Background
Kwasman was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona.
Kwasman was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona.
Tulane University; George Mason University.
Kwasman ran unsuccessfully for United States. Congress in 2014. He lives in Oro Valley, Arizona. He earned his bachelor"s degree (Cum Laude) from Tulane University and master"s degree in Economics from George Mason University.
Kwasman worked at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies and interned on Capitol Hill for former Congressman Jim Kolbe.
Kwasman worked in the United Kingdom for the Research and Development Corporation, assisting in their research of Islamic terrorism while studying at the Institute for Economics and, a study abroad program in Cambridge, England. In 2009, Kwasman founded his own economic consulting firm advising both private companies and political clients.
Kwasman was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2012. He served as the Vice Chairman on the Ways and Means Committee and also sat on the Appropriations and Commerce Committees.
2014 congressional campaign
In 2014, Kwasman sought the Republican nomination for United States. Congress in Arizona"s 1st congressional district.
He was defeated in the primary by Andy Tobin and Gary Kiehne. Illegal Migrant/Business Incident
In 2014, Kwasman was attending a morning protest over the expected arrival of illegal migrant children being trafficked to a shelter near Oracle, Arizona. Kwasman spoke with a local reporter and urged authorities to enforce the law.
He tweeted from the scene, "Business coming in.
This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law." He included a photo of the back of a yellow school bus in the tweet as he left the scene to travel to Phoenix for a media interview.
A Phoenix reporter later revealed to Kwasman that the school bus in his tweet was carrying local children on the way to a Young Men’s Christian Association camp. Kwasman told the reporter that he had looked into the faces of the firghtened immigrant children on the business
"I was able to actually see some of the children in the buses and the fear on their faces," said Kwasman.
"This is not compassion."
News reporter Brahm Resnik replied, "You know that was a bus with Young Men’s Christian Association kids?"
Kwasman, realizing he had been caught in error, said, "They were sad, too. Oklahoma, I apologize. I didn"t know. I was leaving when I saw them.
So if that was a school business
People are not happy down the line. That"s an error by medical "
In August 2014, Kwasman revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer a year prior.