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Juan… who? In summary, who is Juan Xuna?
By Juan Xuna, from his 2002 congressional campaign website. Reproduced as he wrote it.
Original date: page last updated 10/28/2002.
Source: http://xuna.com/main_pages/who_i_am.htm (Wayback Machine capture of 2003-11-30).The original page had family and campaign photos; they were not preserved, so their captions were left out. The campaign committee’s address, phone and email were removed.
My campaign runs on ideals, talent, air, and hope in our democratic system (with all its qualities and imperfections).
IN SUMMARY, WHO IS JUAN XUNA ?
A candidate to the US Congress, Florida D#22 (please see district’s description on corresponding page)
· An idealist, a social-democrat, a businessman and entrepreneur with ideas, and interesting –often inedited- solutions to social and economic problems.
· A software venture founder who created innovative farm programs and who lived up-close the plight of the American farmer.
· An international Engineer, who has carried out business -on behave of several American companies- in Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
· An MBA who understands commerce, technology, and trade issues.
· A Scientist with the academic background to grasp our planet’s problems.
· A foreign born (in a State with millions of such) who can communicate with his constituents in several international languages, including those spoken by Hispanics, by many retired Quebecois Canadian-Americans in my district, and by the estimated 200,000 Brazilians of Broward county.
· An under-represented Hispanic, in a country with 12% of such (Latinos represent 15% of the population here in Florida by official census, but they are actually 23% if you include the unrecognized –often not accounted for- illegal aliens). (There are less than 4% of Hispanics in Congress, but none in the Senate), and no Governors.
· An American who has had more exposure to America since the departure from Spain, 31 years ago, that many American-born will have in a lifetime. I have resided 10 years in PR, 7 years in NY, 5 years in CO, 4 years in SD, 2 years in WI, 2 years in KS, 1 year in MN, and 2 years in FL. Plus I have visited another 31 American States.
· A honest, valiantly confessed "non-religious" individual, unbiased, highly educated person, with "no strings attached" or favoritisms to pay back.
"JUAN XUNA FOR CONGRESS" COMMITTEE.
(please, excuse any possible semantic deviations from Shakespearean English)