For the past 39 years, Anna has been a public official in service to the residents of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties. 

As a San Mateo County Supervisor for 10 years, Anna led the establishment of the Health Plan of San Mateo, took on the AIDS crisis to save lives, preserved thousands of acres of open space and protected the most vulnerable citizens.  

Anna was elected to Congress in what has been dubbed “The Year of the Woman.” She was the first Democrat and first woman in the history of the District to win her Silicon Valley Congressional District, then the 14th Congressional District (CD).

As a Member of Congress, Anna has been a health care pioneer, a champion of new medical research and groundbreaking cures, a human rights and consumer advocate and a staunch proponent of clean energy innovation and the environment. 

She cares deeply about her constituents and commutes home weekly to be with them … in person when safe and on her weekly Telephone Town Hall Meetings in every community. Last year she hosted a virtual Town Hall with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, with over 2,000 constituents participating. Anna looks forward to returning to in-person Town Hall Meetings once public gatherings are safe and our public health crisis is behind us.

Chair of the House Health Subcommittee.

Anna is the first woman in the history of the U.S. Congress to Chair the Health Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee. As Chair of this powerful committee, she has worked to end the COVID-19 pandemic and produced legislation to lower the price of prescription drugs, eliminate racial and social inequities in health care delivery and build on the success of the Affordable Care Act by adding 4 million enrollees to the plan.

Anna’s health care work has been and continues to be incredibly prescient, impactful and life-saving. 

Anna authored the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act “to improve the Nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response capabilities for emergencies, whether deliberate, accidental, or natural.” This Act established the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) which played a major role in helping private sector innovators rapidly develop and deploy lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines.

Anna’s fought for and secured historic investments in new medical research to fight the most aggressive, recalcitrant diseases, such as pancreatic, liver and ovarian cancer, and most recently amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In a November 4, 2021 hearing of the Health Subcommittee, she challenged, “Is there anyone who dares to vote no?” for the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies (ACT) for ALS. President Biden signed the bill into law on December 23, 2021, giving hope to the ALS community.

As Chair of the Health Subcommittee, Anna oversaw the largest overhaul of Medicare since its inception, including reforms to lower prescription drug costs by enabling Medicare to directly negotiate drug prices, just as the Veterans Administration has for years, and cap out-of-pocket costs on seniors’ prescription drugs.

The Senior Most Member of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. 

Anna is recognized as a national leader on technology policy and was named one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley by the Mercury News.  She’s championed Net Neutrality and is the author of the electronic signature bill that has streamlined digital transactions. 

Anna has written what academic experts call the strongest and most comprehensive privacy legislation in Congress to safeguard personal information and hold companies accountable for violating individual privacy. She’s also a leader in combating the spread of disinformation and extremism on social media platforms that amplify hatred and incite violence.

Consensus Builder and Proficient Legislator. 

Anna is proud to have authored over 50 bills and amendments that have been signed into law.

These laws reflect Anna’s drive to protect the most vulnerable Americans, foster innovation and economic growth, expand healthcare and address climate change. Her legislative efforts capitalize on her expertise in healthcare, telecommunications, technology and the environment and her ability to build consensus by working across the aisle on a bipartisan basis. The bipartisan U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress honored Anna in 2017 by awarding her the prestigious Statesmanship Award.

Anna is an undaunted legislator who never gives up on fighting for what’s right. She doggedly advocated her entire career for the U.S. to officially recognize the 1915 slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide. Finally, in 2019, she adroitly seized an opportunity to pass the House Resolution recognizing the genocide and succeeded, ending over 100 years of official silence by the U.S.

Anna’s voting record, bill sponsorship and campaign platform reflect her priorities and her work prepares her for the public policy challenges ahead. 

Endorsements and Awards.

Over the course of her legislative career, Anna has been repeatedly endorsed, rated A+ or 100% or a “Candidate of Distinction” by a wide range of organizations, including the Sierra Club; Peninsula Young Democrats; Planned Parenthood Action Fund; San Mateo County API Democrats; the Stonewall Democrats; the Conservation League of California; the Human Rights Campaign; the Alliance for Retired Americans; Mom’s Demand Action; and End Citizens United Action Fund.

She is also the recipient of a number of awards, including: the Innovator in Biotechnology Award and the Congressional Champion of Hope Award from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

Please see www.annaeshoo4congress.com for more information.

