Adam Rueda for NJ-5

My Bio

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Hello! My name is Adam Rueda. I am a 28-year-old Bucknell graduate. I was raised in Andover Township (Sussex County). I grew up attending Catholic school at Reverend Brown grade & middle school and then Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta. At PJ, I was inducted into both National Honors Society and as a National Hispanic Scholar. I was an Ambassador within the Office of Admissions as well as the proud recipient of the Tri-County Scholarship, a need- and performance-based grant to attend private high school.

To attend Bucknell, I received the Diversity Scholarship, which was awarded to incoming freshman that were going to bring diversity of experience and fresh perspectives to campus. While at Bucknell, I was Vice President and Social Chair of my fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and proudly graduated as a First-Generation College Graduate. My entire life, including college, I have worked odd-jobs to survive.

My degree is a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a focus in Financial Management and Accounting. I am proud to have participated in Student Managed Investment Fund, a year long course where selected students invest and manage a portion of Bucknell's endowment. After graduation, I have gained life experience working as a Senior Financial Analyst at a commercial real estate brokerage in Morristown, as an Interior Design Salesperson in Short Hills & Manhattan, and as a DJ in NYC & Brooklyn.

We have created a new political party, greenparty2.0, that is led by Earth-first, health-first Gen-Z activists. We are focused on universal human rights, free speech, and pro-Earth, pro-health, pro-science policy. We are pro-choice and defend women's right to women's healthcare.We are champions of gun control as well as restoring true free speech in this country. This includes online, in the media and in the workplace.

As an Earth-first, health-first minded candidate, I am deeply concerned about the health and sustainability of our home planet, as well as our own bodies, and see vividly how the two are interwoven and inter-related. It is of upmost importance that we pay much closer attention to the chemicals and pollution we are releasing into the air, our waters, spraying on our crops, processing into our foods and feeding to our children and loved ones.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of lobbying and self-profiteering in our federal government, as many existing politicians are bought and paid-for by large corporations and interest groups. I am deeply concerned that career politicians in DC are enriching themselves by voting on behalf of their own financial holdings and interests, and not the constituents they are there to actually represent. Many existing politicians accept massive funding from the Fossil Fuel industry, and even more from AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby. I believe this lobbying and campaign financing shackles our representatives to advocating for their financiers and contributes massively to the problems we have with the war on science and participation in genocide.

My Key Issues