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Character Name: Ramon Castillo
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 48
Character Height: 5'8
Character Weight: 140 lb
Character Position/Role/Job: US Congressman from California's 21st District (D-Delano)
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Character State of Origin: California
Character State of Residence: California
Character Party Affiliation: Democrat
Main Strengths: Masterful negotiator, appeals strongly to working class people, natural leader
Main Weaknesses: Susceptible to bribery and corruption, feels conflicted about various interests he must serve, drifting away from the Democratic party leadership
Biography: (Minimum 2-3 paragraphs)
Castillo was born in Bakersfield, a large agricultural town in California's Central Valley, on February 4th 1972. His parents were undocumented agricultural workers who soon moved to the smaller agricultural city of Delano after immigration authorities cracked down on their previous worksite. Castillo was raised on a large farm, attending school during some months and working the fields when needed. He graduated high school and tried to join the military but was rejected due to having sub-par vision and not being adequately fit.
He took a job on a grape farm in Northern California, where he suffered great mistreatment at the hands of his employer. Agitated successfully by the legendary labor organizer Antonio Corado Jr, Castillo began to co-organize for better conditions. He rose to great prominence in the agricultural organizing community, giving speeches across the Central Valley and working on union campaigns, and in February of 2003 organized an action against the Iraq war with thousands of farm workers, many of whom had military family. Later that year he was elected as union president of the International Agricultural Union (IAU).
He served as union president until 2012, when after urged by his union peers, he ran for Congress. He faced a tough election in what was a more conservative district, but managed to garner strong support from the Latino community and even from the more conservative working class white community. Winning on an economically populist and socially libertarian message, he joined the freshman class of 2012 as an organizer at heart, where he quickly learned how to apply his masterful negotiation skills to securing legislative improvements for his district. Castillo gained great respect from his congressional peers for his negotiating expertise and often broke partisan gridlock by finding a middle ground that still guaranteed economic security to the people of his district.
Castillo has quietly served in Congress since then, gaining seniority and earning the respect of members from both parties. But in a time of increased polarization and shifting demographics, Castillo has ambitions of becoming a more mainstream populist figure in American politics.
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