Distrito 52 — Cámara de Representantes del los Estados Unidos

Scott Peters is a proven leader with a track record of working with everyone to achieve common sense solutions and get things done. Since becoming a member the U.S. House of Representatives in 2013, his priorities have been to fix a broken Congress, create high-quality jobs, keep America safe, keep our promises to our veterans, and make college more affordable for middle-class families. Since his time on the City Council, and as a Port Commissioner, Scott has developed a solid reputation as someone who is willing to reach across the aisle and achieve bipartisan solutions to tough problems.

Before being elected to Congress, Scott served as chair of the San Diego Unified Port District – a major economic engine that produces tens of thousands of high-skill, high-wage jobs for San Diegans. The Port manages the state tidelands in and around San Diego Bay, which produces around $3.3 billion in direct economic impact to the region and supports middle-class jobs for around 40,000 San Diegans.

Scott served at the Port after completing two terms on the San Diego City Council, where he was San Diego’s first City Council President, elected to the role three years in a row by his colleagues. While at the City, Scott pursued greater accountability and efficiency in government, with a results-oriented approach. He led the creation of a new council/mayor form of government with an independent budget review function; created an independent audit function; hired the City’s first independent budget analyst; completed over $2 billion in downtown redevelopment including a new major league ballpark that generated more than 19,000 jobs; delivered an 80% reduction in sewer spills and beach closure days; set new standards for energy and water conservation in new development; and completed major district infrastructure, including Highway 56.

Prior to entering public service, Scott had a 16-year legal career in private practice, specializing in environmental law. He worked as an associate at large law firms, as a Deputy County Counsel for the County of San Diego, and then had his own small law firm for a number of years. 

Scott has also worked extensively as a community leader to grow our economy, improve education, and protect the environment – including service as a member of the boards of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, CleanTECH San Diego, and the UCSD Chancellor’s Community Advisory Board, and as Chair of the Climate Initiative at The San Diego Foundation.

Scott earned his undergraduate degree from Duke University and worked as an economist for the United States Environmental Protection Agency before attending New York University School of Law. He and his wife of 33 years, Lynn, are 31-year residents of the 52nd District. They live in La Jolla, and have a grown daughter and son.

While so many in Washington seem interested only in political gamesmanship and blaming others for the problems we face, Scott has forged a different path. He has introduced multiple bills to make college more affordable, has become a nationally-recognized leader in the fight to reduce gun violence, has been a strong voice for our nation’s military, and has repeatedly stood up to attempts in Congress to take away a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions.

Ryan Cunningham was born in La Jolla, California and attended public school in La Jolla and Carmel Valley prior to graduating from Mira Mesa High School. His mother was a special education teacher in the San Diego Unified School District and his father a professor and men’s basketball coach at UCSD. In 2006, like so many, he fled California’s regressive agenda and relocated to San Antonio, Texas for the booming economy, low cost of living, and no state personal income tax. Ryan has served as a financial advisor and underwriter to municipalities throughout Texas and California, including many economically disadvantaged communities. His experience includes financing infrastructure projects for public-private partnerships, health care districts, school districts, cities, counties, utilities, and special districts; he has refinanced existing debt and lowered taxes. Mr. Cunningham has also served as a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative in Geneva, Switzerland in the fields of development and environmental finance: asset and liability management, portfolio decarbonization, green bonds, natural capital, energy efficiency, and responsible investing. Mr. Cunningham was a credit analyst for Latin American infrastructure and project finance transactions with an emphasis on cross-border transportation and energy projects in Peru, Argentina, and Mexico. He has worked in Mexico and across three different continents and is currently a public finance underwriter.

Mr. Cunningham holds an Associate of Arts from Palomar College in San Marcos, CA and a Bachelor of Science from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, PA; Mr. Cunningham was a member of both the men’s intercollegiate baseball and basketball teams at Palomar College and St. Vincent College. He earned a Master of Public Affairs with a concentration in public finance and trade, along with a Master of Arts in Caribbean and Latin American Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. Mr. Cunningham completed his graduate studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile while interning for the Chilean American Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Cunningham has a certificate in Climate and Renewable Energy from Frankfurt (Germany) School of Banking and Management.

Mr. Cunningham is an advanced Spanish and an intermediate French speaker and has traveled extensively. He is an avid backpacker and camper, enjoying our nation’s greatest national parks and wildernesses.

Fidelity to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and protecting our civil liberties is of paramount importance as they continue to be eroded.  The role of any federal government is to promote the welfare of its own citizens, not foreign nationals.  The sovereignty of the individual is the foundation of the American experience and government should be limited. Individuals should be empowered to make their own decisions.  This includes lower taxation and deciding how to spend their own money, raise their children, and purchase health insurance.  I trust the American people to know what is best for themselves and will work to expand liberty.