Jason Kishineff
Jason Kishineff (independent) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 4th Congressional District. He lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.
Kishineff completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Kishineff was a Green Party candidate for California's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House in 2018. Kishineff lost the primary on June 5, 2018.
Biography
Jason Kishineff was born in Los Angeles, California. Kishineff's career experience includes working as an activist, homemaker, and pharmacy technician.[1] He has been affiliated with the Napa Institute For Peace, Racial Justice For Vallejo, Napa County Progressive Alliance, Frontline Activists Movement, Napa Climate Now, and No Coal In Vallejo.[2]
Elections
2022
See also: California's 4th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 4
Incumbent Mike Thompson defeated Matt Brock in the general election for U.S. House California District 4 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mike Thompson (D) | 67.8 | 176,900 |
 | Matt Brock (R) | 32.2 | 84,007 | |
| Total votes: 260,907 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 4
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 4 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Thompson (D) | 66.2 | 115,041 |
| ✔ | | Matt Brock (R) | 16.3 | 28,260 |
 | Scott Giblin (R) | 9.7 | 16,914 | |
 | Andrew Engdahl (D) | 5.0 | 8,634 | |
 | Jason Kishineff (Independent) | 1.4 | 2,477 | |
| Jimih Jones (R) | 1.4 | 2,363 | ||
| Seth Newman (No party preference) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 15 | ||
| Total votes: 173,704 | |||
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2020
See also: California's 5th Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 5
Incumbent Mike Thompson defeated Scott Giblin in the general election for U.S. House California District 5 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Thompson (D) | 76.1 | 271,233 |
| Scott Giblin (R) | 23.9 | 85,227 | |
| Total votes: 356,460 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 5
Incumbent Mike Thompson and Scott Giblin defeated John Wesley Tyler and Jason Kishineff in the primary for U.S. House California District 5 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Thompson (D) | 67.5 | 146,980 |
| ✔ | | Scott Giblin (R) | 20.2 | 43,987 |
 | John Wesley Tyler (D) | 9.5 | 20,725 | |
| Jason Kishineff (D) | 2.7 | 5,928 | |
| Total votes: 217,620 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 5
Incumbent Mike Thompson defeated Anthony Mills in the general election for U.S. House California District 5 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Thompson (D) | 78.9 | 205,860 |
| Anthony Mills (Independent) | 21.1 | 55,158 | ||
| Total votes: 261,018 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 5
Incumbent Mike Thompson and Anthony Mills defeated Nils Palsson and Jason Kishineff in the primary for U.S. House California District 5 on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Thompson (D) | 79.3 | 121,428 |
| ✔ | Anthony Mills (Independent) | 8.8 | 13,538 | |
 | Nils Palsson (Independent) | 8.3 | 12,652 | |
| Jason Kishineff (G) | 3.6 | 5,458 | |
| Total votes: 153,076 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Doug Van Raam (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jason Kishineff completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kishineff's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I'm running for Congress because business as usual politics are destroying all of us and our planet. Both parties are complicit, and as they block all good policy unless it rewards their corporate masters, they bicker and finger point, which contributes to the rest of us fighting with each other instead of the billionaire owned system. Every aspect of our system seems to be breaking down, and we need people to step up and change it.
- Corporations aren't people. Money isn't speech. We need to end Citizen's United and break up many big corporations.
- It is time to end US military adventurism. We must oppose sanctions and other types of warfare and bring our troops home. It's also time to end violence at our border crossings and to implement common sense policing reforms that would save a lot of lives, such as ending qualified immunity and social worker accompaniments on some calls.
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Campaign website
Jason Kishineff's campaign website stated the following:
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Medicare For All I believe that healthcare is a human right. By cutting out the middleman (private insurance companies) and negotiating the prices of drugs, we can provide expanded healthcare to everyone, and save money doing it.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt said “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country”. I believe in indexing the minimum wage to the cost of living, so that it is always a livable wage.
I oppose all wars, military interventions and sanctions except under the gravest of circumstances. The reality is that our country fights wars to increase the profits of the very wealthy and frequently uses the excuse of helping people to manufacture consent. And yet those people are usually left worse off than before. Instead I believe we can use the US military to rebuild countries, to dig wells and irrigation channels and to remove landmines left behind by past wars.
I believe that immigrants who have been living in the United States for years are entitled to citizenship, not a figurative "path to citizenship". Furthermore, we should be helping Latin American countries develop stronger economies instead of exploiting them. US foreign policy causes the lion share of immigration.
The US has more people in jail than any country in the world, and the vast majority are people of color. The system itself is racist and needs to be redesigned in a way that protects all people, including police officers.
