Lisa Emory

#Braves Dominic Smith revealed tonight's game was extra emotional. He lost his mother to cancer two weeks ago. The fan who caught the walk-off grand slam ball returned it to Smith.

Now I know why everyone hates politicians. Let's start with some context. We announced our campaign March 3rd. In the last three weeks, we've been gaining really great traction. We've been hitting @RoKhanna hard on his ongoing stock trading activities, over $600m(!) in his nine years of being a public servant. In response: 1. Ro had three people reach out to me, offering that if I dropped out of this race he would endorse me in 2028 when he runs for President. When I said no the first two times, the third guy said if I don’t take this offer, I’ll be making an enemy of the President of the United States. That’s the kind of person Ro is. 2. After I turned down his offer, he did opposition research on me, which is fair. Then he used a shill reporter to write the totally unprofessional piece below. One thing I'll give credit to Ro's team for: they know how to drag someone through the mud. They did the same thing to legendary Congressman Mike Honda. 3. He then clipped parts of this article and sent it out to his email list, the fourth email about me in the last three weeks. Our team debated whether to respond to the article below at all, we wanted to avoid the Streisand effect. But we've decided to answer it, not to substantiate it or lend credibility to this "reporter", but because we have nothing to hide and we believe the voters deserve to know who they're voting for. So, here are the answers. Any concerned citizens or reporters who want to ask any follow up questions, feel free to call or text me directly: 408.761.3234. I have nothing to hide.  Let’s go back 11 years. Aaptiv is a company I started on my couch in 2015. In the next five years, over one million people across twenty countries paid for our health and wellness products. This success was due to a ton of work from the Aaptiv team, the investors, and even our members who took a leap of faith on a new product. Eventually, our customer acquisition costs didn't scale, so we ended up selling the company. I stepped down as CEO a few months before the M&A closed. Anyone that’s been part of a business of any size knows that lawsuits between companies are standard negotiating practice. It makes sense that Ro has no idea how this stuff works, never having run a business, and being a b-tier lawyer, telling everyone he was a Partner when he was actually Of Counsel.  Let’s go into the details mentioned in the article. Every item was ultimately settled no personal penalities: 1. “Court records show Agarwal — who previously lived in New York — personally confessed in 2020 to owing $2 million to Universal Music Group over a licensing dispute with the digital fitness company he founded, Aaptiv.“ Our health classes used popular music licensed from the majors, UMG, SME, and WMG. Negotiating with these folks is no joke. The reason I offered a personal guarantee is that UMG would offer Aaptiv better terms if I agreed to that; it's not something most founders are willing to do. UMG drove a hard bargain in our negotiations, and threatened me and Aaptiv with this lawsuit. Ultimately, we settled, with no personal penalties or incrimination, confirming that the case was only a negotiating ploy. 2. “Later filings show Agarwal failed to pay $300,000 of the settlement he agreed to a year before selling the company in 2021. “ Same as above, UMG driving a hard bargain using lawsuits as negotiation. Again, the only reason my name is there is because I offered a personal guarantee to help the company get a better deal. Again, as you can see in the documents we settled with no personal penalties or incrimination, again confirming that the case was only a negotiating ploy. 3. “Separately, the landlord of One World Trade Center in New York City sued Agarwal’s company in 2023 for $2 million over unpaid rent while he was CEO, though proceedings were discontinued the same year. “ We had a dispute with our landlord over rent during COVID. As stated, proceedings were discontinued with no penalties or liabilities. 4. “Court records show he was married for nearly 10 years until filing for divorce in 2025. Agarwal declined to comment on his marriage separation.” I’m not commenting on my family since this is the decency we all deserve. BTW - this wasn’t for lack of trying on part of the “reporter,” who made some seriously disgusting inquiries.  5. “The lies Ethan is spreading about Ro are sad, but also deeply hypocritical given his checkered financial and personal past,” Khanna’s spokesperson Sarah Drory told San José Spotlight. “We should have a conversation in our district and California about real ideas and plans to improve the lives of people in the community.” Sarah, I would absolutely love to have a conversation about the district, in our district. Unfortunately Ro has been playing Where In The World is Ro Khanna for the last five years. Any time you want to speak in the district Ro, let me know. In fact, let’s have the debate in Hindi or English. You probably don’t know this Ro, but 60% of our district speaks a different language from English at home. These issues are from over five years ago when I was a private citizen. Ro has been trading over $600,000,000 stock in the last 9 years, while being an elected public servant, railing daily against wealth inequality. There will probably be other stuff that comes out about my time as a private citizen. I’ve worked for two large multinational companies, I’ve started two companies worth over $100m+, I’ve hired and even had to let go dozens of people; anyone that is in the mix will have some mess on them. Here are some embarrassing things: A while back, I downloaded some porn, got accused of IP infringement by the production company and it was settled. When I was 20, I used a fake ID and got caught and did community service to pay my dues. As I said above, anyone should feel free to ask questions, I’m not hiding anything. Now it's your turn, Ro. Let’s start going into your past. Srilatha? Bring it Ro. You’ve got a hell of a lot more to lose than I do. Coward.