Clinton Brown
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Clinton Brown (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 54. He lost in the primary on March 3, 2020.
Brown completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Clinton Brown was born in Farmington, Missouri. He earned an undergraduate degree from Manhattanville College in August 2007 and a graduate degree from Norwich University in June 2009. His professional experience includes working as a real estate developer. Brown is associated with the California Association of Realtors.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2020
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 54
Incumbent Sydney Kamlager-Dove defeated Tracy Bernard Jones in the general election for California State Assembly District 54 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D) | 64.2 | 119,818 |
 | Tracy Bernard Jones (D)  | 35.8 | 66,915 | |
| Total votes: 186,733 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 54
Incumbent Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Tracy Bernard Jones defeated Glen Ratcliff and Clinton Brown in the primary for California State Assembly District 54 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D) | 56.7 | 64,620 |
| ✔ | | Tracy Bernard Jones (D) | 29.8 | 34,005 |
 | Glen Ratcliff (R) | 9.5 | 10,880 | |
 | Clinton Brown (D) | 4.0 | 4,513 | |
| Total votes: 114,018 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
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Ballotpedia survey responses
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Clinton Brown completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Brown's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As a real estate developer, I know that supply and demand is at the core of the housing and homeless crisis'. The solution is that we need to build more. We can no longer let the NIMBY's force policy decisions that cater to equity-rich single-family homeowners at the expense of the rest of us. The time has come to build more homes for Californians for all economic levels. The only way to do that is to ensure that zoning is a commonsense tool rather than a barrier to stop homebuilding. Are you ready to help create more home availability and prices that reflect a healthy market?
The homeless crisis is heartbreaking and frustrating because we have thrown so much money at the problem with little to show for it. Mental health problems, including addiction, are rampant in the chronic homeless population; how can an individual with severe problems like this make sound decisions to get help? They can't. As a society, we need to invest in mental health facilities and give these individuals a real choice to start a new life rather than bandaging the problem and hoping that it'll go away.
Housing and homelessness are two problems we can fix if we look at the data and follow the money. I believe we need to get to work pushing bold solutions and not letting the naysayers control the debate.- AB-1 declares the housing shortage is a State Emergency and outlines mandatory zoning reforms for the State of California to ensure that housing supply keeps up with demand.
- AB-2 declares the Homeless Crisis a State of Emergency and outlines state mandated processes and procedures to address homelessness; including funding for mental health facilities and treatment programs.
- The digital infrastructure of the future is not going to be fully realized if we don't create the hard infrastructure to foster that growth; roads, bridges, tunnels, desalinization plants, trains, highways, schools and public places.
We have a real homeless and housing crisis and we can solve the problem by looking at the facts and data and legislating our policy decisions based on objective findings and that will solve the problem.
Barack Obama because not only was he a great moral example for our country and he also was willing to compromise to achieve great legislative accomplishments that have changed this country forever.
I think it would have to be my own book because there is not just one political philosophy that encompasses a person entirely and I think that each of us have our own political philosophy as unique as our individual selfs. I will say that my government philosophy book is "Active Liberty" by former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
I think grit and reason are characteristics that would do well in this role because you can be as passionate and right about an issue all you want and you keep pushing that belief and then there comes a moment that you accept 90 percent of the progress and move-on from the obstacle.
Grit, figuring out processes and procedures and a respect for the office.
First and foremost is to uphold and honor the Constitution and to me that means taking this job as a job that is serious as it gets and it should be. No official action should benefit you personally and always have the highest ethics. I was taught that if it feels wrong it's probably wrong. And lastly, do your job and legislate. Learn the rules, press yourself and your colleagues and get results.
I promised to serve 1 term and I did; and while I was there I did everything I could to legislate bold solutions to fix the homeless and housing crisis.
September 11th and I was 15 years old and I remember going on the Internet at school and seeing images of the towers in flames and I thought to myself that this country will never be the same and it hasn't.
I mowed lawns from the time I was 12 years old until 15 years old and built a pretty good seasonal business doing it. Plus, I got a nice tan all summer.
The Mueller Report - Finally, I was part of the 1% - the Americans who read it.
"Riding Roads" - Dustin Lynch
Where do I start? I think the biggest struggle was getting through a really dark period with my family after my dad's suicide in 2008. However, that experience has shaped me for the better and so now it's just one of the times in life and thankfully time has healed our family.
The Senate is trying to pass meaningful housing reform and the Assembly is lacking the political will to do so. Also, I believe in working with everyone and anyone who can add substantive solutions to fix the problem and that includes anyone and everyone serving in the Assembly.
Yes,. I was a Congressional Page in the U.S. House of Representatives during my junior year of high school and I still remember the processes of government and the importance of engaging in that process while also pushing for change. The pages spent more time on the House Floor than most of legislators and so that kind of up-close training is really impactful to a young mind and there's nothing like walking into the U.S. House of Representatives and so I'll be just fine walking into California's Assembly.
