaza, the reference to the to what's happening in Gaza as a genocide.

Any of the War Powers Act votes, which we've seen go twice now in a dead tie broken by the vice president.

If his staff isn't aware of those things, it's because he doesn't care about those things.