Personal Story.

Anna is a first generation American whose parents fled their homelands for freedom from religious and ethnic persecution, and for the promise of America. They instilled in Anna a deep love and respect for America, our Constitution, and our democratic ideals of equality and justice for all.

Anna’s family experience has had a tremendous impact on her social justice, human rights and immigration policy work and it guides her efforts to protect the vulnerable and underrepresented and level the playing field - whether they’re consumers, patients, children, seniors or racial minorities.

Keeping the American Dream real and accessible for each successive generation of Americans is a primary goal of my public service.  Expanding opportunity and making it available for everyone requires constant work, but it keeps faith with the vision of our Founding Fathers. 

Pursuing inclusion, fairness and equality in modern American isn’t always easy.  I work to ensure those standards are embedded in public policies every day.

 ☆ I am currently a Silicon Valley hi-tech executive, a mechanical engineer by education, and a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives (CA-16).
☆ I am currently serving my second term as a Saratoga City councilmember.
☆ I was elected with the most votes in my city’s election history.
☆ In the November 2020 election, we were humbled and honored to have received more votes than any other challenger in the last 30 years of this congressional district and we are honored to be running again - back for victory 2022.

I love a good principled fight for the people and I will never sell out!

As a hi-tech executive, I was transferred by IBM to Silicon Valley from Michigan and I absolutely love it here. My wife, a networking industry professional, and I are raising our two boys and found our American dream in Saratoga. We also discovered a deep joy in giving back, solving the problems of our community, and helping to better people's lives. That is why I am running for Congress. 

As a Mechanical Engineer, elected leader, and community activist, I was keenly interested in tackling tough challenges and delivering results. I reduced burglaries, defeated many San Jose Water Company rate hikes, challenged PG&E’s gutting of California’s solar program, pushed for the audit of HCD’s RHNA numbers, stopped a massive hotel in an environmentally sensitive zone, and stopped a road repair tax by favoring fiscal optimization measures.

I am NOT a Washington insider or career politician entrenched with lobbyists. I understand Silicon Valley's innovation economy as a hi-tech executive and will ensure our standing as the innovation capital of the world. I plan to address the tech exodus, with companies and our talent pool finding their way to greener pastures. Washington is inept, not only with tech, but also regarding challenges of today such as California wildfires, women’s reproductive rights, water infrastructure, housing, transportation, rising crime rates, and inflation.

My run for Congress is about bringing back integrity and a “getting-things-done” approach to public service. It is about addressing the challenges of today’s America:championing Medicare for All, legislating Roe,  and cleaning up Washington by rejecting special interest money and influence. I would be honored to have your vote in the primary election on June 7, 2022.

A Menlo Park native, Peter Ohtaki graduated from Woodside High School. He would then earn his Bachelor of Arts in Economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and his Master’s in Business Administration from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

In 2010, Peter was elected to the Menlo Park City Council and re-elected in 2014. In 2013 and 2018, he also served as Mayor. Following years of deficits, Peter led the effort to balance Menlo Park’s budget by addressing the city’s unfunded pension liability, saving the taxpayers $3.6 million in interest expense. Dubbed by his colleagues as the “number guy,” Peter brokered a compromise to balance the city’s budget, earning him a reputation as a bipartisan problem-solver.

Peter successfully attracted a start-up incubator and restaurateur downtown to create new opportunities for Menlo Park residents. He also convinced Facebook to create a community fund that benefits residents. To give cities more flexibility implementing zoning for housing, Peter partnered with State Assemblyman Rich Gordon to introduce legislation (AB1690) which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in Sacramento and was signed into law by Governor Brown.

Before serving on the Menlo Park City Council, Peter served on the Menlo Park Fire Protection District Board of Directors, inevitably serving as Board President. He facilitated an agreement between the City of Menlo Park and the Menlo Park Fire Protection District on emergency preparedness and operations, including updating the city’s emergency operations plan. Under his leadership, the District paid 78% of its $13 million pension obligation, saving the District millions in interest costs.

Peter is currently Vice President, Enterprise Incident Management, for a major bank. Previously, as Executive Director of the California Resiliency Alliance, a non-profit public-private partnership, he brought businesses and government together to improve disaster resiliency statewide. Peter partnered with Assemblyman Pedro Nava to pass AB2796, which extended Good Samaritan liability protection to companies and non-profits that assist in disaster response. Before the California Resiliency Alliance, Peter was the Chief Financial Officer and co-founder of a technology start-up that served the education and interactive media markets from 1994 to 2005.

