These 3 Member of Congress have extraordinary credentials (see below), and in 2018, toppled long-standing Republican incumbents in Republican districts.

See you on the Paramount lot.

In 2018, we not only took back the House.  We sent a phenomenally talented freshman class to Congress – people from all parts of the country with extraordinary talent, credentials, experience, clear vision, integrity, brains, and the ability to communicate and connect with their constituents.

In March, Billy Ray arranged for those of us in Los Angeles to meet some of these extraordinary new Representatives that sent Republicans packing in formerly solid Republican territory:

For those of us who were lucky enough to attend the panel in March, it  was exceptional to hear their views as Democrats in states where people view the country’s challenges differently than we do in LA, how they were able to connect with their constituents, and why their constituents chose the vision and values shared by Democrats over the ones that the Republicans in power have been offering.  What we learned is that a lot people share our core Democratic values and vision of a better America, and that what people tend to agree on is concrete solutions to concrete problems.  We also witnessed the extraordinary abilities of these news members of Congress.

*Billy Ray is a screenwriter, director, and Democratic Activist, perhaps best known for co-writing the screenplay to the 2012 blockbuster The Hunger Games, and his Academy Award nominated screenplay for Captain Phillips.

* Kim Schrier was born and raised in LA, and earned a bachelor’s degree from UC – Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in astrophysics. She then attended  UC – Davis School Medical School, where she earned her Doctor of Medicine. She completed her residency at the Stanford University, and worked as a pediatrician in Ashland, Oregon, for one year before joining Virginia Mason Medical Center in Issaquah, Washington, in 2001.

* Elissa Blair Slotkin (born July 10, 1976) is the US Rep for Michigan’s 8th District, which covers the capital of Lansing and the northern suburbs of Detroit.  She previously served as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (2015 – 2017) and Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2013-2014).  Prior to that, she worked for the Director of National Intelligence, and held positions at the CIA and the National Security Council.    Slotkin was born in New York City in 1976.   She spent her early life on a farm in Holly, roughly halfway between Flint and Detroit. She received a B.A. from Cornell University (1998) and an M.I.A. from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs(2003).  In 2001, she completed a course in the Arabic language at The American University in Cairo.  After leaving the Defense Department in January 2017, Slotkin moved back to her family’s farm in Holly, where she owned and operated Pinpoint Consulting.