Ruben Kihuen

Ruben Kihuen (2012)

Ruben Kihuen (born April 25, 1980 in Guadalajara , Mexico ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . Since January 3, 2017, he has represented the state of Nevada in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1988 Ruben Kihuen and his family came to the United States, where they first settled in Orange County , California . In the 1990s they moved to Las Vegas , Nevada, where Kihuen still lives today. He graduated from High School and the Community College of Southern Nevada . He also studied education at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas until 2004 . He later studied yet at the University of Oklahoma , the specialist management science . Professionally, he is an academic advisor to the Community College of Southern Nevada and has also been a director or board member of the Ramirez Group since 2014 .

Kihuen has held a number of local Democratic Party offices and has supported the candidacies of some Democrats for Congress or for governor at the state and federal levels . Among these were, among others, US Senator Harry Reid and the governor of Virginia , Mark Warner . Between 2006 and 2010, Kihuen was a member of the Nevada Assembly ; since 2011 he has been a member of the State Senate . There he held the office of Majority Whip until 2014 . After that he was Minority Whip .

In the 2016 election , Kihuen was elected to the US House of Representatives in Nevada's fourth congressional electoral district in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Republican Cresent Hardy , whom he defeated in the election, on January 3, 2017 .

In December 2017, a member of his campaign team charged him with sexual harassment . In a statement, his office said he apologized for any incidents but could not clearly recall the situations. The leader of the Democratic group in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi , therefore asked him to resign in mid-December 2017, Kihuen announced that she would not run again in the 2018 election, but refused to step down.

Web links

• Ruben Kihuen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Biography at Vote Smart
• Ruben Kihuen at Ballotpedia (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ Kate Nocera, Tarini Parti: She Says She Quit Her Campaign Job After He Harassed Her. Now He's In Congress. In: BuzzFeed , December 1, 2017.
2. ↑ Kate Nocera, Tarini Parti: Nancy Pelosi Calls On Rep. Ruben Kihuen To Resign Following Sexual Harassment Allegations. In: BuzzFeed , December 2, 2017.
3. ^ Victor Joecks: Kihuen faces credible claims of sexual harassment. He still has nothing to lose by running for reelection. In: Las Vegas Review Journal , March 10, 2018.