Out Dem. Will Rollins is fighting to unseat a 15-term MAGA Congressman with an anti-LGBTQ past

Will Rollins
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The race for Congress in a newly redrawn district in Southern California is a study in contrasts.

California 41, a three-headed monster about a hundred miles wide, extends from the eastern edge of Orange County through ruby red Riverside, and over the San Jacinto Mountains to Palm Springs, a sunbaked blue enclave in the Coachella Valley.

And the Democratic and Republican candidates running to represent the district couldn’t be any more different, either.

The Democrat, Will Rollins, 38, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia Law, a former federal prosecutor who worked on January 6 insurrection cases, and a polymath on issues ranging from counter-intelligence to the attention economy to the climate crisis. He’s also refreshingly candid about his sexuality: he’s gay and couldn’t be prouder.

The Republican, 69 year-old Rep. Ken Calvert is reminiscent of a caricature from a late-19th century Thomas Nast cartoon, perhaps straddling the Capitol and swatting away constituents with one hand while counting his cash with the other. According to Rollins, that’s exactly what Calvert’s been doing over a 30-year career in Congress.

“He’s corrupt,” says Rollins. “He’s somebody who…

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