Eleassia Davis (Mayor of Tracy, California, candidate 2024)

Eleassia Davis

Nonpartisan

Candidate, Mayor of Tracy

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 5, 2024

Education

Associate

San Joaquin Delta College

Other

Merritt College

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Army

Personal

Religion

Christian

Profession

Business owner

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Eleassia Davis ran for election to the Mayor of Tracy in California. She was on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.^[source]

Davis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Eleassia Davis provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 8, 2024:

• Other: Merritt College
• Associate: San Joaquin Delta College
• Military service: United States Army
• Gender: Female
• Religion: Christian
• Profession: Business Owner
• Prior offices held:
  • Council Member (2020-Prsnt)
• Incumbent officeholder: No
• Campaign slogan: #CommunityFirst
• Campaign website
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• Campaign YouTube video

Elections

General election

General election for Mayor of Tracy

Dan Arriola, Eleassia Davis, and Mary Mitracos ran in the general election for Mayor of Tracy on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate
		Dan Arriola (Nonpartisan)
		Eleassia Davis (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Mary Mitracos (Nonpartisan)

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Endorsements

Davis received the following endorsements.

• Robert Rickman (Nonpartisan) -

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Eleassia Davis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Davis' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

As a parent of four children who all grew up in Tracy, former educator, and military veteran, I understand what it means to serve selflessly, make tough choices, and stand on principle even in adversity. My commitment to putting country and community first has driven my leadership in Tracy, with safety as a top priority.

I led the charge to prohibit encampments in all Tracy parks, ensuring safer public spaces. I also brought Tracy's first ambulance service to our community and am working diligently to establish a trauma-ready hospital, providing crucial medical care close to home. For too long, real estate developers have influenced elected officials through campaign contributions, resulting in preferential treatment that benefits developers but harms Tracy residents. This prioritization of special interest groups over our city's infrastructure, public safety, and amenities must stop. My "Community First" approach prioritizes Tracy residents. I will support existing businesses and attract new ones with fiscally conservative policies that streamline city processes. My top priorities include crime reduction, improved infrastructure, a thriving local economy, and family friendly amenities. I am honored to have the endorsement of former Tracy Mayor and recently reelected County Supervisor Robert Rickman. His support is a testament to my ability to lead Tracy as the next Mayor.

Join me in building a safer, stronger, and more vibrant Tracy.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Keeping the public safe is my primary responsibility, which is why I focused my first term on creating legislation that prohibited encampments in our public parks, protecting our children. I will continue to support policies that equip our law enforcement, and our fire fighters with the tools and resources they need in order to keep our community safe. This means ensuring that parks remain encampment free, and we impose more proactive enforcement to crack down on aggressive panhandling, nuisance loitering, reckless driving, and retail theft that is hurting our retailers. Tracy will be the safest city in San Joaquin County, because criminals will know that our PD is proactive, and have the full support of its Mayor to enforce the laws.
• I believe in putting the community-first. Tracy is the second largest city in San Joaquin County, paying some of the highest taxes, however, we have the worst infrastructure, the least amenities and critical resources. It's time to put an end to practices that prioritize special interest over our community's interest. Under my leadership, developers will build infrastructure, schools and amenities first or concurrently with all new development. A growing city of our size should have pristinely maintained streets, roads, and interchanges; our parks should be well-kept and offer all-ability access and activities; Tracy should have multiple transportation options, including Valley Link, and a strong rideshare program.
• As Mayor, I will continue to work diligently to bring community-desired businesses, amenities, and resources that a growing city deserves. I fought to put Legacy Fields back on the priority list and ensured that the fields, and parking lots completed. I will make sure that the long overdue aquatic center is a top priority; I will streamline processes at City Hall, and fight for creative incentives, that keep taxes low to help attract new businesses. I will personally be proactive in pursuit of specialty grocers, family entertainment, a police substation in South Tracy, a trauma-ready hospital; help reimagine West Valley Mall to attract high-end retail shopping so that we can spend our hard-earned money locally instead of over the hill.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I am passionate about good policies and practices that protect our community, grow opportunities for our community, and make residents and businesses feel good about being a part of Tracy. I am passionate about being a public servant of integrity, whose intentions to serve the highest good of the constituency, is pure. I love being present, actively involved and engaged with everyone-from the Fortune 500 CEOs to the young student pursuing her dreams, to the Mom and Pops business owners that give our town character. As a mother, a former educator and veteran, I am passionate about protecting our community, especially keeping our children safe; I am passionate about supporting our police, firefighters and honoring our military community.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
by Robert Fulghum. Teaching is a noble, under appreciated profession, and I believe that the lessons I learned in my youth are the lessons that are most relevant to the way I lead in my personal life, and public service. Among many valuable lessons, as young children, we are taught to "do unto others as you would have them do to you". We are taught to be patient, be kind, be honest, fair, respectful, thoughtful, to share, be tolerant, and to wait our turns-I wouldn't be the person I am today had I not learned these basic lessons early in life-a credit to the early childhood educators in my life.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Elected officials should have pure intentions to serve for the highest good of those being served. As an Army veteran, selfless service is engrained in me. An elected official should have a genuine heart for serving the community, and be intricately involved in the community in away that people know you care for them, year round, not during election season. Those who desire to be politicians are not the same as those of us who desire to be public servants. Honesty, integrity, fairness, kindness are all characteristics an elected official should have-but also tough skin to deal with those who do not posess those characteristics.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

