Candidate, United States House of Representatives, South Carolina, District 5, 2016

Aide, Vice President Joe Biden, January 2009-July 2014

No caucus information on file.

Assistant to Athletic Director Ray Tanner, University of South Carolina

Assistant to President Harris Pastides, University of South Carolina

No organizational membership information on file.

Reason for Seeking Public Office:

Fran is running for Congress because Congress is broken. Members of Congress spend more time fighting with one another and scoring political points than working for us. That's never going to work.
Fran will bring the same values to Congress that have guided his whole life: hard work, team work, and commitment to a common goal. And that common goal is that we have to give people the tools they need to compete -- and win. That means we have to invest in education -- not cut it. It means we have to rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges, highways, ports and airports. And it means we need to be giving our men and women in uniform the support they need -- not punishing them with a senseless sequester that guts our military spending when we need it the most.
This last point is personal for Fran -- he has four brothers -- and two sisters-in-law -- who went to the Naval Academy and have served our nation.
Fran has competed his whole life. And he says it's time we had folks in Congress who know what it takes to compete. To paraphrase his father, it's time for America to get in the game.