Rommell Represents The Future
A multifaceted millennial, a Nicaraguan American, Orange County-raised with Bay Area pride, educated exclusively within California’s public school system and at UC Berkeley and ready to lead on behalf of California to form a more perfect union. History can’t wait for me to rise through the ranks of a political system that needs re-engineering. Audacity doesn’t begin to describe what led me study how to better adapt to climate change and the sustainability issues facing our country.
My Master’s education focused on an idea for a platform to advance equity-based, structural economic change to accelerate our climate change transition to a net zero future. My platform is sustainability-focused, technology-enabled, and a wholistic approach to legislation. I was planning to be a father and worried about the California we were handing off to future generations. I was guided by an idea called the triple bottom line as a model to transform and protect our economy, beginning with our food system. It was A business idea at first, turned into a political platform because revamping a mass consumer US market and industry is the work of the government. Not of a social venture.
Before graduate school, I thought about running for the Senate seat that now is Senator Padilla's. I was inspired by the story of AOC's Congressional triumph. Her win changed what was electorally possible to change what is business as usual. People like me usually don’t run and I want my candidacy to change that. I have professionally cared about climate change as early as 2008; before it was an existential threat.
Cutting Edge Research Skills +
Consumer Marketing Savvy +
Emerging Business Tech Expertise +
Proven Principled Value Set +
A Truly Representative Millennial
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A Next
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A Data Science Wielding Tribune, Not A Slogan Toting Politician or CEO
Washington’s got 99 other Senators, and this tribune is your next one. We have enough Senators with an MBA or J.D.s from Harvard in the Senate. Let’s not send another one. California needs to send my data skills, wide-spanning knowledge, and business analysis experience to Washington. With all due respect, while professional politicians who are my competition have served in D.C., the perennial problems of wealth inequality, the gender-racial wage gap, climate change, and other sustainability issues have only mounted. Since 2002 I’ve paid attention to the by-line, consistently voted for Democrats, and until Snowe resigned in 2013, it was all rather typical. That was an early warning shot I couldn’t ignore. The Tea Party’s legislative obstinance culminated in a politic that elected Trump. This rightfully ricocheted into AOC’s and the Squad’s ascendance on the left, and most recently unfortunately our judiciary system overturned Roe. Those political developments weren’t the typical inertia of the pendulum swinging. While the temperature rose in D.C., as did our climate’s. I’d studied the un-sustainable political, social, and economic development of countries at Berkeley during my undergraduate experience. These were grumblings left over from a slow recovery after the 2008 recession. The resulting division has been holding our country back from realizing its full potential while contending with global warming. Some politicians assert to stand with science, I went back to school to study data science, climate science, econometrics, agricultural sustainability, and public policy. As it relates to climate change adaption, the gender-race income gap, and uniting our country, as one of my favorite Senator’s known to say, I’ve got a plan for that. And it requires six years and more crucially a Senator’s staffing budget. Complex, accurate, national, multi-layered, industry-changing, agro-economic, climate and data science solutions to our nation’s and the world’s sustainability issues aren’t cheap or fast paced two year ventures. Any big tech company will agree. This paragraph was not written by ChatGPT. ;)