In 1999, David founded Hadley Partners, Inc, an investment banking firm for helping business owners to finance or sell their companies, and has assisted over 100 entrepreneurial companies. Previously, he was a managing director at investment-banking firm BT Alex Brown for mergers, acquisitions and financing. He was elected to the California Assembly in November 2014.
 
 
David was born and raised in Fullerton. He graduated from Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) and has a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics. He and his wife Suzanne have been married for 21 years and have 4 children. The oldest is a cadet at the US Military Academy at West Point.
David favors decreasing business regulations and reducing electricity rates. He opposes crony capitalists receiving subsidies, tax credits and carbon offsets at the expense of hard-working families. He favors a strict State spending cap and a “rainy day” reserve, reforming public employee retirement systems to reduce costs, eliminating the California high-speed rail project, and catching up with the maintenance backlog on repairing roads and other infrastructure.
 
He is concerned about the deterioration of education in California, and wants more parental educational options and choices, and ensuring that college students get the classes they need to graduate in 4 years. He wants to keep the Southern California Regional Occupational Center (SCROC) open. He sponsored a pending bill allowing children of military personnel to transfer to the school district of their choice.
 
He supports the death penalty and opposes the early release of violent convicts before they complete their sentences, and wants parole violators to be returned to prison and not to over-crowded county jails. He favors affordable healthcare programs to help cover high-risk patients and pre-existing conditions. He opposes Affirmative Action in college admissions, believing that racial categories are irrelevant in determining merit.
 
He supports State recognition of same-sex marriages. He is a personally opposed to abortion but believes, as a matter of law, that women and couples have the right to make their own decisions about pregnancies.