Will Rollins
Will Rollins (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 41st Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024. He advanced from the primary on March 5, 2024.
Biography
Will Rollins was born in Torrance, California. Rollins earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 2007 and a juris doctor from Columbia Law School in 2012. His career experience includes working as an assistant U.S. attorney.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: California's 41st Congressional District election, 2024
California's 41st Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 41
Incumbent Ken Calvert and Will Rollins are running in the general election for U.S. House California District 41 on November 5, 2024.
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 | Ken Calvert (R) | |
 | Will Rollins (D) | |
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 41
Incumbent Ken Calvert and Will Rollins defeated Anna Nevenic in the primary for U.S. House California District 41 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ken Calvert (R) | 53.0 | 85,959 |
| ✔ | | Will Rollins (D) | 38.4 | 62,245 |
 | Anna Nevenic (D) | 8.6 | 13,862 | |
| Total votes: 162,066 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Tim Sheridan (D)
- Brian Hawkins (D)
- Kyle Penna (Independent)
2022
See also: California's 41st Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 41
Incumbent Ken Calvert defeated Will Rollins in the general election for U.S. House California District 41 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ken Calvert (R) | 52.3 | 123,869 |
| Will Rollins (D) | 47.7 | 112,769 | |
| Total votes: 236,638 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 41
Incumbent Ken Calvert and Will Rollins defeated Shrina Kurani, John Michael Lucio, and Anna Nevenic in the primary for U.S. House California District 41 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ken Calvert (R) | 48.2 | 72,700 |
| ✔ | | Will Rollins (D) | 30.4 | 45,923 |
 | Shrina Kurani (D) | 15.6 | 23,483 | |
 | John Michael Lucio (R) | 4.6 | 6,880 | |
| Anna Nevenic (Independent) | 1.2 | 1,862 | |
| Total votes: 150,848 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Brandon Mosely (D)
- Melissa Melendez (R)
Campaign themes
2024
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Campaign website
Rollins’s campaign website stated the following:
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I BECAME A NATIONAL SECURITY AND TERRORISM PROSECUTOR BECAUSE OF 9-11. I WANTED TO HELP KEEP AMERICA SAFE. PUBLIC SERVICE HAS BEEN MY CALLING, AND WHEN I GO TO WASHINGTON, MY CONSTITUENTS WILL BE MY #1 PRIORITY. I have been on the front lines in the fight against extremism, helping to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th and QAnon conspiracy theorists. Now, I’m running for Congress to root out the extremism in our politics and help get our government back towards delivering results to help working families, not selling them out to drive clicks and campaign cash. Americans need to start working together to tackle the big issues of our generation: including improving access to affordable health care, protecting women’s reproductive rights, bringing down costs for hard working Californians, protecting our planet and rooting out corruption in Washington. Check out my policy positions below on how we’re going to move past the extremism and take on these challenges to move our communities forward. FIGHTING FOR SENIORS My opponent Ken Calvert praised a plan to privatize Social Security and voted to raise the retirement age, which would cut benefits for seniors. He voted to gut Medicare by turning it into a voucher-like program that could cost seniors more out of pocket. He has repeatedly voted against allowing Medicare to negotiate with the drug companies to lower drug costs for seniors and he voted against capping insulin costs at $35 per month for seniors. I will prioritize legislation that supports seniors in Riverside County.
