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John, I want
to share this photo with you today and tell you the story alongside it.

This is me at 13 years old, in all my “glory” at my Bar Mitzvah:

[ [link removed] ]Adam before his bar mitzvah at 13 years old

I’ll admit, it’s easy to laugh at this photo — the classic 1970s bow tie,
the braces, the yarmulke, the looks — but it also gives me an opportunity
to tell you a little about how I approach my faith.

Throughout my career in public service, I’ve thought a lot about the
Jewish tradition of “Tikkun Olam,” or repairing the world. And over the
last few years, a lot has been broken, and there’s a lot to fix. It’s been
my cause.

I want to take you back to 1973. Our family moved around a lot because my
father was in the “schmata” business. He started as a traveling salesman
and later worked as a regional manager for a men’s clothing company.

We moved from Massachusetts, where I was born, lived a few years in
Arizona, and then ended up in the Bay Area. It was there that my dad got
out of the clothing business and bought a lumber yard, where I worked
during the summers. There’s nothing like hauling sheets of plywood and
roofing, and shoveling concrete to make you want to go to graduate school.

This photo is from a time when my family was a member of Temple Isaiah in
Lafayette, California, a reform synagogue we joined after moving to the
Bay Area. And it came after months of practicing for my Bar Mitzvah. I
even taped my practice sessions on our tape recorder (I have a copy of
that tape somewhere, believe it or not, voice cracking and all).

While the Hebrew language skills I quickly acquired were just as quickly
lost, the lessons that my faith taught me endure and guide me to this day.

In fact, my favorite passage comes from Micah: What is required of us, but
to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.

These principles have guided my public service. They have led me to pursue
criminal justice reform, to make housing the homeless a key priority, to
combat discrimination, and to ensure the rule of law is applied equally.
They have also guided my path as I held Trump accountable and stood up to
the most unscrupulous man to ever occupy the Oval Office.

And they guide me in the fight we face today: repairing and rebuilding our
democracy so that we leave it better for my children and yours.

That’s why I put everything I have into my work for the cause of our
democracy. It’s the first thing I think about when I wake up in the
morning, and I don’t rest until I’ve done all I can for the day.

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work by chipping in to my campaign today.

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Hopefully, this photo helped brighten your day and gave you a bit more
insight into why I have dedicated my life to this cause.

Thank you,

Adam

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