KEY POINTS:

⦿ Rishi’s congressional run is about Ethics in Politics, and he’ will always take action to back up his words

⦿ San Mateo County Sheriff dispatched a squad of deputies to Indiana over a friend’s business dispute, wasted taxpayer dollars and caused a media furor

⦿ Rishi has always called out elected officials with ethics problems, whether the recent case of the Valley Water Board (and Measure A) or Anna Eshoo’s pharma money and her misleading claims regarding her legislative record.

⦿ This is a contrast between Anna Eshoo and Rishi Kumar, two Democrats but not quite the same. There are no Republicans on your November ballot.

Truth can be stranger than fiction, and the tale of the San Mateo County Sheriff having dispatched a squad of local deputies more than 2000 miles away to browbeat a builder of replica Batmobiles in Indiana (allegedly on behalf of a friend in Atherton) seemed like something out of a cartoon. Or was it just San Mateo County politics as usual?

Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos had just lost to challenger Captain Christina Corpus in the June primary election, but as a lame duck, Sheriff Bolanos committed a serious violation of ethical principles.
= Allegedly doing a favor for a friend, Sheriff Bolanos misspent taxpayer dollars to crowbar a minor business dispute into criminal court 2000 miles away.
- It is time for Sheriff Bolanos to resign and help the county put this embarrassment behind.
- This does not pass the sniff test and is just blatant misuse of public office for a private business dispute. This is not ethical.
- Rishi did speak with the defendant - Mark Racop and he seems to be a honest, hard working man who happens to also be a minister. Mark loves batman since he was 2 years old and he should not have to go through this stress for a simple business dispute.

Rishi Kumar has made it a top priority to scrub our government clean of corruption no matter the party affiliation or allies of those in question. The Bolanos Batmobile scandal exceeds the limits of what we as a community can permit. This is an outrageous example of petty corruption in our district. Rishi has proved his willingness to stand against unsavory practices and corrupt politicians, opposing Santa Clara Valley Water District Measure A and calling for the resignation of four of its board members after they disingenuously spent $3.2M of taxpayer dollars to extend their eligibility to four consecutive terms.

Rishi’s anti-corruption stance contrasts sharply with incumbent Anna Eshoo’s history of selling out to Big Pharma. She is the U.S. Congress’s largest recipient of money from the pharmaceutical industry, and she has failed to take action on healthcare reform that might cut into Big Pharma’s profits and in fact proposes legislation that would protect Pharma’s profits. As the chair of the House Health Subcommittee, she has never held a hearing or pushed for Pharma’s accountability on the million opioid related deaths since 1999.

It gets worse: Eshoo brazenly points to bills of other congressional members, or bills that were never signed into law, while claiming credit for 45 bills during her 30 years in office. The reality is that only four bills (all trivial) were actually sponsored by her that turned into law.

Rishi fights for your interests, not special interests, and will always reject their campaign money. He will only accept money from people like you, and this pledge will never be broken.

As your Congressional Representative, Rishi will bring real change,

For your interests, not special interests, and against the selfish practices of corrupt politicians - never turning a blind eye to corruption.

The original 1966 Adam West Batmobile on the set of the "Batman" TV show

Rishi Kumar for Congress

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