My Husband the Congressman

Every week when Congress is in session, my husband flies across the country to work. When he returns at the end of the week, we are busy attending community events throughout the 24th Congressional District. Being a U.S. Representative is not a job, it is a way of life.

Elton and I have four children and 10 grandchildren. Our children were all raised here and are products of the public school system. Three of our four children live, work and volunteer in the district and their children attend our public schools.

On the weekends, when we’re not at community events talking to our neighbors about their concerns, Elton spends his time playing with the grandkids, attending their baseball and soccer games or building them forts and playhouses. It’s how he relaxes after spending the week in committee hearings, discussing with his congressional colleagues the need to fairly compensate the victims of the 2008 Metro link crash, or working any number of other foreign and domestic issues that are on his plate at any given time. One of the four full committees Elton sits on is the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Although he cannot talk about the national security threats he deals with on that committee, sometimes I can just tell how heavy it weighs on him. But the concern he brings home fades for a short time as he immerses himself in our grandchildren’s young lives.

But it’s also for them that he continues to fly to work every week and take on the serious issues of fighting terrorism, creating a climate that helps businesses create jobs, rejuvenating our economy and fixing our health care system without destroying it. Our children and grandchildren – yours and mine – are our future. Elton wants to make sure they have prospects for a prosperous future. As a member of Congress, Elton works long and hard yet always makes time to be a husband, father, grandfather and the neighbor you see around town. Home provides the roots, the understanding and the incentive to battle for what’s best for our country and Ventura and Santa Barbara counties in Washington, D.C.

I am proud of my husband and the important work he does. I know how much he cares for our country and our community. Please join me in voting for Elton Gallegly for Congress.