Aftab Pureval, Congressional Candidate for OH-01 joins the podcast to talk about his story as the son of Tibetan refugees, career in law and as the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts, and his current run for Congress. Kevin and Tony record their thoughts as they watch #MarchForTheirLives live, on Trump’s tariff on China, picking John Bolton as the new National Security Advisor, and a tribute to the passing of the first hockey player of Asian descent to play in the NHL, Larry Kwong. Subscribe: Apple Podcast | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | TuneIn Support Us on PATREON A transcript (edited for clarity) of Kevin’s conversation with Aftab is below.  KEVIN: All right everybody on today’s podcast, we are absolutely thrilled to have Aftab Pureval on the Model Majority Podcast. Now for those of you who aren’t familiar with Aftab he is currently serving as the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts in Cincinnati, Ohio. He’s in fact the very first Democrat to hold this office in more than 100 years. He is currently running for Congress in Ohio’s first congressional district. Aftab thank you so much for taking the time to join me on the Model Majority Podcast today. AFTAB: Thank you so much for having me on. I’m a huge fan of podcasts and I have a pretty large districts, so I’m in the car a lot, so I love listening to a podcast while I’m traveling from one community to the next, so I’m thrilled. Thanks so much for having me.   KEVIN: Absolutely. We’re really glad you can be on this one, you know for your district’s constituents. Hopefully they get to hear this too! So we always like to start our conversation with our guest’s personal stories. So I love to get to know a little bit about where did you grow up, how did you grow up, what was your childhood like? AFTAB: Yeah, so the blueprint of my story is probably best told by just starting with my name. My full name is Aftab Karma Singh Pureval. And it reflects my multi-cultural heritage. My name Aftab is actually a Persian name. it means “sunshine”, but no one in my family is Persian. I’m actually the son of a refugee. My mother and grandparents are from Tibet, and they were forced to flee. And so they made their way through the Himalayas, through Nepal, and into India, where my mom and my grandparents settled. She grew up as a refugee. Against all odds, she got an education. She made it to college in Delhi, where she met my dad, who’s from Punjab on the Indian side. The young couple got married in India, and they decided they wanted to come to the new world. They wanted to come to the United States, so my dad looked at a map of our country and from sea to shining sea, from New York to California, this man literally could have gone anywhere, and he chose Beavercreek, Ohio! They immigrated in 1980. You know, they didn’t know anybody. They had no money. When I reflect back on the bravery, the courage that that must have taken, I’m just utterly blown away. I was born and raised in Beavercreek, Ohio, went to public schools. Then off to Ohio State, where I was actually the elected student body president. That was my first foray into politics. I moved down to Cincinnati, Ohio,