Mantosh Kumar

[{"question": "Ballotpedia survey responses", "answer_html": "<p>See also: <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a></p>\n<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-10 col-md-6 col-xs-offset-1 col-md-offset-3\"><p><a href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\"><img align=\"middle\" alt=\"Candidate Connection\" src=\"https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/8/88/Candidate_Connection_Logo.png\" width=\"90%\"/></a></p></div></div>\n<p>Mantosh Kumar completed <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a> survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kumar's responses.</p>\n<p><span class=\"expand-all\">Expand all</span> | <span class=\"collapse-all\">Collapse all</span></p>\n<div aria-multiselectable=\"true\" class=\"panel-group\" id=\"accordion\" role=\"tablist\"><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-388246-2025-12-12\" id=\"heading-key-message-388246-2025-12-12\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-key-message-388246-2025-12-12\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-388246-2025-12-12\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tPlease list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading-key-message-388246-2025-12-12\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-key-message-388246-2025-12-12\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><ul><li><p>An Affordability Crisis - Our CA-15 communities are suffering from skyrocketing costs for essentials like groceries, insurance, taxes, and utilities are outpacing wages. Teachers, nurses, and police can't afford to live in the communities that they serve and endure long commutes. Heartbroken retirees are forced to leave their long-time homes where they lived all their lives. This cruel, unsustainable situation stems from years of unrepresentative, PAC-funded, self-serving politics. As your Congressman, I will fight back by recognizing healthcare as a right (\"Medicare for All\"), repealing Trump’s inflationary tariffs, and holding insurance companies and county boards accountable for arbitrarily raising premiums and property taxes.</p></li><li><p>Fight authoritarianism - Tired of Democrats' weak-kneed response to Trump and his enablers' assault on democracy? I will change that. As your Congressman, I will fiercely defend our institutions: impeach threats to elections, expose authoritarian plots, and unite us against subversion. No more tepid talk; I will lead historic reforms to safeguard voting rights, curb executive overreach, and restore civility in Washington. Inspired by Lincoln, FDR and JFK, I will fight for you—affordable housing, healthcare, and a thriving economy—while battling the forces eroding our republic.</p></li><li><p>Get ready for the future - In AI's transformative era, Mantosh Kumar— a tech-business leader — is uniquely suited to prepare our kids, educators, and workforce.</p><p>With decades solving complex challenges, driving large-scale ops excellence, Mantosh will champion AI training programs: empowering schools with AI curricula, up-skilling teachers to inspire excitement over fear, and retraining workers for AI-driven jobs.</p><p>He'll partner with tech firms for apprenticeships, advocate ethical AI policies to protect privacy/jobs, fund community AI labs for hands-on learning, and push legislation for safety nets like transition grants —ensuring prosperity for all Americans.</p><p><br/></p><p>Protect workers from AI related job losses - We are witnessing the quiet onset of an economic displacement crisis that threatens to stratify American society into two permanent classes: those who harness AI, and those displaced by it. What was once the realm of science fiction — machines replacing human labor at scale — is now a measurable, accelerating reality. Between 13% and 16% of entry-level workers aged 22 to 25 have already lost jobs to automated systems. These are not statistics. These are our children, our neighbors, our future. With decades solving complex challenges, driving large-scale excellence, I will work alongside Senator Bernie Sanders and other like minded politicians to put hard guard rails on businesses so they can’t fire workers in the name of AI productivity. We need to define specific areas and parameters where AI will be allowed to work, impose AI displacement tax, transparency and accountability mandates, and environmental hard caps on AI Infrastructure (massive data centers) while creating the AI-Proof safety net. To learn more, please visit https://mantosh.us/issues/</p></li></ul></span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-388246-2025-12-12\" id=\"heading1-388246-2025-12-12\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse1-388246-2025-12-12\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-388246-2025-12-12\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading1-388246-2025-12-12\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse1-388246-2025-12-12\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tMantosh Kumar, a business and tech executive with 25+ years at Oracle, Cisco &amp; ServiceNow, is passionate about policies harnessing innovation for bold, moonshot solutions —echoing FDR's New Deal &amp; JFK's vision.