Stay Up to Date with the Campaign
Sign up for news and updates on Max Steiner for Congress!
Max Steiner for Congress 2022
Are you tired of Congressman Doug LaMalfa? Vote for change. Vote for Steiner.
The voters of Congressional District One will face a clear choice in 2022: a fighter or a follower, a soldier or a seditionist, a candidate who will work to solve North State issues in forestry, fire, and water – or a self-serving career politician who will continue to ignore real problems as he lies about imaginary ones. Help Max Steiner send Doug LaMalfa home. Help District One send Max Steiner to Congress.
Max Steiner is running for Congress because he loves his country and knows that the North State deserves a better congressman than Doug LaMalfa.
On September 11th, 2001, Max was a high school student. Four years later, he was an infantryman in Iraq. He served two years in Iraq and earned his Combat Infantry Badge while still in his teens.
On January 6th, 2021, Max was a Foreign Service Officer on leave from the State Department. Today, he is a candidate for Congress. After an attack on our Capitol that sent our country’s Members of Congress fleeing to a secure location, 139 Republican members of the House of Representatives returned that night to betray their oath of office and vote against certifying the results of a free and fair election. Doug was one of that cowardly crowd, and the oath of office he chose to betray that night was nearly identical to the oath Max swore when he enlisted in the Army. These solemn oaths were neither to a person nor to a political party but were instead to the support and defense of our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Max knows how fragile constitutional democracy is, and how precious. Doug does not. Doug has never served in our country’s armed forces, never fought against terrorists who hate the very idea of the rule of law. He has never lived or worked in corrupt countries with dictatorial regimes that enrich themselves while denying citizens the ability to vote them out of power. Doug’s sheltered life as heir to the family rice farm and 20-year career as a do-nothing politician have left him without an ounce of patriotism and with nothing but contempt for the hard-working voters of this district.
Americans are called by our Constitution to work together to “support the general welfare,” and in the North State that means spending money to solve the twin threats posed by fire and drought. Our forests are a tinderbox, and the respiratory health of 100 million Americans is threatened every time a mega-fire darkens the sky with smoke. We need to spend money on thinning and on prescribed fires to reduce fire danger in our forests, and we need to streamline the process of compliance with environmental regulations to ensure that we can begin using these tools immediately. Climate change means that we will need more water storage behind dams to address declining snow storage in the Sierra. As our Congressman, Max will fight to get seven billion federal dollars allocated to solving our fire problem and another billion federal dollars allocated to solving our water problem. These are public problems, and solving them will require government intervention: we cannot “tax cut” our way to safer forests and more water.
District One deserves a congressman who will both stand up to defend our democracy and sit down to write legislation. Max will be that Congressman. He has served his country as a soldier or a diplomat in some of the most dangerous regions of the world, under Republican and Democratic Presidents alike. He is a principled centrist, a man with fresh ideas and a desire to solve real problems.
Max fought in Iraq, and he will fight in Washington. As an infantryman, he dodged IEDs and kicked down doors. As our Congressman, he will find common ground with Democrats and Republicans and fight to ensure the allocation of eight billion federal dollars to forestry and water projects in our district. It’s time to send a fighter to Congress, a soldier who has shared danger with Republicans and Democrats alike, an American patriot who knows that we can work together to achieve common goals if we do not allow ourselves to be defined by our political parties.
Congress is broken, and nothing will change for the better until we start electing better people to Congress. Doug’s sole focus during his ten years in Congress has been not on his constituents but on securing multi-million dollar subsidies for his rice farm. He has not himself suffered losses from wildfires, and he would much rather spread lies about imaginary problems than work to solve the single biggest problem our district faces today: poorly managed forests that pose unacceptable fire risk to our friends, relatives, and neighbors.