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Harley Rouda (Harley Edwin Rouda Jr) is an American lawyer, realtor, technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician from the state of California. He is a member of the Democratic Party, he serves in the United States House of Representatives from California’s 48th congressional district, encompassing south-western coastal portions of Orange County including the cities of Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, and Newport Beach. He first ran for office in the 2018 elections, where he defeated 15-term incumbent Dana Rohrabacher.
Harley Rouda Age
Harley Rouda is a 57-year-old lawyer, realtor, technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician born on December 10, 1961, in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Harley Rouda Family
Harley Rouda was born in Columbus, Ohio, to Marlese Rouda (mother) and the late Sr, Harley Edwin Rouda (father). He is the youngest of 4 children. He was raised in Columbus, Ohio with his four siblings.
Harley Rouda Education
Harley Rouda attended the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta social fraternity and where he received a degree in Bachelor of Science. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Ohio State University, a Juris Doctor from Capital University Law School.
Harley Rouda Wife
Harley Rouda is married to author Kaira Sturdivant Rouda. The couples were blessed with four children. His family moved to California after he sold the family firm.
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Harley Rouda began his political career under law firm Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP after passing the Ohio bar examination, until 1990. As a lawyer, he specialized in business with a focus on securities work, business formation, and intellectual property.
He also contributed to the firm’s pro bono efforts with nonprofit organizations to tackle problems in Columbus during the 1980s. Since then, he has been active in numerous charities and civic organizations especially those involving fighting homelessness and domestic violence.
He runs for a political office in order for him to be considered to run for the seat of the city council seat before backing out and preferring to focus on expanding his business. He got that motivation through his parents who were the Republican politician.
Since the 2004 elections, he would vote for the Democratic presidential nominees, however, he donated only to the Republican congressional candidates during the same period before 2007. Shortly before registering as a Democrat, he donated to John Kasich during the 2016 presidential campaign.
John Kasich would suspend his campaign shortly before he was defeated by Trump in the California primaries. Due to these donations respectively, he was criticized by Democrats as insufficiently loyal to the party or being a “Republican in disguise” during the campaign.
On March 2, 2017, he announced his candidacy for U.S. Representative from California’s 48th congressional district, challenging the incumbent, Dana Rohrabacher, shortly after changing his party registration from no party preference into a Democrat.
His primary opponent, Hans Keirstead, was endorsed by the Democratic Party of California at the party convention. He received the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee endorsement in May 2018. In the nonpartisan blanket primary election, he secured the second spot over Keirstead on the ballot by 125 votes (from a total of 174,024), thus allowing him to face Rohrabacher in the general election.
On October 25, Michael Bloomberg announced he would support him during his campaign by donating $4 million to his PAC, Independence USA. That made Rouda’s race against Rohrabacher the most expensive House race in the 2018 election cycle. On November 6, the election was too close to call, as Rouda held a narrow lead over Rohrabacher. His leads would expand shortly after, until the Associated Press called the race for Rouda on November 10.
Harley Rouda Net Worth | Harley Rouda Salary
Harley Rouda is an American lawyer, realtor, technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician who has an estimated net worth of $7 million dollars as of 2019. Harley Rouda earns a salary of $128,000
Harley Rouda Committee assignments
- United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform
- Subcommittee on Environment (Chair)
- Subcommittee on National Security
- United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
- Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Caucus memberships
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
- New Democrat Coalition
Harley Rouda Electoral history
During California’s 48th Congressional District election, 2018 Him a Republican won by getting total votes of 157,837 (53.6%) his opponent Dana Rohrabacher got a total vote of 136,899 (46.4%)
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Newport Beach, CA – Congressman Harley Rouda (CA-48) issued the following statement in response to the photo of Newport Harbor High School students which was reported yesterday: “Last week I met Sidney Walton, who was 100-year-old WWII veteran who fought to eradicate Nazism.
The incident with the Newport Harbor High School students, like so many recent events across the country, is an example of this ruinous ideology trying to become mainstream again. We owe it to Sidney and our kids to call it out, and not whitewash these moments of antisemitism and racism, whether in my district or anywhere else across the country.
Washington, DC – UPDATE: the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) announced after their closed hearing with Michael Cohen that they will interview Felix Sater in public later this month.
At yesterday’s hearing with Michael Cohen by the Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR), Congressman Harley Rouda (CA-48) asked the following questions, in which Cohen told Rouda that the President lied under oath about his relationship with Felix Sater.
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On March 2, 2017, Rouda announced his candidacy for U.S. Representative from California’s 48th congressional district, challenging the incumbent, Dana Rohrabacher, shortly after changing his party registration from no party preference into a Democrat.
His primary opponent, Hans Keirstead, was endorsed by the Democratic Party of California at the party convention. Rouda received the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee endorsement in May 2018.