In 2009, he was awarded the Business Recovery Managers Association Award for Excellence. In addition, for his exceptional efforts in support of emergency management and preparedness, Peter was recognized by the California Emergency Services Association.

When he is not working or serving the community, he enjoys spending time with his wife and their three kids.

Greg Lin Tanaka was born in Los Angeles to a Japanese-American father and a Chinese-American mother. Raised in a single parent household, he went on to attend the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley. Greg moved permanently to the Bay Area in 1993, settling down in Palo Alto’s College Terrace neighborhood in 2004. He is a father, an entrepreneur and devoted public servant, someone with the experience necessary for competent leadership and the outsider’s perspective central to innovative policy solutions. The pressing need for government and policies to catch up with technological advancements and a changing economy prompted Greg to run for Congress. His campaign is built on the belief that Silicon Valley and its residents deserve representation prepared for the challenges and opportunities of a new digital age. 

Councilmember Tanaka’s career encapsulates the enterprising spirit and commitment to community service and promoting the public good that makes Silicon Valley what it is today. Greg is a committed public servant with nearly fifteen years of experience in local government and politics in Palo Alto. He initially served in a range of roles in city government, including as chair of the Planning and Transportation Commission, before being elected to the Palo Alto City Council in 2016. As an elected council member, Greg has been a tireless advocate for business friendly and financially responsible policies. His practice of holding regular ‘office hours’ sessions where he listens to the concerns of constituents has gained recognition, and in both of his campaigns for public office, he was committed to transparency and incorporating the input of residents. When the pandemic struck and shuttered businesses and upended lives nationwide, Greg fought in the City Council for policies to revitalize the local economy and help get Palo Altans back on their feet. His work as a ‘Councilmember for everyone’ earned him a whopping 400 endorsements in his 2020 campaign for re-election, and he is dedicated to taking this approach to governance to Congress as a representative for Silicon Valley.

Prior to taking office on the City Council, Greg first cut his teeth as a design engineer before pivoting to the business side of the technology industry. For years, he took a leading role in a series of startups working with both hardware and software, making a name for himself in Silicon Valley during his time at Synopsys and Rambus, gaining indispensable experience in an industry that is rapidly redefining our economy and society. In 2012, he founded the business analytics firm Percolata with funding from Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. At Percolata, Greg pioneered the use of machine learning to help clients like Uniqlo and 7-Eleven make smarter marketing decisions and optimize their operations. Additionally, Greg founded Pika Group in 2020, a web3 startup that develops algorithms to help automate day trading. Throughout his time at the intersection of the tech and business worlds, Greg has developed a unique perspective on how to leverage technological innovations and the power of the internet to better the lives of Silicon Valley residents and everyday Americans. He would bring the instincts of an entrepreneur and the pragmatism of an experienced public servant to Capitol Hill, instead of the narrow-mindedness of political insiders. 

Seeing the world change at such a rapid pace during his time in both public service and the world of technology, Greg believes that it is time for Congress to get a reboot, and for Silicon Valley to have the legislator that it deserves. There are a lot of problems to tackle, especially with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges posed by emerging technologies and a digitizing world, but there are also countless opportunities that can be harnessed with the right policies and innovative spirit. Greg is running so that Silicon Valley residents can finally have the twenty-first century solutions that they need.

As an outsider, I bring 40+ years of working across many industries from finance to international seaport logistics and sales, including writing the Quarterly US Economic Report for a regional US bank. Unlike my peers who are contesting CD16, I have a STEM, Finance and Economics background. My innovative strategic thinking was instrumental to Malaysia's Westport growth from a $1 billion (1995) seaport infrastructure project to the 6th largest container port worldwide (2006). I expect similar outcomes as a Congressperson for California Congressional District 16.

It is very important to understand how to use data, but it is even more important to understand how data can be abused i.e., lying with statistics. In my opinion, climate alarmist are very polished at abusing data, primarily by not telling the whole story.

