Marena Lin for Congress, CA-32

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Daughter of immigrants, climate scientist, union organizer, public health software engineer running to replace Brad Sherman in CA-32 www.marenalinforcongress.com

Sherman paid his lowest-paid staffer $42K in 2025, less than 96% of the sitting House members’ offices (425 shown with a full year of 2025 data)
Sherman’s peak year of mail is in the top 1% of all House offices during the 2016-2025 Trump era.
Even Matt Gaetz at $25K on mail and $75K median staffer wage.
Even Boebert pays $115K median staffer wage and spends $58K on mail.
Marjorie Taylor Green pays her staff more at $96K and spends $42K on mail.
Scatterplot of fulltime median constituent services member wage versus average money spent on paper mail (2016-2025). Every dot is a House office with at least a full year of data. Congressman Sherman is exceptional in paying $188K in mail (per year average) while only offering a $50,500 median staff salary (most recent year). He is among the highest spenders on paper mail and lowest payers of salary.
Card saying “Recently, I compared his taxpayer budget to AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley. That was unfair. I should have compared him to everyone.”
Card stating “I owe Congressman Sherman an apology.”
Analytics panel for the Anna Wilding called me a Chinese spy Reddit post circling the international views bar chart percentage with “SPIES” scrawled across
A friend’s mom lost $400K in crypto through a romance scam at her most vulnerable
Marena Lin inside an inflatable axolotl costume
Photo of me with a safety vest and white baseball cap. My name Marena Lin is on my outfit 9 times
Video on the Marena Lin for Congress website, which offers data viz for census data and the effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on CA-32. The candidate built this site herself with $0. Imagine what she can do if you send her to Congress.
Video of two Shiba Inus, one a congressional candidate Marena Lin for CA-32, and another, her constituent, discussing what Prop 50 has done and the really useful new tool to figure out the district for any address in CA.
Video about responsibilities of congresspeople in advocating for constituents in casework. AOC and Ilhan Omar have risen to the occasion in supporting constituents. If Brad Sherman has been doing the same over the past 28 years, his constituents deserve to know.
Explainer video on how filing fees are calculated. For the House of Representatives, the filing fee is 1%, so $1740. To offset the fee with signatures, I’d need 1714 signatures.
Marena Lin’s 32nd congressional district campaign intro video in Urdu-Hindi
Campaign video for Marena Lin for Congress 2026 in Spanish
protest sign that reads: No Human is Illegal, Abolish ICE
Graph for CA-32 heads of households showing 20.2% have graduate degrees, 30.6% have bachelor’s degrees, 25.3% have some college, and 15.1% have completed high school, and 8.9% have no diploma.
Treemap showing that 47.1% of district 32 renters are ages 25-44, 18% are ages 45-54, 15.7% are 65+, and 14.5% are 55-64. 4.6% are ages 15-24.