Shaaf Patel
Shaaf Patel (Libertarian Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 41st Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the primary scheduled on June 2, 2026.[source]
Patel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Shaaf Patel was born in Orange, California. He graduated from Perris High School. He attended Riverside Community College and University of London, Kings College LLB. His career experience includes working as a politician and political commentator, small business owner, mechanic, driver, and in janitorial services.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: California's 41st Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The primary will occur on June 2, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Anuj Dixit (D)
- Tiffanie Tate (D)
- Tim Myers (D)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 41
The following candidates are running in the primary for U.S. House California District 41 on June 2, 2026.
Candidate | ||
 | Katherine Aleman (D) | |
 | Jason Byors (D) | |
 | Hector De La Torre (D) | |
 | David Karson (D) | |
| Gale Duane Lawton (D) | ||
 | Shaaf Patel (L)  | |
| Cody Wiebelhaus (R) | ||
 | Shonique Williams (D) | |
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Shaaf Patel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Patel's responses.
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- I am a America First Republican, with a never give up attitude, who has always been known as a great leader, problem solver, and quite outspoken. I am only here to represent the interests of My Constituents in District 41, My State, County, and Hometown, and My Country. I only pledge alligence to the flag of The United States of America, and will never accept any money for campaigns or otherwise from and FOREIGN INTEREST GROUPS. America First means America First. Immigration in the legal manner is very important. Taxes need to be applied across the board. As a small business, tge ratio of income to taxes should be all the way up. corporations that produce billionaires should be paying the same ratios of taxes.
- Military Strength is very important, and it's also important to take care of those who served so we have our freedom. Veterans have been undeserved for decades while we gave money by the billions to foreign nations for THEIR security. This is a huge dishonor to our vets, and no vet should ever be homeless. They deserve the best heath care, the best services, our veterans especially those who served in combat, should have everything they need to be well. mentally, physically, and financially. The billions spent outside the USA NEEDS TO BE REDIRECTED TO PROGRAMS AND GRANTS FOR VETS TO FLOURISH AND SUCCEED.
- Innovation and cutting edge technology is the key to staying the super power that we are. Education needs to be expanded, we need to build more MIT, STANFORD, WESTPOINT, type Universities, and invest in the next generation, who are from my experiance less motivated, have to many freedoms prior to earning them by graduating high school, which in my days was the minimum requirement to be a functioning member of society. Our Space program should have more technical schools available in order to push the capabilities of innovation.
my conservative views are from everything I have ever experianced. My trials and tribulations are quite unique and the major ones would easily have broken another
JROTC and my Awesome Instructors, Teachers who invested a little bit of time at the crucial moments, and those teachers or rather mentors who were critical of me, they had a huge part in it.
I cant even point it to my religious upbringing because I was encouraged to follow any religion so long as I had spiritual guidance.
After watching people live of social services, watching people work 40 hour weeks and watching people try to keep a business running and all ending up in the same spot at the end of the month, and all my previous experiances with work, my position on the importance of innovative trade schools was developed.
Problem Solving is the reason we have the legislature.
Bipartisanship and the current unwillingness to cooperate is not effective or efficient. it makes the process corrupted to its core.
Integrity, to have a good moral base and adhear to it unwavering.
Courage, to have the guts to stand up and and scream oh hell no. when something is fishy.
Judgement, Using your experiance, knowledge, and morals, to guide your decision.
Loyalty, to self and country.
Unselfishness, as a leader and politician, my personal gain is not what I am here for. Public service means just that. I will never be a rich man, I accepted that, because no matter how much money I make, I always give to those who are unfortunate, without expecting to receive anything in return.
TACT is something I have always struggled with, but its not that I can not hold information that is sensitive. I surely can when mandated. But when I am upset about my personal issues, its best to let it out so that I can wakeup happy and clear minded. in regards to outburst of my personal views. sensetive information needs to be kept sensitive ..
Enthusiasm, if you dont like your duties, then why are you in that career field? my dad use to say, you dont have to like your job, but you should love what you do.
to ensure that everyone rises together and not be exclusive in access to only the people who supported my candidacy.
PUTTING AMERICAN INTRESTS ABOVE MY OWN.
outside of the family business, I was a water saftey instructor at the perris pool, where I taught people to let go of fear and enjoy the joys of water activities.
chaiya chaiya from dil se
senators should have a 3 term limit, 4 if they were leading their committees 5 max
and really after 8 terms as a representative in congress, they should aspire to be a senator.
no person should spend more than 32 years as a lawmaker.
my only interaction with a rep, was when my EIDL LOAN was approved, then after the 2020 ejection, it was paused for funding, then overturned to a denial. during the reconsideration loop, I reached out to the rep for Perris where my dry cleaners was, mark takano, and ken calvert the nuevo rep.
ultimatly my business was not funded and after 32 years we were evicted by the greedy new corporate owners.
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 28, 2025
