Jake Levine is running as a new generation of leadership: a clean energy leader and national security official, a nonprofit founder, and a new dad focused on lowering costs for working families, expanding affordable housing, protecting fire survivors, and standing up to corporate power.

Brad Sherman has been in office for 30 years and out of step with California’s Democratic primary voters. Primary voters need to see on the go and via mail that despite sitting on the committee tasked with regulating the financial industry, Sherman has taken more than $1.6 million from securities, banking, private equity, and payday lending interests, While sitting on the House Foreign Affairs committee, Sherman has taken $250,000 from defense contractors profiting from forever wars, and accepted another $250,000 from insurance companies– the same ones denying and delaying claims for survivors of last year’s fires. 

Starting in Week 4, voters, particularly women over 55, high-information voters and seniors, need to see on the go and on cable, hear on the go, and see in mail, that Brad Sherman has spent 30 years in Congress and passed only four bills, two of which were post office renamings, while doing little to modernize the district or move major priorities forward. 

Voters especially need to see on the go, on cable, and in the mail that the contrast is clear: Sherman has spent decades in office and voted for bills that cut support for children and families, healthcare, and education, while protecting military and security funding. Jake Levine is offering a forward-looking, pro-family, pro-affordability agenda that speaks to the needs of today’s Democratic voters.