The Silicon Valley congressional race is getting ugly
The primary isn’t until early June, but the CA-17 race between five-term incumbent Ro Khanna and tech founder Ethan Agarwal is already getting nasty. Agarwal entered the race in March, backed by a roster of prominent tech billionaires largely in response to Khanna’s public support for a proposed California ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% tax on residents worth more than $1 billion. Agarwal, for his part, has been going after Khanna by primarily citing his stock trades while in office. Now newsrooms covering the race have been receiving anonymous packages of digital court documents detailing Agarwal’s legal past. The file includes a $683,000 personal judgment against him after he stopped making payments on a $2 million copyright settlement with Universal…