The housing and homeless crisis! I sound like a broken record and it's truly from a place of heart and resolve to get things done. It's really like all the elected officials have thrown up their hands and said to hell with it and that is not how California handles things, alone Americans. This is a state of bold solutions and that's what we need or we continue down a path of being the richest and poorest state and the most unequal economically.
The ideal scenario in my mind is a governor who leads with bold ideas that are the right thing to do (not talking political) and then uses that power to prod the legislature to do their job and legislate. The governor should call out members who do not go to Committee meetings, miss votes and spend their time fundraising rather than doing the people's business. They don't call it a bully pulpit for no reason. I'm not talking about personal insults and I'm talking about verifiable evidence in the records of our open government. The homeless and housing crisis deserve full-on attention until the job is done.
Absolutely! In fact, I think that is what is missing today in our local, state and national government. There's nothing wrong being hard on your political component until that impacts your duty to the people to legislate and solve problems. At the end of the day we are all on this ship together and understanding, in my view, can bridge differences and get us places we never thought we could go.
My top 3 committees goals, in my view, reflect the top priorities of the district. Housing and Community Development, Public Safety and Transportation.
No, I don't plan on serving more than one 2 year term and would like to focus all my efforts on solving problems and not spending my time dialing for dollars or at fundraisers. I want to serve my community and go back to my life.
No, I will be modeling myself off the values I grew up with and the respect I have for this country and the awesome privilege it will be to serve the district, state and Constitution. I respect legislators that can take hard votes to do the right thing such as Claire McCaskill and John McCain.
Only if I can get elected to serve 1 term and move-on.
I think that individual stories are so important to understand the issues impacting the district on a larger level and a representative government should be in-tune to that. The saddest thing I see is when people give up on government because they don't know how to navigate it or they don't believe government will listen. It's that person that took off work early to attend a Neighborhood Council meeting and then witness them being not heard and being referred to this Committee or that Committee. That's heartbreaking to me because it deters a potentially talented person from engaging with their government to solve problems and ultimately hurts the community by making government only effective for those who have the tenacity to get through the processes. We just need to care about solving people's problems as if they are our own and I believe that will make all the difference.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 29, 2020
Current members of the California State Assembly
Leadership
Majority Leader:Cecilia Aguiar-Curry
Minority Leader:James Gallagher
Representatives
District 1
Heather Hadwick (R)
District 2
Chris Rogers (D)
District 3
James Gallagher (R)
District 4
District 5
Joe Patterson (R)
District 6
Maggy Krell (D)
District 7
Josh Hoover (R)
District 8
David Tangipa (R)
District 9
Heath Flora (R)
District 10
Stephanie Nguyen (D)
District 11
Lori Wilson (D)
District 12
Damon Connolly (D)
District 13
Rhodesia Ransom (D)
District 14
Buffy Wicks (D)
District 15
District 16
District 17
Matt Haney (D)
District 18
Mia Bonta (D)
District 19
District 20
Liz Ortega (D)
District 21
Diane Papan (D)
District 22
Juan Alanis (R)
District 23
Marc Berman (D)
District 24
Alex Lee (D)
District 25
Ash Kalra (D)
District 26
Patrick Ahrens (D)
District 27
Esmeralda Soria (D)
District 28
Gail Pellerin (D)
District 29
Robert Rivas (D)
District 30
Dawn Addis (D)
District 31
Joaquin Arambula (D)
District 32
Stan Ellis (R)
District 33
Alexandra Macedo (R)
District 34
Tom Lackey (R)
District 35
Jasmeet Bains (D)
District 36
Jeff Gonzalez (R)
District 37
Gregg Hart (D)
District 38
Steve Bennett (D)
District 39
Juan Carrillo (D)
District 40
Pilar Schiavo (D)
District 41
John Harabedian (D)
District 42
Jacqui Irwin (D)
District 43
District 44
Nick Schultz (D)
District 45
James Ramos (D)
District 46
Jesse Gabriel (D)
District 47
Greg Wallis (R)
District 48
Blanca Rubio (D)
District 49
Mike Fong (D)
District 50
Robert Garcia (D)
District 51
Rick Zbur (D)
District 52
Jessica Caloza (D)
District 53
District 54
Mark Gonzalez (D)
District 55
Isaac Bryan (D)
District 56
Lisa Calderon (D)
District 57
Sade Elhawary (D)
District 58
Leticia Castillo (R)
District 59
Phillip Chen (R)
District 60
Corey Jackson (D)
District 61
Tina McKinnor (D)
District 62
Jose Solache (D)
District 63
Natasha Johnson (R)
District 64
Blanca Pacheco (D)
District 65
Mike Gipson (D)
District 66
Al Muratsuchi (D)
District 67
District 68
Avelino Valencia (D)
District 69
Josh Lowenthal (D)
District 70
Tri Ta (R)
District 71
Kate Sanchez (R)
District 72
Diane Dixon (R)
District 73
District 74
Laurie Davies (R)
District 75
Carl DeMaio (R)
District 76
Darshana Patel (D)
District 77
Tasha Horvath (D)
District 78
Christopher Ward (D)
District 79
District 80
David Alvarez (D)
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