During the COVID lockdown, I reworked my credit risk and Commercial & Industrial lending experience into 2 monographs:

[1]    A Critique of Dodd-Frank: Forecasting Securitized Mortgage Credit & Default Risk, Scholar’s Press, 2021

[2]    Real World Data Modeling:  Applications in Statistics, Physics & Medicine, Scholar’s Press, 2021

I discovered that our Public Health Policies with regard to Infectious Disease Spread was based on the Reproduction R₀ model which I found to be highly misleading, based on erroneous statistical analyses and grossly exaggerated disastrous outcomes. Worse, it only forecasts hospitalizations, but says nothing about the disease spread. The correct model which I proposed should show probability of infections, recovery, and mortality. That is why I support the Great Barrington Declaration. We should have followed Sweden’s example, not China’s. Without lockdowns, Sweden had half the death rate the US had, and 350,000 Americans would still be alive today.

During this time, I invented a new bank product, Home Equity Line of Credit for Self-Insured Servicing (HELSIS). It can reduce home mortgage defaults by up to 70% without penalizing either the borrowers or the banks, but it needs Congress to make some small changes to the reverse mortgage regulations. I reached out to our politicians in Silicon Valley, but nobody was interested. Shocking! Therefore, I’m now running for Congress.

I even investigated Dodd-Frank’s Risk Retention regulation. It is a clumsy piece of legislation that is so ambiguous that it cannot be implemented or enforced. Our laws need to be market savvy not legislatively intense. Its not about showing how much Congress has accomplished after the fact. It is about preventing disasters and enforcing market disciple. Our record these past 100+ year is, Congress 0, market crash 7.

I’ve accomplished much more, but this is enough for now.

I was born in Malaysia, one year after it “independence” from the British Empire. In 1970 after the May 13^th, 1969, race riots between the Muslim Malays and the local Chinese, the Muslim Malay dominated government implemented what is today known as Identity Politics. That is, in 1970 I became a second-class citizen of the country of my birth.

These Muslim Malays gave themselves special privileges and called themselves “Bumiputra”, Prince of the Earth. To ensure this dominance both the police and military almost solely consists of Muslim Malays. At that time, it was labeled “affirmative action” with the support of American academics, but the structure of this “affirmative action” revealed its true self of Identity politics. Identity Politics requires that individuals get promotions and have access to job privileges because of the color of their skin and not by the quality of your mind, heart, and experience.

So, what happened? Malaysia went from one of the cleanest countries in the world to one of the most corrupt, in under a generation. That must be a world record.

The then Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib, was at the center on the largest financial scandal in the world. For that to happen, the entire political and public service machinery had been corrupted by Identity Politics. Is this what we want in the US?

I learnt that, for a nation and a people to succeed everyone must have equal rights and with these rights comes responsibilities. We must be fair to everyone, and not have the State mandate who can and cannot do what.  The State’s responsibility is to facilitate the economy through robust education, effective services and market savvy laws and regulations; to encourage free markets.

In the 1970s, at most 25 teenagers had 6 A’s at 8^th grade, today there are 25,000 A’s. So, has Malaysia become the foremost innovator in the sciences and the arts? No. What they did was to indiscriminately dish out A’s to kids of a select demographic. The Malaysian standardized examinations results are worthless, brains not necessary. Do we want this state of affairs in the US?

Correctly implemented Affirmative Action is different from Identity Politics (which is Marxism/Communism). Correct Affirmative Action starts at the beginning of the child-to-adult development process, not at the end of it. Identity Politics is when a select group of adults are given special advancement privileges because of the color of their skin, and not because of the quality of their hearts, minds, and experience.

Affirmative Action is about leveling the playing field at the beginning of the child-to-adult development process. While still children, all children should be given the same mentoring and nutritional requirements as those from more advantaged backgrounds. We don’t do that in California.

It is the State’s responsibility to facilitate the economy through robust education, effective services and market savvy laws and regulations. To encourage free markets. We don’t see this in California, with its third world roads, regular power black outs, filth, urine, drug menace and tax increases that are squandered. California is so third world, now.

Worse, our State & Local governments have failed our children by teaching Identity Politics (racial bias at the workplace), Critical Race Theory (racial hatred in schools), Wokism (justice based on ideology not the law) and Genderism (how to mess a child’s gender identity). That is, the State now teach that it is the state that determines our children’s lives, not our children themselves. At best, these are of no value to the future of an economically strong US or any other country for that matter, as third world Malaysia has proved.