Kristin Gaspar is Chairwoman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.  A small business owner, community leader, and mother, she knows first-hand the challenges facing our small businesses and the families who depend on them.

In 2002, Kristin and her husband grew a family healthcare practice, Gaspar Doctors of Physical Therapy, from a 700-square foot space to seven locations throughout North County San Diego.  As CFO, Kristin helped build the business to more than 140 employees treating nearly 7,000 patients.

As Kristin’s business grew, so did her family, and she felt it was time to play a more active role in her community.  She decided to run for the city council on a platform of fiscal responsibility and a return to basics.  She came in first place ahead of two Democratic incumbents and after two terms on the Council, became the first elected Mayor of Encinitas.  As mayor of a coastal Democratic city, she demonstrated how to listen, lead, and succeed with conservative principles.

In 2016, Kristin defeated incumbent Democratic Supervisor Dave Roberts in a seat Hillary Clinton carried by 20 percentage points.  The youngest woman ever elected to the Board, her victory marked the first defeat of an incumbent in 32 years.

As Chairwoman of the Board of Supervisors, Kristin has been a leader in addressing mental health, addiction, and homelessness issues, as well as investing in programs designed to help veterans and their families navigate the transition to civilian life.  She’s also been a local leader in the fight for a cure for dementia and Alzheimer’s diseases.

Kristin and Paul have three children; Carson, Payton, and Addie; and one dog, Frank. In her free-time Kristin coaches and is active in community organizations.  A native of San Diego, she graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

Craig A. Nordal has lived and worked in the 49th Congressional District for 29 years since 1989 when he moved his family to live in Encinitas, CA. He started his highly successful business in real estate valuation, consulting, sales & expert witness and has raised his family here.

Craig began serving the Republican Party when he was elected to be his HOA President and started leading his precinct as a Republican Party precinct captain for many years. He then founded the North Coast Republican Club where he served as President, Vice President & Treasurer. Soon after that he was asked to become a member of the San Diego County Republican Party Central Committee.

Craig brings a life long commitment to conservative principles and beliefs. As an Evangelical Christian he is a strong defender of religious liberty and will make issues of faith his highest priority as well as border security and immigration. Craig also strongly agrees with and supports the Tea Party Patriots. He supports and would join and seek to lead the Tea Party Caucus and the Freedom Caucus in Congress. Craig fully supports our President Donald J. Trump. 

"I decided the voters of the 49th Congressional District deserved to have a choice of a true social & economic conservative and someone with a proven record in business to bring common sense ideas and true traditional conservatism to this important congressional seat. I will lead and not follow, and I will stand to go on the offense to return common sense and the rule of law to our great country"!

For the last two decades, Mike has been involved in a variety of local, state and federal political campaigns and community organizations. Now, he wants to be your champion in Washington.

Mike was raised in South Orange County, where he attended public elementary and junior high schools. Mike spent his high school years in Los Angeles at Loyola High and then went to Stanford University, where he was honored to serve as student body president. After college, Mike served in the Coro Fellows Program and then attended Duke University School of Law. After law school, he served as Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Orange County, and has worked as an attorney focused on environmental and energy regulatory compliance and government affairs.

Mike is a passionate believer in clean energy and has over a decade of experience in the industry, helping to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable power generation and transportation options. Mike has served for several years on the board of the Center for Sustainable Energy, based in San Diego, and co-founded Sustain OC in Orange County. For his work in clean energy, Mike was named to the OC METRO 40 under 40.

On top of championing environmental policies, Mike will fight for Medicare for All, equal pay, affordable higher education, preventing gun violence, protecting Social Security, a woman’s right to choose, and a $15 federal minimum wage.

Mike lives in San Juan Capistrano with his wife, Chrissy, a graduate of the University of Arizona and Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and their two children, ages 5 and 4.

Mike believes that it’s more important than ever to hold Washington accountable, protect the truth, and put country over party. Mike believes we are living in unprecedented times that require accountability, transparency, and a free press.

