Team,
I’d like to tell you about my mom, Cynthia.
My mom – like my wife, Mia – doesn’t just inspire me on Mother’s Day. She’s one of the reasons why I got involved in public service, and why I have fought each and every day to ensure – as my parents worked to do – that our children can have more opportunities than our parents did.
She immigrated from the Philippines in the 1960s after traveling by ship for three weeks. In the early 1970s, my mom was one of the many activists working closely with Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Philip Vera Cruz to organize Latino and Filipino farmworkers.
My parents believed that serving people is our highest calling – and that’s something they instilled in us from a very early age. My mother taught me that one of the most important things I could do in life is to never stop fighting for justice, and to love and serve my community.
I have worked to do exactly that. I’m grateful each day for the lessons I learned from my mother, and for the opportunity to live out the values she taught me in my role as Attorney General. I’m running now for re-election, and I’m asking for your support in continuing to fight these fights – if you can, please, chip in $5 right now.
Thank you,
Rob Bonta
California Attorney General