In the nonpartisan blanket primary election, Rouda secured the second spot over Keirstead on the ballot by 125 votes (from a total of 174,024), thus allowing him to face Rohrabacher in the general election.
On October 25, Michael Bloomberg announced he would be supporting Rouda’s campaign by donating $4 million to his PAC, Independence USA. That made Rouda’s race against Rohrabacher the most expensive House race in the 2018 election cycle.
On November 6, the election was too close to call, as Rouda held a narrow lead over Rohrabacher. Rouda’s lead would expand shortly after, until the Associated Press called the race for Rouda on November 10.
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Democratic House candidate Harley Rouda, is looking to benefit from a potential blue wave, is presenting himself to voters as a pro-business moderate committed to health care. At his Newport Beach office, he sat down with The Sacramento Bee on Friday for a lengthy conversation about the state of his efforts to unseat Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
Outside political groups, including a super PAC affiliated with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, are spending millions as Election Day nears. Though Rouda has refused to accept money from political action committees, he’d raised $5.4 million, as of Oct. 17.
Rohrabacher had raised just $2.2 million. Rouda controlled nearly two-thirds of the available cash in the race by Oct. 17. Voters in California’s 48th Congressional District, in coastal Orange County, are most concerned with the economy, healthcare, gun laws, and immigration, according to a recent poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.
The race between incumbent Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa and Democratic challenger Harley Rouda is tight; two polls released recently have the candidates tied. Republicans have a 10-point voter registration advantage, but the district voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election — one of seven GOP-led districts in the state that went for the Democratic presidential nominee.
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Outside of policy, there is one issue that could potentially impact the result: Russia. Rohrabacher, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, has been dogged by accusations of overly friendly ties to pro-Russia lobbyists.
Some 44% of likely voters said Rohrabacher’s connections with Russia made them less likely to support the incumbent, and 49% said the ties had no effect on which candidate they would support.
Democrats have made Rohrabacher’s friendliness with Russian President Vladimir Putin a key issue, running several ads focusing on the relationship. Rouda, a real estate entrepreneur, said in one TV ad, “…it’s time for a leader who represents us, not Russia.”
Harley Rouda Victory
Harley Rouda has declared victory in a hotly contested California race against Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican dubbed “Putin’s favorite congressman” who is approaching his 30th year in office. “The messaging of common sense for common ground has resonated with the voters and propelled us to victory,” Rouda said.
Rohrabacher won the Costa Mesa district along the coast of Orange County by 17 percentage points in 2016. The latest numbers have Rouda up by 4 percentage points — a lead that is likely to increase as more ballots come in.
In an interview with The Sacramento Bee 11 days before Election Day, Rouda expressed concern the race would be more tightly contested. When the first results came out showing him tied on election night, he grew increasingly optimistic.
“As we got closer to Election Day and saw the momentum we had, it did feel that what we were seeing in the vote count would allow us to make an earlier call than expected,” Rouda said. Since Rouda’s victory declaration early Saturday, he has been on calls with some of his soon-to-be-colleagues on Capitol Hill.
He said infrastructure and climate change will be the two issues at the top of his priority list because he thinks they have “the widest (bipartisan) support.” Rouda said Rohrabacher has not yet called to congratulate him and “doesn’t know” if his opponent ever will.
Rohrabacher’s campaign says it will comment once all the votes have been counted — which could be another two weeks or so, according to estimates from Neal Kelley, Orange County’s registrar of voters. Andrew Eisenberger, a spokesman for Rohrabacher’s re-election campaign, said in a statement, “There are still more than 300,000 ballots remaining to count.
Our volunteer observers are at the Registrar of Voters observing that process. We will have an additional comment once the count is complete.” The Associated Press officially called the race for Rouda around 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Rouda’s win could spell trouble in the coming days for three vulnerable California Republicans, where Democratic candidates are inching closer to victory. In House District 10, Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, trails Democratic challenger Josh Harder by 1.8 percentage points — a difference of 3,307 votes.
Republican Young Kim holds a narrow lead over Democratic challenger Gil Cisneros in District 39 — an Orange County area located by Fullerton. The two candidates are competing for the seat Republican Rep. Ed Royce, R-Fullerton, chose to vacate. Kim is fending off Cisneros with a 2,423-vote lead.
She’s ahead of him by 1.4 percentage points. Republican Congresswoman Mimi Walters is clinging to a 1-point lead over Democratic challenger Katie Porter in District 45, which is located in an Orange County area covering Irvine. Walters leads by 2,009 votes.
The Associated Press on Friday night officially declared victory for Democrat Katie Hill in District 25, which is based in northern Los Angeles County. Hill unseated GOP incumbent Steve Knight. Rouda said his win signals a shift in voter demographics and voter attitudes.
“Most Americans are between the 20-yard lines. They support socially progressive ideas, but they also embrace fiscal responsibility. … When any politician starts to get outside those norms in this district or elsewhere, I think they run the risk of veering too far away from what the American public really wants.”
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