PROTECTING ABORTION RIGHTS That horrific Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates for the far right to pass whatever measures they can to take away the right to an abortion. We didn’t get here by accident. This was a coordinated, well-funded, decades-long effort by anti-abortion politicians. My opponent Ken Calvert has been part of this attack for 30 years: he supported the court’s overturn of Roe, believes rapists should be able to sue doctors who provide abortions to victims of incest, and voted against bipartisan legislation to make it illegal to barricade abortion clinics. This attack on reproductive rights will not end with the Supreme Court’s decision. We must work together to protect everyone’s freedom to control their own bodies:
FUNDING FOR TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE Our communities deserve a fair share of federal support to fully fund the transportation and water infrastructure projects we need for efficient travel, business growth, and clean and reliable water. Unlike Ken Calvert, I would have proudly supported the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to bring critical investments home to California. Fortunately, that bill passed into law supported by both Republicans and Democrats and is already bringing valuable funding to our District, such as:
This legislation should be the start, not the end, of our investments in our infrastructure. I’ll continue to push for investments that will improve our economy, help businesses grow, and bolster our quality of life here in Riverside County. PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY: ACCOUNTABILITY FOR DISINFORMATION
Just like any other business, tech companies should not have blanket immunity when their own software amplifies violence, lies, threats, and foreign disinformation that cause economic and physical harm to the American people. We should also reform and update regulations in order to break down information bubbles and propaganda so that actual facts – instead of brainwashing – reach the public. That means requiring big tech, cable news, and talk radio to provide transparency in advertising, and to create a framework – a modern fairness doctrine – that will incentivize the presentation of multiple views on issues of public importance. America’s enemies seek to divide us. After January 6, Russia, Iran, and China reportedly tried to capitalize on American divisions by exploiting U.S. social media platforms and spreading hate. By updating our disclosure rules and strengthening our cyber defenses against foreign adversaries that try to exploit our own technology, we can strengthen our democracy. America must also require political candidates to report any offers of foreign government assistance to the FBI, and Congress should criminalize offers of mutual aid between presidential campaigns and foreign governments. LOWERING TAXES AND COSTS ON WORKING FAMILIES Yet Calvert voted to give billions in tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and corporations shipping jobs and profits overseas, while raising taxes over the long term on working families here in Riverside County. We need leaders who care more about delivering for working families in Riverside Countythan for massive corporations and the ultra-wealthy. Only 38% of jobs in the Inland Empire provide a living wage. Nurses, teachers, firefighters and police officers should not be paying higher federal income tax rates than billionaires. Small business owners shouldn’t have higher tax bills than Amazon, which often pays no federal income taxes.
TAKING ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE, SAFEGUARDING WATER RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT This action isn’t just needed to protect our communities – it’s also an opportunity to create a powerful clean energy economy that will create good jobs at good wages for decades. Here in Riverside County we have abundant sunshine and clean energy potential, and we must work to make our region a global leader in clean energy production. My opponent Ken Calvert has consistently voted against climate change and environmental protection legislation. He’s even suggested that climate change is a hoax. We need a representative in Congress who isn’t funded by the oil and gas industry and is willing to protect our planet.
EXPANDING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE My opponent Ken Calvert has consistently voted to make healthcare more expensive and harder to get. He repeatedly voted to eliminate protections for Americans with pre-existing health conditions so his insurance industry donors could make larger profits by denying them care. He voted against capping the cost of insulin used to treat people with diabetes at $35 a month. And he voted against holding drug companies accountable for price gouging and against bringing generic drugs to market sooner at lower prices. We need a leader who will actually fight to lower costs and increase access and quality of care for working families – not vote to increase the profits of his insurance and drug industry donors. Healthcare Priorities:
We need to address racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare, particularly in our lower-income Black, Latino, and Native American communities. We should expand the In Home Supportive Services program, recruit and retain more caregivers and dedicate the funding necessary to provide our seniors and disabled with in-home care. Those who opt for care in nursing homes or similar settings should get quality care, with high standards for staffing and safety. IMPROVING OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION My opponent Ken Calvert has been in office for three decades, but only about one in five adults aged 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or higher in the Inland Empire, compared to nearly one in three statewide. And we do not have enough job training and apprenticeship programs to support those who do not need or wish to go to college. But again and again, Ken Calvert has voted against federal funding for education in Riverside County. Any government budget is a reflection of its priorities. We need to send federal representatives to Congress who are going to prioritize strengthening our public education system and expanding opportunities for all kids in Riverside County.
