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Arjun Gustav Sodhani
Arjun Gustav Sodhani (Republican Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 19. He lost in the primary on March 5, 2024.
Sodhani completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Arjun Sodhani earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014. His career experience includes working as an operations manager. Sodhani has been affiliated with AI and SFYR.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2024
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 19
Catherine Stefani defeated David Lee in the general election for California State Assembly District 19 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Catherine Stefani (D)  | 60.5 | 118,928 |
 | David Lee (D) | 39.5 | 77,546 | |
| Total votes: 196,474 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 19
Catherine Stefani and David Lee defeated Nadia Flamenco and Arjun Gustav Sodhani in the primary for California State Assembly District 19 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Catherine Stefani (D) | 57.0 | 64,973 |
| ✔ | | David Lee (D) | 29.0 | 33,047 |
| Nadia Flamenco (R) | 7.3 | 8,337 | ||
 | Arjun Gustav Sodhani (R) | 6.7 | 7,632 | |
| Total votes: 113,989 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Arjun Gustav Sodhani completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sodhani's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My parents came here from their respective countries because America was advertised as the land of life, liberty, and opportunity to pursue happiness. I heard that my grandfather told my father, "Go to America, there is nothing for you to do [in homecountry]." Now I know many people saying the opposite, leaving California and the Union altogether for places with high quality of life. Take a look around. Is that the best we can do?
It appears that our nation is on brink of a tremendous unleashing of potential. Fear, uncertainty, doubt, and division appear in every direction. The only way to go from here is up. [stock traders add: "and to the right"]
So the question is, how?
Good question.
All I know is that we can build an economy where our people are fed, housed, productive, united, at peace with other nations, and at liberty to pursue their happiness, just like the Londoner wrote in a 1862 Times of London Editorial. See first key message.- American Economics is different from the de-facto imperial economics you were taught in school.
“If this mischievous financial policy, which has its’ origins in North America, shall be endured down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debt and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedence in the history of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.” --Loyalist, Times of London, 1862
Imperial economics: All hail the mighty dollar
American Economics: Promote the general Welfare - Our Government is organized as a public trust corporation whose job is very simple. Anyone can understand it very quickly. In fact, I've taught people what our Government is and its purpose in less than 5 minutes doing street interviews. By law, our Governments exist to: form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity. [US Constitution, Preamble] Anything else? Null and void. YOU are the judge.
- The more people we have on earth, the higher the rate of increase of the average quality of life will be. The creative capacity of humanity makes this inevitable.
12 Angry Men, 1957 Film
One core responsibility is sanity checking everything that passes your desk to make sure it's in alignment, and holding other members responsible for the same.
If you have prior experience, you have familiarity with the paperwork.
"It is the public policy of this state that public agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and the proceedings of public agencies be conducted openly so that the public may remain informed.
In enacting this article the Legislature finds and declares that it is the intent of the law that actions of state agencies be taken openly and that their deliberation be conducted openly.
The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate California State Assembly District 19 |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 19, 2024
