Bhumitra bases US Senate run on business, world experience

Rolling Hills businessman Arun Bhumitra with presidential candidate Donald Trump at the 2016 Republican convention, where Bhumitra was a California delegate. Easy Reader file photo

 

In the mid-1970s, when he was 25, Arun Bhumitra left a coveted managerial job at the Bombay Marine shipyard for New York City, where he spent the first week sleeping in Central Park. He soon used his mechanical engineering degree to land a job with Northrop in Torrance. In the mid-1980s, he left his well paying Northrop job to sell cell phones that were the size of small toasters and cost $4,000. Over the next two decades, he opened over 200 cell phone stores in 12 states.

Now, the Rolling Hills resident is stepping back from his retail and real estate businesses to run for U.S. Senate. Among the 32 other Senate candidates on the June 5 primary ballot are incumbent Diane Feinstein and termed out California State Senator Kevin DeLeon.

“I’m running because this country has been good to me and I’m ready to give back. I’m also running because neither of the two leading candidates have business or international experience,” he said.

Bhumitra was a California delegate pledged to Donald Trump at the 2016 Republican Convention. That year he told Peninsula magazine, “I saw what Trump did on the Riverside South waterfront project in New York. He stood up to the bureaucrats. He pacified the unions and the mafia and helped resurrect New York City.”

Today, he says of Trump, “If you don’t understand business, you don’t understand what a great job he is doing.”

But he’s not in lockstep with the President. “I’d ban assault rifles. There’s no place for them in a civilized society,” he said.

On immigration, the once illegal immigrant said, “We need immigrants, we need farm workers, information workers, doctors. And we need to legalize DACA immigrants.”’

Bhumitra is endorsed by former Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe and Rolling Hills Mayor  Jeff Pieper and has served on U.S. business advisory commissions under four presidents.

For more about his positions, visit ArunBhumitraForUSSenate.com.

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