We have an opportunity to improve public education in Riverside by supporting all families and students and schools and teachers. When we succeed, our young people can thrive in jobs in healthcare, technology, agriculture, green energy, tourism and careers in the military, and contribute to the growth and well-being of our communities and country. SECURING LGBTQ RIGHTS AND EQUALITY My opponent Ken Calvert can’t be trusted to support the LGBTQ community. He has a 30-year track record of opposing gay rights. He voted against the Matthew Shephard Hate Crimes Bill, sought to ban gay marriage in California, voted against repealing the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy and voted against providing LGBTQ people with comprehensive protections against discrimination. In fact, the Human Rights Campaign has given him a “zero” rating for his terrible lack of support of LGBTQ issues. He has voted to allow employers to continue to fire people for being gay, and to allow landlords to continue to evict tenants for being gay. He also joined the lawsuit to overturn Roe, which eviscerated women’s equality and put countless other decisions protecting LGBTQ rights at risk. We cannot trust him with basic human rights. My Equality and LGBTQ Commitments:
It is time for Riverside County to have a congressional representative who will work to secure full LGBTQ rights and protections. Our country, economy, military and society is strongest when all of our citizens are protected from discrimination and have an equal opportunity to contribute, succeed and thrive. REFORMING IMMIGRATION People who immigrate to our country want a better life for their families, and they’re willing to work hard and do jobs that many Americans don’t want to do. Separating children from their parents at the border was un-American, wrong and a stain on our country. My opponent Ken Calvert has had 30 years in Congress to try to fix our broken immigration system, including when Trump and Republicans had complete control of the government. Sadly, he would rather spew anti-immigrant rhetoric than come up with long-term solutions. The United States must reform its broken immigration system by focusing on temporary work permits, payment of taxes, securing the border, and a just and legal path to citizenship for DREAMers and so many others who are contributing to our communities, our economy, and our coun SAFEGUARDING VOTING RIGHTS My opponent Ken Calvert voted against these important and sensible protections for voting rights. He believes the “Big Lie” that led Trump supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in a violent attempt to overturn the results of the election and throw our democracy into chaos. More than 140 police officers were injured in this attempted insurrection. Yet Calvert responded by following through on the demands of insurrectionists and voting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Register Here and Make Your Vote Count! Election Day is Tuesday, November 5th, 2024! PREVENTING GUN VIOLENCE Unfortunately for those of us who live in California’s 41st Congressional District, my opponent Ken Calvert is funded by the gun lobby, having received more NRA campaign money than any other California congressperson from 1998 to 2016. The truth is that gun safety laws don’t infringe on the rights of law-abiding folks, but they do help reduce gun violence. That’s why I’m ready to enact the changes that the vast majority of Americans demand immediately, including:
PROTECTING PUBLIC SAFETY AND INVESTING IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM My opponent Ken Calvert claims that he supports law enforcement even though he voted against additional federal funding for our local police departments in Riverside County. Then he voted for $10 billion in cuts to law enforcement that could have resulted in the loss of nearly 30,000 sworn law enforcement officers and thousands of fewer prosecutors. Similarly, after 140 police officers were injured at the January 6th insurrection, Calvert voted to decertify the results of the 2020 presidential election and then went on to say that charges should be dropped against the insurrectionists. More recently, Calvert impugned our nation’s top law enforcement agencies without any evidence, writing: “All of us should be extremely concerned about what is happening to institutions – the DOJ and FBI – that must be above reproach. Should House Republicans regain the Majority, it will be incumbent upon us investigate to [sic] and root out the rot that has infiltrated these agencies.” His words are both disgraceful and dangerous, and threaten the safety of the men and women working to investigate domestic terrorism, cyber-crimes and foreign interference in our elections. At the Justice Department, I focused on counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases in Southern California. When I helped respond to the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year, I saw firsthand how conspiracy theories and lies turned to violence. I left my job at DOJ to challenge an entrenched incumbent who helped spread those lies.
STEPPING UP FOR VETERANS & SERVICEMEMBERS We have 120,000 veterans living in Riverside County, the third-largest veteran population in California. Sadly, in Riverside County, the rate of veterans who have diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure is considerably higher than the general population, and almost one in three veterans under the age of 40 are unemployed. We need to help get veterans onto insurance plans and create additional tax incentives for employers to hire veterans who’ve given the country so much only to come home without a job. Support for Veterans and Service Members:
The attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a stain on our country’s history, and it is the reason I decided to run for Congress. My opponent Ken Calvert believes former President Trump’s “big lie.” Rep. Calvert’s refusal to stand up to President Trump when he tried to extort Ukraine by withholding the weapons they needed to fight Russia is shameful and unpatriotic. We need leaders in Congress who will confront threats to democracy at home and prepare our country from adversaries like Russia and China. Some additional facts about Ken Calvert’s record:
CHAMPIONING CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM My opponent Ken Calvert spent his career creating a tax system that punishes people who work for a living and allows the wealthiest 400 families in the United States – and many of his corporate donors – to avoid most taxes. His campaigns have raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from the oil and gas industries and the NRA. No wonder Calvert voted against the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022 – the first major gun violence prevention act signed into law in decades. He also voted against legislation that regulated online campaign ads and foreign involvement in elections – important safeguards for protecting the integrity of our elections. Priorities:
I look forward to fighting for real campaign finance reform in Congress and ensuring that our democracy is responsible to working families and not large corporations or special interest groups.[2] |
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| —Will Rollins’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
2022
Will Rollins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rollins' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Will Rollins is a former federal prosecutor who focused on counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases in Southern California. He’s running for Congress because the attack on the U.S. Capitol underscored why America needs a new generation of leaders to end the toxic divisions that threaten our democracy and prevent us from solving problems together. After helping to prosecute some of the insurrectionists who attacked the US Capitol on January 6th, Will decided to challenge Republican Congressman Ken Calvert, who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Coming of age at a time when being gay was a crime in some states, Will and his partner Paolo know that government-sponsored discrimination has lasting effects on all Americans, our economy, and our national security. That has motivated Will to improve the lives of others who face discrimination. Will’s mother and father, a public defender and journalist, stressed the importance of justice and free speech at a young age. His parents taught him that although the system may not be perfect, every generation has a responsibility to improve it. With this in mind, Will is running for Congress to serve the 41st district of California and bring justice and accountability back to Washington.
