Elizabeth Emken

When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

I've got the conservative ideas for putting our country back on track.

We need new energy back in Washington.

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

The position of Autism Speaks has been for quite awhile that we need to find out what's happening. We know there's a genetic component, and there's an environmental trigger, and until we get to the bottom of what's happening, no one knows what causes autism.

What makes autism different is the history of neglect into the disorder. It's remained such a mystery that science has been very slow to address it.

Anyone that tells you what does or what doesn't cause autism is simply not basing that on facts.

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly half a century, is out of touch of what women and families are going through in California.

In California, we've had a series of millionaires and billionaires and CEOs and movie stars. We need to take a hard look at how we define legitimate and credible candidates.

I'm not a millionaire, a billionaire, a CEO, or a movie star.