New to DU. New to the group. Decided to run for LD4 House seat

[AZLD4Candidate]

Greetings fellow Arizonans. I am a social studies teacher in the Baboquivari School District on the Tohono o'Odham nation. To be closer to my students, I will be moving to Sells in June.

With that, I have decided to throw my hat in the ring for LD4 House seat, trying to unseat odious freshman Republican Joel John and take the seat back for the Democrats, where I would serve with Charlene Fernandez.

I am a political neophyte, though I do teach it and have for 15 years.

The decision did not come lightly. It was made after I spoke to my wife, who was denied entry into the country, detained at the airport in Seattle without allowing me to contact her for three days, and then unceremoniously kicked out of the country by the CBP. I was threatened with arrest if I kept calling to contact her because I "couldn't prove I was her husband," that she "had no right to speak to me," and that they were getting "tired of me tying up their phone lines" with my "unnecessary nonsense (nonsense was not the word they used)." She had a valid, legally issued US visa, was in the process of starting her green card, and had all her COVID19 and marriage papers with her, and they didn't care.

While I know that immigration is not a state issue, the issues of police/prison reform, voting rights, taxation, and education, are the issues I will live and die upon.

I realize that John is well connected, and well funded. I am asking for your help to get me on the ballot. PM me if you want more information and we can talk privately about personally sensitive things (like my personal information) I do not feel as yet comfortable putting on a public forum.

I have been a lurker for years. And I am a believer in what the Lincoln Project did to Trump, taking the fight to the opponent, controlling the language of the debate, and constantly putting John on the defensive.

I hope I can find help doing this, as I am a political neophyte at 42 years old.