Friend—Tomorrow will mark exactly three months until the primary election for this open seat.

As the most progressive major candidate in this race, who earned over 60,000 votes in the 2022 runoff, I am prepared to finish the job and win this seat for the working class.

But plenty of barriers to entry stand in the way for working-class candidates like myself.

LA County charges $11,800 to post a candidate statement in the sample ballot that goes out to all voters. First question: why shouldn’t every candidate who qualifies for the ballot get to put up a statement? Second: why should letting voters know what you stand for be so expensive?

To post a statement in both English and Spanish, it costs $23,600. They don’t even give you the option of Spanish only, or any other language for that matter! What about our thousands of Armenian speaking voters? Other languages? It’s giving disenfranchisement—for voters and grassroots candidates alike.

I’m not going to put a statement in the sample ballot unless we can reach voters in both English and Spanish, as I have a lot of Spanish speaking neighbors.

I want to thank everyone that pitched in before our end-of-month deadline last week. Just $1 from each of you is all it takes for us to build a winning campaign—if you haven’t donated $1 yet, please do so now!

Southern California needs a progressive champion in Congress—someone who will join AOC, Cori Bush, and Rashida Tlaib in putting people over profits and standing up for principled human rights and dignity.

Almost every representative from LA County takes corporate money, and every other major candidate in this race (besides myself) has been funded at some point by corporate PACs, charter school interest groups, 

Let’s win this seat for working class people. The response to our voter outreach has been strong thus far, and with your help, I’m confident we can get enough votes to advance through the top-two primary in just over three months.

In solidarity,

Maebe