Mike supports efforts at the state level – including in California – to require Trump to make his tax returns public or be kept off the 2020 ballot. Mike also believes that Trump must fully divest from his businesses and enter into a blind trust with an independent trustee. 

Mike will fight for fundamental campaign finance reform to reduce the corrupting influence of money in politics. Mike wants to explore all reform alternatives, including a Constitutional amendment, to curtail and reverse the damage done by the 2010 Citizens United and 2014 McCutcheon Supreme Court decisions.

I am a native of Southern California, and moved to La Jolla in 1968.  I come from a middle class family, and I recognized from an early age that education was my “vehicle” to a better life.  I excelled in the natural sciences, eventually receiving a combined MD and PhD degree in Biochemistry.  I have lived in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Northern California, so I have seen first hand the diversity in our nation.  I also lived my junior year of college in Sweden, learning to speak Swedish, and learning first hand about our European allies, and the disadvantages facing socialist states. I have traveled extensively in third world nations performing volunteer eye surgery in remote corners of the globe, and have a deep understanding of our standing in the world.  I speak fluent Spanish, which has been an asset to me professionally, and helped to broaden my world perspective.  I am also a visual artist.  My hobbies include surfing, scuba diving, travel, photography, motorcycle riding, and car racing.

My education, world experience, professional qualifications, and intellectual approach to politics make me uniquely qualified as an agent for change in Washington.  My ideas are innovative, refreshing, and principled, with clear long term goals of freedom, security, health, happiness, tolerance and peace.  Some might criticize me as an idealist, but idealism, principles, and a moral compass are exactly the recipe that is needed in Washington, today more than ever.   Our president has dictatorial tendencies and our individual liberties are in jeopardy with the NSA monitoring our phone calls and emails.  The two party system is mired in gridlock and the only clear pathway to compromise is a moderate, third party alternative that by definition “startles the aisle”.  Once in office, I will create compromise and incremental change using the wisdom of science, the discipline of medicine, and the creativity of art.  Donkeys and Elephants have Failed, It’s time for Dogs to Lead.

K9 PRINCIPLES:

It's encouraging to note that according to the Chinese calendar, 2018 is the year of the dog!

Politically, the United States finds itself in a period of unprecedented dysfunction. The Democratic and Republican parties are polarized to the point where legislative victories, like Obama-Care and the Tax Reform Act of 2017 pass through congress on strictly partisan votes, while the majority of items on the congressional agenda are mired in gridlock.  To disenfranchised moderates the solution is obvious: an alternative moderate political party. 

K9 is a political party, a way of life, and a guide to world peace consisting of 9 principles, all based upon the three attributes of dogs that make “man’s best friend” so special: unconditional love, simple needs, and readiness to defend.  Wouldn’t the world be a better place if our political leaders were guided by these attributes?  Wouldn't we be better people, and the world a safer place if all of us were guided by these attributes?

Adapted to national politics the K9 attributes become:     
                            Socially Progressive,
                            Fiscally Conservative, and
                            Militarily Prepared.

Adapted to  international relations the K9 attributes become:     
                             Altruistic
                             Sovereign, and
                             United  AND

adapted to public policy and our personal lives, the K9 attributes become: 
                            Loving
                            Lean, and
                            Strong.

With the country so evenly divided, even a few articulate K9 representatives could unleash political gridlock by commitment towards compromise and incremental change.  With a majority of K9s occupying the US Congress, K9 representatives will have the power and moral strength to implement the 28th Constitutional Amendment: the Doctrine for Elimination of Excessive Privilege and Strategic Hierarchy of Intelligent Term-limits (I'll leave it to you to work out the acronym).  This amendment will advance our great nation to a new era in politics with CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS,  and an ELIMINATION OF GERRYMANDERING.

K9 is a coherent, harmonious, philosophical approach to politics based upon 9 PRINCIPLES that lead us to “the six results” of health, happiness, tolerance, security, peace, and freedom.