I serve with humility and a heart of service. I truly desire to make my community a better place, which is why I was a community advocate and organizer long before running for office. I love being among the people, celebrating their successes and supporting them thorugh challenges. I truly enjoy creating policies that will leave a positive, lasting legacy for our children and our children's children.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

I believe the core responsibilities of an elected official are to put the best interest of the community first; to keep the community safe, and to actively listen to the community's needs, and wants, deliver on the promises you've made and always seek out opportunities that will enhance the quality of life for the constituency.

What is your favorite book? Why?

The Bible...no matter how many times I read it, I always learn something new, and gain new insight and perspective. It's fascinating because it almost feels like as I get older, the Bible grows with me, revealing things once I have the experiences, wisdom and capacity to better understand the lessons it's trying to teach me.

A mayor is a leader in his or her city. What does that mean to you?

In my City, being a leader to me means putting the needs of the community first. Being a leader means leading in a way that inspires others to trust and willingly follow your lead. A leader can foster a cohesive council, even when perspectives are different. A leader does not demand but earns the respect and reverence of those being led. A leader will serve with integrity, and do the right thing for his community, even when the choice is unpopular.

If the mayor in your city is a member of the city council and there's a city manager appointed to handle the day-to-day administration of the city government, what do you believe should be the mayor's top priority in office?

The Mayor's top priority should be making sure that there is a unified council

What do you love most about your city?

I love the small-town feel of my city. Although it's growing, it still has this nostalgic-like atmosphere that makes it feel small, and neighborly in most parts of town. I love how our community is beautifully diverse and continues traditions like the the Christmas Parade, the 4th of July Parade, the Festa, crab feed fundraisers, Mexican Independence Day, MLK Breakfast, Holi, Diwali, and so many other artistic and cultural events that honor our past, while making space for new traditions.

What do you perceive to be your city's greatest challenges over the next decade?

I perceive the city's biggest challenges over the next decade to be unfair campaign practices. Big corporations who seek to control council members for their bidding are bankrolling candidate campaigns, whisper campaigns, and untraceable disinformation campaigns to influence the outcome of our elections. It's been happening for a long time in Tracy. Developers continue to handpick candidates, fund their campaigns and lifestyles in exchange for deferring promised infrastructural improvements, schools, and amenities. Too many residents are working long hours to be aware of who is running for office, and elections are being won by those who have the biggest campaign funds, instead of those who truly have the heart to serve the community. These practices will suppress true democracy in Tracy and if not stopped, will infiltrate all San Joaquin County-making the outcome of our elections predictable based on which candidates are bought and paid for by special interest PACS and corporations. Progress in Tracy has not been determined by the Council or staff, it has been dictated by developers who have contributed significantly to campaigns.

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the mayor's office and law enforcement?

The mayor's office should have a very strong relationship with law enforcement, set the tone for how criminality will be dealth with by the force. I am zero-tolerance for crime candidate, and if elected Mayor, PD will be empowered to enforce the laws, and I will back them 100%

What are your views on financial transparency and government accountability?

Taxpayers deserve to know how the government is spending their money and they deserve to hold the government accountable when they believe that they are not being served in a way that reflects their values and expectations.

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