<br/>\n<p>Key focuses:<br/>\r\n- Defending democracy: Restore civility, combat authoritarianism &amp; special interests, ensure accountable representation.<br/>\r\n- Universal healthcare: Medicare for All, affordable access without predatory denials — aligning with 60%+ public support.<br/>\r\nEnd unaffordability for teachers, nurses &amp; workers; combat homelessness via wage-housing balance.<br/>\r\n- Economic opportunity: Good-paying jobs, dignified wages, AI training to prepare kids, educators &amp; workforce for transformation.<br/>\n</p>\n- Fair immigration: Orderly system fueling growth.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div></div>\n<div class=\"small\" data-nosnippet=\"\"><p><i><b>Note:</b> Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.</i></p></div>", "answer_text": "See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection\n\nMantosh Kumar completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kumar's responses.\nExpand all | Collapse all\nPlease list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office? An Affordability Crisis - Our CA-15 communities are suffering from skyrocketing costs for essentials like groceries, insurance, taxes, and utilities are outpacing wages. Teachers, nurses, and police can't afford to live in the communities that they serve and endure long commutes. Heartbroken retirees are forced to leave their long-time homes where they lived all their lives. This cruel, unsustainable situation stems from years of unrepresentative, PAC-funded, self-serving politics. As your Congressman, I will fight back by recognizing healthcare as a right (\"Medicare for All\"), repealing Trump’s inflationary tariffs, and holding insurance companies and county boards accountable for arbitrarily raising premiums and property taxes. Fight authoritarianism - Tired of Democrats' weak-kneed response to Trump and his enablers' assault on democracy? I will change that. As your Congressman, I will fiercely defend our institutions: impeach threats to elections, expose authoritarian plots, and unite us against subversion. No more tepid talk; I will lead historic reforms to safeguard voting rights, curb executive overreach, and restore civility in Washington. Inspired by Lincoln, FDR and JFK, I will fight for you—affordable housing, healthcare, and a thriving economy—while battling the forces eroding our republic. Get ready for the future - In AI's transformative era, Mantosh Kumar— a tech-business leader — is uniquely suited to prepare our kids, educators, and workforce. With decades solving complex challenges, driving large-scale ops excellence, Mantosh will champion AI training programs: empowering schools with AI curricula, up-skilling teachers to inspire excitement over fear, and retraining workers for AI-driven jobs. He'll partner with tech firms for apprenticeships, advocate ethical AI policies to protect privacy/jobs, fund community AI labs for hands-on learning, and push legislation for safety nets like transition grants —ensuring prosperity for all Americans. Protect workers from AI related job losses - We are witnessing the quiet onset of an economic displacement crisis that threatens to stratify American society into two permanent classes: those who harness AI, and those displaced by it. What was once the realm of science fiction — machines replacing human labor at scale — is now a measurable, accelerating reality. Between 13% and 16% of entry-level workers aged 22 to 25 have already lost jobs to automated systems. These are not statistics. These are our children, our neighbors, our future. With decades solving complex challenges, driving large-scale excellence, I will work alongside Senator Bernie Sanders and other like minded politicians to put hard guard rails on businesses so they can’t fire workers in the name of AI productivity. We need to define specific areas and parameters where AI will be allowed to work, impose AI displacement tax, transparency and accountability mandates, and environmental hard caps on AI Infrastructure (massive data centers) while creating the AI-Proof safety net. To learn more, please visit https://mantosh.us/issues/ What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Mantosh Kumar, a business and tech executive with 25+ years at Oracle, Cisco & ServiceNow, is passionate about policies harnessing innovation for bold, moonshot solutions —echoing FDR's New Deal & JFK's vision. Key focuses: - Defending democracy: Restore civility, combat authoritarianism & special interests, ensure accountable representation. - Universal healthcare: Medicare for All, affordable access without predatory denials — aligning with 60%+ public support. End unaffordability for teachers, nurses & workers; combat homelessness via wage-housing balance. - Economic opportunity: Good-paying jobs, dignified wages, AI training to prepare kids, educators & workforce for transformation. - Fair immigration: Orderly system fueling growth.\nNote: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it."}]