Video: Raj Goyle (D)
From Kansas Representative Raj Goyle’s website www.rajforkansas.com:
Biography
“Raj Goyle learned these simple values growing up in Wichita. And they are the same values that guide him every day as an active member of the community and an independent voice for common sense and reform in the State Legislature.
Kansas values inspired Raj to run for the Kansas House in 2006 because he knew his community deserved better. Raj has worked hard to bring Republicans and Democrats together to forge common sense solutions to the many challenges facing our community. He learned from an early age that serving your neighbor and serving the public is a serious responsibility — a principle he has sought to honor on a daily basis.
Raj fulfilled his campaign promise and wrote the law restricting where Fred Phelps could picket at the funerals of our fallen heroes. Just this year he led the effort to help save jobs and provide critical assistance to thousands of laid-off workers in our community. And Raj has worked hard to pass tax cuts for Kansans to help create good jobs here at home.
Raj has never accepted politics as usual and has refused to use his office for personal gain. He has never missed a vote, never taken a free personal meal or gift from a lobbyist, and never taken a taxpayer-funded trip. He has always put the people he represents first. And he will take that same ethic to Congress.
Too often, our politics is defined by party labels but Raj knows that no political party has all the answers to the challenges we face here in Kansas. Raj approaches issues with common sense: asking what is right, what is wrong, and what is best for Wichita and the State of Kansas. He will support a good idea whether it comes from Democrats or Republicans.
Raj is a native Wichitan and his life in Kansas taught him that the American Dream is available to anyone who works hard and plays by the rules. Raj’s parents have run a small medical clinic for more than 30 years that has created good jobs and provides top-quality care for the community. Raj learned about the challenges business owners face in providing services while meeting payroll and covering expenses.
Like other kids growing up in Wichita, Raj participated in Cub Scouts, YMCA basketball leagues and immersed himself in school activities. When he was 15, he helped organize a community-wide recycling program and led a cleanup of the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita. He also worked at the Wichita Eagle where he helped produce the “back to school issue” and wrote a column on each high school in the city.
Raj graduated from Duke University and then Harvard Law School where in addition to his legal studies, he founded a technology company with two classmates that taught him the importance of entrepreneurship.
And along the way he met the love of his life — his wife Monica, an attorney and daughter of retired public school teachers.
After law school, Raj clerked for a federal judge and then as an advocate for better schools, improved voting rights for the disabled, and as an expert on homeland security issues.
Raj is proud to be a Kansan. This is where he grew up and where he and Monica make their home. Raj is running for Congress to bring our Kansas values and common sense to Washington.”
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