- I became a national security and terrorism prosecutor because of 9-11. I wanted to help keep America safe. But over my career, I’ve seen the threats to our country change. Today, some of our biggest threats are right here at home, as people become radicalized by conspiracy theories and QAnon lies that spread across social media and echo on Fox News. I have been on the front lines in the fight against extremism, helping to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th and QAnon conspiracy theorists. This is a systemic problem. Extremists, Big Tech and media outlets are profiting from spreading division based on lies, even as they erode our democracy and make it easier for adversaries like China and Russia to exploit us.
- If Americans can start agreeing on basic facts again, we can start working together to tackle the big issues of our generation: reforming our criminal justice system, improving access to health care, growing our economy and protecting our planet.
- Let’s kick out extreme politicians like Ken Calvert who spread the big lies and elect a new generation of leaders willing to save our democracy.
Fixing our broken information system, lowering costs on working families, expanding access to healthcare, and protecting the planet.
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Campaign website
Rollins' campaign website stated the following:
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FIGHTING FOR AMERICAN SENIORS People who have worked their entire lives and paid into Medicare and Social Security should be able to retire in dignity, without being forced to pay for the fiscal irresponsibility of Washington. Republicans like Ken Calvert keep finding ways to make the rich richer — and to pay for it, Republicans want to cut Medicare and Social Security for middle class retirees. I will stand up to protect older Americans, because cutting Medicare and Social Security to pay for billionaires’ tax breaks is wrong and immoral.
Access to abortion is a fundamental part of equality, freedom, and privacy under the law: Roe should not be overturned or scaled back by the Supreme Court. But with the continued, coordinated attacks on access to reproductive healthcare around the country – and the looming threat of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision expected in June of 2022 – Congress must step up to protect and preserve women’s fundamental rights: the Women’s Health Protection Act should be enacted immediately. The Justice Department must also step-up its efforts to protect women’s rights in states that have continued to attack freedom of choice across the country.
If you’ve sat in traffic on the 10, the 15, or the 215, you’ve seen first hand the dire need the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley face for increased infrastructure funding. Our current representative, Ken Calvert, voted against millions for the I-15 corridor project in Corona, $12 million to widen Bundy Road in Menifee, and millions of other federal dollars for infrastructure improvements across the Coachella Valley, purely in the name of obstruction. It’s time to send someone to Congress who will vote in the best interest of the people they represent, not play party politics with your tax dollars
Extremists, Big Tech, and media outlets are profiting by spreading division based on lies, even as they erode our democracy and make it easier for adversaries like China and Russia to exploit us. But I have a specific plan to hold these actors accountable:
Just like any other business, tech companies should not have blanket immunity when their own software amplifies violence, lies, threats, and foreign disinformation that cause economic and physical harm to the American people. We should also reform and update regulations in order to break down information bubbles and propaganda so that actual facts – instead of brainwashing – reach the public. That means requiring big tech, cable news, and talk radio to provide transparency in advertising, and to create a framework – a modern fairness doctrine – that will incentivize the presentation of multiple views on issues of public importance. America’s enemies seek to divide us. After January 6, Russia, Iran, and China reportedly tried to capitalize on American divisions by exploiting U.S. social media platforms and spreading hate. By updating our disclosure rules and strengthening our cyber defenses against foreign adversaries that try to exploit our own technology, we can strengthen our democracy. America must also require political candidates to report any offers of foreign government assistance to the FBI, and Congress should criminalize offers of mutual aid between presidential campaigns and foreign governments.
I want to lower taxes on the middle class families who actually live in Riverside County, where the median income is around $70,000 per year. We do that by raising taxes on the billionaires that have been protected by Ken Calvert over the last 30 years: The 400 richest Americans – all billionaires – hold more wealth than 60% of the country put together – that’s more than 150 million Americans combined. Those 400 households pay an average of just 8.2% per year in federal income taxes, while the rest of us pay significantly more. I want to reverse that by making sure billionaires pay their fair share, and by lowering taxes on the middle class Americans and the working families in the Inland Empire and the Coachella Valley.
