Congressman Eric Swalwell
Ben Therriault
TWO SPEAKERS
Thursday, August 26, 2021
7:00 PM Congressman Eric Swalwell
6:00 PM Ben Therriault, Candidate for Sheriff
Please RSVP president@srvdems.org
We are honored to have Congressman Eric Swalwell speak to us on Thursday, August 26. He is one of our favorite congressmen, as he is the Representative for more than one half of our SRVDC club members. The SRVDC club supported his campaign to run for Congress, District 15, back in 2012 and we were ecstatic that he won. He now serves on many important committees including the Judiciary Committee, the Intelligence Committee and the Homeland Security Committee. And, while serving on the Homeland Security Committee in his first term, he led a successful effort opposing a TSA proposal to allow certain knives aboard airplanes and advocated for enhancing airport perimeter security with innovative technological solutions.
This past year has been an emotional upheaval, and what stands out as an honor was when Eric was tapped to serve as an Impeachment manager.
Congressman Swalwell is also a leader in the House, serving as co-chair of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which makes committee assignments and sets the caucus’ policy agenda. He also founded and is chairman emeritus of Future Forum, a group of almost 50 young Democratic Members of Congress focused on issues and opportunities for millennial Americans including student loan debt and home ownership.
Our second speaker is Ben Therriault who was born and raised in Western Montana. Ben spent the formative years of his life on the Flathead Indian Reservation where his father was a Tribal Chairman. Ben enlisted in the United States Air Force when he was 17 years old where he served as a military policeman for 6 years. He is a veteran of the Iraq War where he was awarded several medals for his service until he was honorably discharged. Ben has been a Richmond Police Officer for almost 13 years where he has served in a variety of assignments most recently as a Gang Detective. He lived in Richmond for over 10 years while serving as a police officer as part of a program that had cops living in low income housing. Ben still serves on several non profit boards that directly serve the Richmond community, has a daughter who is 6 and currently works as a patrol officer overnight on weekends.
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Congressman Eric Swalwell
Ben Therriault
Congressman Swalwell is also a leader in the House, serving as co-chair of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which makes committee assignments and sets the caucus’ policy agenda. He also founded and is chairman emeritus of Future Forum, a group of almost 50 young Democratic Members of Congress focused on issues and opportunities for millennial Americans including student loan debt and home ownership.
Our second speaker is Ben Therriault who was born and raised in Western Montana. Ben spent the formative years of his life on the Flathead Indian Reservation where his father was a Tribal Chairman. Ben enlisted in the United States Air Force when he was 17 years old where he served as a military policeman for 6 years. He is a veteran of the Iraq War where he was awarded several medals for his service until he was honorably discharged. Ben has been a Richmond Police Officer for almost 13 years where he has served in a variety of assignments most recently as a Gang Detective. He lived in Richmond for over 10 years while serving as a police officer as part of a program that had cops living in low income housing. Ben still serves on several non profit boards that directly serve the Richmond community, has a daughter who is 6 and currently works as a patrol officer overnight on weekends.
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