U.S Congressional Special Election,

US Representative, District 18

A U.S. Representative is elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives where they help create federal laws that affect the entire country. They represent their district by listening to the concerns of people in their community and speaking on their behalf in Congress. A U.S. Representative votes on national issues like health care, the economy, and national security. They also work on the federal budget to decide how tax dollars are spent. Representatives serve on committees that focus on different areas like education or foreign policy. They are elected for two-year terms and there is no limit to the number of terms they can serve.

Candidates

I grew up in Texas and Nigeria before attending Rice University, and then spent decades solving problems in finance, energy & healthcare. Many elected officials rely on a think tank for guidance on policy (or listen to lobbyists), but I have extensive understanding of many major industries because the technology solutions I built for decades required me to dive deep into each one. I have joined or co-founded several innovative startups, and due to my entrepreneurial experience, I was recruited to Anadarko’s innovation group to manage a group of teams building next-generation solutions dreamed up by their top scientists and engineers. I am not a career politician and will work with anyone necessary to deliver real results for the district.

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Costs of living are high, and chaotic decisions are making it worse. American textbooks teach how tariffs are a blunt tool that fails. We need sensible strategies to lower costs. Even worse, the middle class today has fewer resources than it did decades ago, and this is due to misguided economic policies that have benefited the wealthy but no one else. I will work to correct those. Another huge problem for the 18th district consists of the cruel and erratic cuts to healthcare, food assistance and emergency funding, and I’ll push to restore those. If the current administration really wants to save money, it should preserve humanitarian aid and instead go after corrupt handouts to big business in federal contracts, but it wants to keep those.

I met with the American Small Business League and discussed our common goals. DontCheatWomen.com is one of their projects. 98% of American businesses are small businesses but due to corruption, much federal assistance intended for small business is going to big businesses instead, so I will fight that and increase investment in small businesses which will result in greater prosperity for my district. Recent jobs reports have been terrible. Even the most successful Houston energy companies are laying off thousands of workers. Companies cannot hire if their costs are going up and their profits are going down, and I will work to reverse erroneous economic policies. I’ll also alleviate hiring risk by funding training for 21st century skills.