Please help us put an end to the evil forces of tyranny and apathy that are threatening the constitutional fundamentals of this great Nation. Spread the word and share our K9USA.org website with like-minded moderates on social media. Run for a congressional seat in your US Congressional district as a K9.  Volunteer to support K9 candidates and recruit new K9 party members.  Tweet about the K9 Movement.  Contribute inspirational stories to "the paper".  In California, become a registered K9 at registertovote.ca.gov.*

My 2020 Vision Campaign is to elect a majority of K9s to the US Congress and occupy the White House with a K9 candidate by year 2020, with half of our new K9 representatives as women.

I am an ophthalmologist, a biochemist, small business owner and visual artist, and K9 is my vision for a better world!

Donkeys and elephants have failed.  It’s time for dogs to lead!

Robert Pendleton MD, PhD

* at the end of the form on registertovote.ca.gov, choose "other" from the party preference drop-down menu and type in "K9" to become a registered K9

Sara Jacobs has dedicated her career to fighting for a fairer, more equitable world and finding innovative solutions to some of the most complex problems facing the most vulnerable people -- at home and around the world. She’s running for Congress to bring a fresh approach to government, and close the opportunity gaps that exist in Southern California and across our nation. 

An experienced policy-maker, Sara has served in key policy positions at the U.S. State Department under the Obama Administration, UNICEF, and the United Nations. She was also proud to use her expertise to serve as a foreign policy advisor to Secretary Hillary Clinton during her 2016 campaign for president. 

At the State Department, Sara worked on U.S. policy towards conflict zones in East and West Africa, led an effort to re-think how the U.S. Government counters and prevents violent extremism, and helped spearhead President Obama’s efforts to improve governance in the security sector of our counterterrorism partners. As part of this work, she helped lead strategy and contingency planning aimed at countering Boko Haram in the midst of the kidnapping of Chibok schoolgirls. 

At the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Sara worked to bring stakeholders together to develop guidelines for promoting peaceful and credible elections. And at UNICEF, Sara developed a strategy that allows the organization to leverage large amounts of data to navigate development and humanitarian challenges, building a data-science team that still operates today and has been effective in assisting UNICEF’s response to the Ebola and Zika outbreaks. 

Sara strongly believes in harnessing the power of technology to solve big problems. That’s why Sara recently directed a non-profit organization called Project Connect, which is dedicated to closing the opportunity gap for students around the world. Sara and her team worked to map every school in the world, and eventually connect them all to the Internet — giving every child on the planet equal access to information and the tools they need to succeed. 

Born in Del Mar, Sara grew up in California’s 49th Congressional District. She is a product of Del Mar public schools, and a proud graduate of Torrey Pines High School. Sara also holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations and Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University. 

Today, Sara lives in Encinitas, right around the corner from her parents, grandparents, siblings, and many aunts and uncles.

Our economy is changing incredibly rapidly, yet an unfair system means that regular people are falling behind faster and faster, while the rich just keep getting richer. Either we’re going to see this opportunity gap get exponentially worse, or we’re going to figure out how to use the power of technology to close it. 

What’s just as concerning is that our leaders in office are totally unequipped to deal with that reality. Today, even in this district, families who consider themselves to be middle class are having a really tough time keeping up with the costs of housing and health care and college.  But instead of finding meaningful solutions to help, leaders like Donald Trump and Darrell Issa are enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else. It’s time for some fresh, new thinking in Washington – that’s why I’m running.

To me, the best part of Southern California is the people who live here - innovators who are developing cutting edge medical treatments, inventing new products, and starting businesses that change the way people live. Growing up in Del Mar, I saw firsthand what is possible if we look at problems in new ways and focus on coming up with fresh, creative solutions. 

Throughout my career, I’ve always tried to use the opportunity and perspective I was given to find places where I could have the most impact. My approach is to seek out the really tough problems, understand as much as I can about those problems from people with different perspectives, and bring the right groups of people together to fix them. I did that at the State Department under President Obama, in my work with the United Nations, and with my non-profit work to improve education around the world. And it’s what I plan to do in Congress.