announced that he was running for United States Congress in California's 30th congressional district, against long-time incumbent Democrat Brad Sherman. Despite the poor brand image of the Republican Party in Los Angeles and the local trend of moderate Republicans running as Independents, Kleinman ran in the Primary as a GOP candidate and as a self-described New Generation Republican. Pablo Kleinman's campaign as the first Hispanic Jewish candidate in a heavily Jewish and Hispanic district generated attention by the media in an area where Democrats have won every election for many years. As a political outsider, he encountered difficulty getting endorsements from members of the Republican establishment, although he did secure prominent endorsements from Conservative Talk Radio hosts as well as from well-known local community figures. Kleinman lost the June 3rd, 2014 primary. He is a former delegate and member of the executive committee of the California Republican Party. On June 7, 2016, he was elected to the central committee of the Los Angeles County Republican Party for a four-year (2016–2020) term. Kleinman signed the Madrid Charter, a document drafted by the conservative Spanish political party Vox that describes left-wing groups as enemies of Ibero-America involved in a "criminal project" that are "under the umbrella of the Cuban regime". Philanthropy Kleinman is vice-president and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hispanic Jewish Foundation in Spain, which is building the Hispanic-Jewish Museum in the Spanish capital. He is also the President of a sister charity based in Miami, called the Hispanic-Jewish Endowment. References External links Pablo Kleinman's Flickr photo page Diario de América - America's Daily (in Spanish) Urbita: I love this place! Revista El Medio Article from the newspaper O Globo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) about the foundational meeting of FidoNet in that country (May 20th, 1991, in Portuguese) 1971 births Living people American computer businesspeople American columnists American political commentators Jewish American journalists American male journalists American people of Argentine-Jewish descent Argentine emigrants to the United States Argentine Jews Argentine people of Polish-Jewish descent Businesspeople from Buenos Aires California Republicans FidoNet Alumni of London Business School HEC Paris alumni USC School of International Relations alumni 21st-century American Jews Signers of the Madrid Charter