 The American dream is not one dream it's a mosaic and that's the beauty and the strength especially in a state like California. We are one of the most diverse places on earth and that is our strength. Even though it has been 27 years since a California Republican has won a campaign for U.S. Senate, Duff Sunheim is not discouraged. The former California Republican Party Chairman says he is motivated by a desire to give everyone a voice in government especially college students such as ourselves. I do a lot of work in underserved communities. I've worked on education reform in East San Jose and I'm also a mediator for the federal courts and I'm a settlement judge for the state courts but I also spend a lot of time volunteering in underserved communities mediating disputes there as well and what I've seen in California is that we have an economic earthquake. We've seen the greatest accumulation of wealth and the history of civilization and at the same time we have 8.9 million Californians living in poverty. There are more people living in poverty in California today than there are people in 39 of the 50 states. Sunheim has five key issues he would like to focus on one of them being ease the squeeze. So what I want to do is to ease the squeeze that they're feeling. I'm seeing closets being ripped out and turned into bedrooms. I see whole families moving out of their apartments and moving into other people's garages and I just think there's something fundamentally wrong with what's going on in this state and in this country. So I want to help with stagnant wages get better jobs. You know the fastest growing path to the middle class in America today is not manufacturing or construction or small business. It's a government job so it's no longer what you know it's who you know and if you're a woman or a member of minority community and it's based on who you know rather than what you know that's a barrier and so I really want to improve the amount of jobs in the private sector better paying jobs. One so they're better able to provide for their families but two to provide opportunities in minority communities to be successful. Another key issue Sunheim places importance on is restoring a government of the people. We have the ability to talk with each other to work together so that's what I want to do. I want to shift power away from Washington and give it to the people not so that they can be left on their own but because I think together we can make a difference and so we need to have that accountability. We can't leave people on on their own. We need to develop a sense of we're all in this together and that's what this is all about for me. The American dream is not one dream it's a mosaic and that's the beauty and the strength especially in a state like California. We are one of the most diverse places on earth and that is our strength and we should return ourselves to a position of leadership and we're not going to have a position of leadership if we let all of the decisions be made in Washington DC. Even with the rigor of a statewide election Duff Sunheim is optimistic about the future of California helping other people achieve their dreams so whether I do it in the United States Senate or do it outside the Senate I'm still going to do the same thing but I think I can make more of a difference representing the people of California in the United States Senate and that's why I'm doing this. There needs to be a light Sean on the fact that in this university in this department you're not allowed to