I'm Anthony Dang running for Congress CA-15 AMA
I'm Anthony Dang, running for Congress in CA-15. I grew up in Foster City and still live nearby in Belmont. My dad came to this country as a Vietnam War refugee with nothing, and my mom is permanently disabled and lives in assisted living. My brother Andrew was killed in Ramadi in 2004, and I enlisted in the Marines the day after he died, deployed to Iraq, and was wounded. After that I worked my way from community college to UCSD to a Harvard MPA, then spent years at the Pentagon as a management and program analyst doing oversight on major programs. When I left, I blew the whistle on fraud at a defense contractor, and the retaliation cost me my career, which More Perfect Union covered in their exposé on waste in the defense industry. I'm running because I've watched this system fail my family and working people across our district, and I'm doing it grassroots only with no corporate PACs and no super PACs. Happy to take whatever questions you've got.