The Real Takeaway of the 20 16th Election

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i ran on primarily an economic message and a unity message in 20 18, which is when i ran around, hey, look, we've got to work together. We're actually like the purple part of the state, typically. And so let's put all this chaos aside. Let's start building our economy in a way that works for all of us. That was essentially my message. The second part of it, so that you got that message rightnd, then the advice i was getting from people wh'd ben in politics forever was you have to build a great team, and you have to raise money. So i built a custom sales force dashport mwhich i don't think is

This episode is a first for Acquired: we’re joined by a sitting US Congressman (from Ben’s home state of Ohio!), Republican House Representative Anthony Gonzalez. Anthony serves on the House Financial Services Committee and is deeply involved in crypto and Web3 regulation, as well as on the Climate and Science, Space & Technology Committee where he oversees NASA among many other agencies. His also has an absolutely incredible story — his family immigrated from Cuba to Ohio, he played in the NFL, he was COO of an Investment Group of Santa Barbara backed startup, and he was one of a small number of Republican congresspeople who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump after the events January 6th.

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