Dr. Richard Pan is the Congressman-elect for California’s 6th Congressional District, defeating Rep. Kevin Kiley and sending a pediatrician to Washington in one of the most closely watched House races in the country. As a pediatrician, Dr. Pan is one of 314 Action’s Guardians of Public Health candidates. In response, 314 Action President Shaughnessy Naughton released the following statement:
“The pediatrician who beat RFK Jr. in California is taking that fight to Washington,” said Shaughnessy Naughton, President of 314 Action. “Dr. Richard Pan wrote the strongest vaccine laws in the country, protected California kids through measles outbreaks and took on RFK Jr. twice. He won both times. Kevin Kiley spent his time in Congress voting to cut Medicaid and backing Donald Trump’s agenda.”
“With RFK Jr. running the nation’s health agencies and the worst measles outbreaks in more than 35 years, Americans need experienced leaders like Dr. Richard Pan in Congress to protect Sacramento families and get this public health crisis under control. He will not allow Trump and RFK Jr. to continue to run amok, and he will hold this administration accountable for every family it puts at risk.”
314 Action Fund went all in for Dr. Pan, launching the first-of-its-kind Dr. Richard Pan Stop RFK Jr. Committee and backed his campaign with the “Stop RFK Jr.” broadcast ad, an investment that totaled $1.5 million across the Joint Fundraising Committee and Super PAC spending in the primary and poured an additional $3.65 million, our largest commitment to any candidate in the general election cycle. Dr. Pan joins the growing Congressional Democratic Doctors’ Caucus as the first male pediatrician elected to Congress.
Dr. Pan is a pediatrician, UC Davis professor and former California state senator who teaches health policy at UC Davis. He holds a BA in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University, an MD from the University of Pittsburgh and an MPH from Harvard University. As chair of the Senate Health Committee, he led California’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act, helped cut the state’s uninsured rate by two-thirds and authored California’s landmark vaccination laws.