Local Leadership•Former Mayor, Menlo Park Councilmember•San Mateo County Transportation Agency Advisory Committee •President, Menlo Park Fire District Board of Directors

National/Homeland Security•Co-Chair, National Infrastructure Protection Plan, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security•Executive Director, California Resiliency Alliance •Business Executives for National Security

Economics/Finance•Crisis management executive for major bank•Co-Founder/CFO of a tech startup•Harvard BA Economics, Stanford MBA Finance

• I’m running because I’m fed up that Congress is broken. It’s so polarized that each party is obsessed with making the other party look bad, rather than solve major issues facing our nation! We deserve better representation. Most other candidates are career politicians who tow their party line and dare not risk reaching across the aisle. Partisan gridlock rules, so major issues go unsolved. Most Americans are in the sensible middle yet have no voice in Congress. Voting for a career politician will only continue gridlock in Congress. I grew up here - Silicon Valley thrives because it reinvents itself, and we don’t let ideology prevent innovative solutions. I’ll work across the aisle on innovative solutions to issues facing our nation,
• Pick Peter if inflation has caused you to live paycheck to paycheck. Do I pay for groceries or gas to get to work? This isn't just about numbers; it's about real struggles. Inflation not only erodes our quality of life, but also had made it even harder for small businesses to survive. With an economics degree from Harvard, I know deficit spending over the last 15 years has caused inflation. Federal debt was $16 trillion before the pandemic and is now $35 Trillion – more than our annual GNP. Interest payments will exceed defense spending next year. It’s about analyzing which programs work, and cutting those that don’t. Congress doesn’t understand financial analysis! As a "numbers guy", I've balanced budgets and made tough decisions.
• Pick Peter to ensure our nation’s security, and to stand by Israel against Iran-backed terrorists. Pick Peter to secure our border as part of comprehensive immigration reform. For our national security, we must stand by Israel against Iran-backed terrorists. History shows this conflict is part of a much broader conflict between Iran, who funds and equips Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi terrorist armies, all determined to eliminate Israel. The U.S. must act as a deterrent to Iran and Hezbollah to prevent this war from escalating throughout the Middle East. Israel has a right to defend itself after the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7 – 50 years after Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. There’s no question that I

Pick Peter if inflation has caused you to live paycheck to paycheck.

Pick Peter if you’re worried about rising crime and fentanyl overdoses. Pick Peter if you support common sense gun laws.

Pick Peter to ensure our nation’s security, and to stand by Israel against Iran-backed terrorists. Pick Peter to secure our border as part of comprehensive immigration reform.

Pick Peter if you believe climate incentives are more powerful than mandates.

Pick Peter so Asians have a voice.

Peter was elected to the Menlo Park City Council in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. In 2013 and 2018, he additionally served as Mayor. After years of deficits, Peter helped balance Menlo Park's budget in 2011 by paying down an unfunded pension liability that was costing about $800k each year, saving taxpayers $3.6 million in interest expense. He proposed a compromise to balance the city's 2015-16 budget, earning the reputation as the "numbers guy" and a bi-partisan problem solver.

As Mayor in 2013, Peter led the city's first Housing Element since 1994, which enabled 1,134 housing units including the first apartments built in Menlo Park since the 1970s. He worked with downtown businesses to approve the El Camino Real/Downtown Specific Plan that is now building housing and office space on decade-long empty car dealership lots and transforming the Guild Theater into a music venue.

• Stuck in traffic? Peninsula/Valley traffic mitigation? Instead of using the state's $20 billion budget surplus to fund much-needed transportation infrastructure, Sacramento leadership raised your gas tax (SB1), tolls (RM2), and sales taxes in both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. And Sacramento continues to spend $64 billion for high-speed rail to Bakersfield when most people want to get to work and drop off their kids at soccer practice easier..
• Sacramento is eroding our local control. SB50 and bills like it will override local zoning to impose 5-story apartments that will dramatically change the character of our communities. State mandates for high-density housing will require our schools to add classrooms, but Sacramento has yet to provide funding for school construction, not to mention additional teachers.
• Sacramento's experiment with "re-alignment" by releasing and transferring prisoners to counties has resulted in increasing burglaries and thefts, burdening police, threatening our safety, and tarnishing our quality of life on the Peninsula.

Local control - I believe our cities and counties have the best engagement with residents and are better suited than the state to solve problems like housing, homelessness, and crime.