- Occupation: Governing Board Member, Santa Ana Unified School District
- Biola University Trustee
- Orange County Youth Commission, President and Founder (Tutoring, Sports and Character Education for inner-city children)
- Appointed by President Bush to President's Commission on White House Fellows: Selected 12 top young adults to work with White House Cabinet Members
- Elementary School Teacher, Master's of Organizational Leadership, Biola
- First generation immigrant from Guatemala, Central America, and parents left Guatemala due to Communism when I was six years old
- Married 33 years, five children, one child with cerebral palsy
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Bold Leadership on Immigration: Secure our borders, Enforce our laws, Speed up legal immigration process
- Reform Education through local control and parental involvement
- Reduce the Tax Burden: lower taxes and reduce the size of government
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- CRA, California Republican Assembly
- OCYR, Orange County Young Republicans
- OC Vietnamese Republican Assembly, Congress of Republicans, Little Saigon
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- Illegal Immigration
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We must first secure our borders, then enforce our laws,
including employee sanctions. I oppose another amnesty and a guest worker program. We must streamline our immigration and citizenship process. It will take our three institutions: Government, Church and Family to restore order and solve our immigration crisis.
- Reform Education
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As an elected Santa Ana School Board Member I have succeeded in ending Bilingual Education, exposing the failure of whole language reading and fuzzy Math. Now with English instruction, a new phonics-based reading program, and a basic math emphasis, our test scores are going up. I also established a required United States Constitution Test for all eighth graders. As your congresswoman, I will work to protect local control, and advocate that our schools stay focused on academic achievement.
- Reducing the Tax Burden and Strengthening Families
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We must reduce the tax burden on our working families. Congress needs to find ways to decrease the size of government. I am an author of the Parental Notification Initiate. I will look at each bill that is presented to Congress and make sure it strengthens the family.
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