Climate change will not only increase global competition for scarce resources, it will make Riverside County more vulnerable to extreme heat and wildfires than it has ever been before. Incredibly, Ken Calvert believes climate change is a hoax. We need a representative in Congress who actually believes in science and is willing to do something about it. Riverside County also has the opportunity to develop thousands of small, clean-tech businesses that will have a foothold in the expanding green energy economy.
Ken Calvert has consistently made decisions that increased our health insurance premiums in California, and in 2017, he voted to weaken protections for Americans with pre-existing health conditions. We need a leader who actually understands the way that laws impact our health insurance premiums, who will tell the truth about the impact of those laws, and who will enhance – not destroy – legal protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions. We also need a baseline of coverage for all Americans, because healthcare is a human right.
Ensuring that America has the world’s strongest military and strongest economy means investing in our ability to outsmart – not just outfight – our enemies. That means investing in public schools to ensure that the United States has the edge in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, precision electronics, and new forms of energy. It also means respecting voters in this district who want to go to college but can’t. Ken Calvert has been in office for three decades, but only about one-in-five adults aged 25 and older holds a bachelor’s degree or higher in the Inland Empire, compared to nearly one-in-three statewide. Of the voters here who wanted to transfer from a junior college to a four-year school, only 28 percent managed to do that within six years. But again and again, Ken Calvert has voted to cut federal funding for education in Riverside County.
Ken Calvert is stuck in the dark ages: he believes Americans should be kicked out of the military if they tell anyone that they’re gay, that transgender Americans should be banned from the military, and that employers should be able to fire you if you’re LGBTQ. His outdated views are not only bigoted, they undermine our economy and national security. If you can hold a sniper rifle, fly an F-35, or translate languages critical to national security, what matters is your desire to serve, not whether you’re gay, straight, or transgender. America’s advantage over countries like China and Russia comes in part from both our military and economic strength — and that strength comes from attracting, building, and retaining the best and the brightest through an inclusive and open democracy, not bigotry, ignorance, and laws that suppress human potential.
People who immigrate to the United States want a better life for their families, and they’re willing to work hard and do jobs that many Americans don’t want to do. Separating parents from their children at the border was un-American, wrong, and a stain on our country. Ken Calvert has had 30 years in Congress to try to fix our broken immigration system, but he’s done nothing other than spew anti-immigrant rhetoric. The United States should reform its broken immigration system by focusing on temporary work permits, payment of taxes, and a path to citizenship.
It’s time we Pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. We should outlaw partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts, allow people to vote by mail if they want to, and modify campaign finance laws to require more transparency. Congress should also restore the full protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which were gutted in recent years by the Supreme Court.
We should keep handguns and assault rifles away from felons and others who pose a threat to the community by requiring basic violent history checks for all firearm purchases, implementing red flag laws, and banning high-capacity magazines. Even though almost all gun owners in the country support violent history checks, it’s no surprise that Ken Calvert does not: he received more NRA campaign money than any other California congressman from 1998 to 2016.
The Justice Department needs to invest more resources in solving complex, white-collar crimes instead of low-level drug offenses, including by eliminating mandatory minimums for drug crimes without a nexus to violence, and strengthening penalties for complex fraud. To transform the way that our criminal justice system operates over the long term, we should require prosecutors and defense attorneys at the state and federal level to spend the first two or three years of their careers working on both sides of the courtroom, similar to military JAG lawyers. Prosecutors need to understand what it feels like to have a human being facing prison as a client, just as defense attorneys need to understand what it feels like to lie awake worrying about your responsibility to keep dangerous people off the street. We also need to pass federal legislation that mandates independent investigations of police shootings, so that departments aren’t tasked with investigating their own officers after they are accused of misconduct.
In Riverside County, the rate of veterans who have diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure is considerably higher than the general population, and almost 1 in 3 veterans under the age of 40 are unemployed. We need to help get veterans onto insurance plans and create additional tax incentives for employers to hire veterans who’ve given the country so much only to come home without a job.
Middle class families’ voices are being left out of the political process. Powerful special interest groups with unlimited amounts of money are undermining our democracy. Americans are tired of the partisan dysfunction and the corrupting influence of money in politics. I will work every day to stand up for working families in CA-41. I am refusing corporate PAC money in this campaign, instead I am building a campaign powered by people, and I look forward to fighting for real campaign finance reform in Congress.[2] |
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| —Will Rollins' campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 1, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Will Rollins for Congress, “Issues,” accessed February 7, 2024
- ↑ Will Rollins for Congress, “On the Issues,” accessed May 23, 2022
