Jake Levine
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These folks coming up now have no models for success.
And that is the fundamental reason why I'm running.
We need a refresh.
We need dynamic leaders with new ideas and who are capable and have a track record of getting things done.
Well, obviously Trump is totally out of touch with what people actually are going through.
But the sad truth is that so are a lot of Democrats.
So are a lot of people who have held onto office decade after decade and have not delivered.
When Brad Sherman was first elected to Congress, you could rent a one bedroom apartment in our district for $700.
today it's twenty eight hundred dollars so you know we're putting a renter's tax credit um on the agenda as part of our core housing agenda we're also fighting for a national housing development bank to help create the supply of new housing that we desperately need not just here in la but across the state to bring down prices we're going to support first-time home buyers with mortgage assistance and young people whether they're dreaming of buying a home
or whether they're dreaming of having a family and they want support on childcare and education, insurance, they deserve leaders who are actually in touch with those needs.
So that's at the top of our agenda and I hear that
knocking doors.
Folks even still in their 30s and 40s paying off $1,000, $2,000 a month of student debt.
People who are dreaming of buying a home but just can't do it, they're still living at home.
People who don't feel safe in their communities, whether it's from fire or from crime, and they've had
a government that has said to them, well, there's not that much that we can do.
And now you've got the ultimate contrast with a president that has taken us into yet another forever war with no clear objectives, no set of strategic goals, no transparency as to what's happening, never making the case to the American people, and spending a billion dollars a day asking for $200 billion more to finance this when
we actually need a whole host of other things on the home front.
We gotta bring prices down and we gotta support the things that people need.
And I will say,