Our government has failed to address the climate crisis adequately. It has failed to even try. We should be phasing out fossil fuels and helping low-income families get electric vehicles. We should be converting airplanes and cruise ships to solar powered planes and ships. Instead, we're still fighting wars over oil and fighting with Russia over their share of the European energy market.
Media deregulation has led to five corporations owning every major outlet, and media personalities are behaving as partisan operatives. This is simply not acceptable. We need to break up the major media corporations, reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and abolish the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Money is not speech and corporations are not people. It is a clear sign of corruption that the Supreme Court ruled that they are. We need to pass a constitutional amendment publicly funding elections and banning big money.
College used to be basically free. It has since been turned into a racket, leaving millions of students up to their ears in student debt when they are just starting out in life. A small tax on Wall St trading can pay for all college education, and doing that will invest money in the people instead of the banks and inject billions of dollars into our economy.
For almost 40 years prior to the Reagan presidency, the United States used a tax rate on the most wealthy that varied from 70%- as high as 95% during WWII. Under Dwight Eisenhower the rate did not drop below 91% and under Richard Nixon it did not drop below 70%. Reducing this rate has forced our economy to shrink, and that has forced cuts and stunted growth to programs that benefit tens of millions of people.
I have been speaking out on this issue since college. Cannabis is less harmful and less addictive than alcohol, tobacco or opiates. The criminalization of cannabis has been a racist policy used to arrest and/or deport people of color for almost 100 years. And even though many states have legalized it in the last few years, cannabis arrests have actually gone up. It's time to end that.[3] |
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| —Jason Kishineff's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
2020
Jason Kishineff completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kishineff's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Most of the change that most people want to see happen will not happen until we kick corporate money out of our political system with a constitutional amendment publicly funding elections.
- We must end wars over oil and other resources. They are a moral outrage, a waste of money that should be going to help people and are a huge part of climate change that most people don't want to talk about.
- Our criminal justice system is racist, sexist and classist, as is our economic system.
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2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jason Kishineff participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on May 9, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Jason Kishineff's responses follow below.[5]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Kicking corporate money out of politics
2) Ending U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and Syria. 3) Universal Healthcare[6][3] |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | 1) Our electoral system
2) Reforming our criminal justice system 3) Ending for-profit warsCite error: Invalid |
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Jason Kishineff answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | I find Jill Stein to be inspiring. She is down to Earth, brilliant, rebellious and yet kind.[3] | ” |
| “ | Our Revolution: A Future To believe In by Bernie Sanders[3] | ” |
| “ | An official should be honest and not take corporate donations, but she/he also must have the will to stand up and fight for what's right.[3] | ” |
| “ | I have the integrity to refuse corporate donations and to represent my constituents instead of big money interests. I also have the fire to fight for what the people want and to prevent what they do not.[3] | ” |
| “ | Staying true to the people.[3] | ” |
| “ | I would like to leave a legacy of justice, where people can afford food and rent and can go to the doctor. We stop making endless war and politicians struggle to represent the voters and not their corporate donors.[3] | ” |
| “ | The Iran hostage situation in 1979. I was 10 years old (ish). I think I turned 11 before it ended.[3] | ” |
| “ | I volunteered at Queen Of The Valley Hospital for about 6 months.[3] | ” |
| “ | April Fools Day, because I'm a stinker.[3] | ” |
| “ | Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, the most amazing book ever.[3] | ” |
| “ | Jean Valjean. He had a hard, but full life. He served time for stealing bread, served as Mayor, raised a child whom he loved and he got to travel around France.[3] | ” |
| “ | My wife. I couldn't do without her.[3] | ” |
| “ | "The Last Song I'll Ever Write" by Edward Bear[3] | ” |
| “ | Not necessarily. Experience can mean corrupted by the corporate-military-political machine.[3] | ” |
| “ | Reforming our electoral system and promoting peace.[3] | ” |
| “ | Financial Services, Appropriations, Budget, Foreign Affairs, Ethics[3] | ” |
| “ | Yes[3] | ” |
| “ | I have signed an agreement to co-sponsor Term Limits.[3] | ” |
| “ | Yes, whatever my party calls me to do.[3] | ” |
| “ | Tulsi Gabbard, Ro Khanna, Raul Grijalva[3] | ” |
| “ | Yes, and I don't want to tell other people's private stories, but there have been a couple of stories surrounding the issue of police violence that have deeply moved me.[3] | ” |
Times-Herald statement
Kishineff stated the following in an editorial in the Times-Herald:
| “ | I have a vision, only it’s not just my vision. It is a vision shared by millions of Americans, and even more millions worldwide.
It is a vision of a better future, a future with no more wars-for-profit or regime change. A future where corporations and the very wealthy do not run politics, and cannot buy their way out of legal troubles with bribery or high priced attorneys. A future where the common person and the very wealthy are subject to the same rule of law and justice as everyone else — where no one gets off lightly for their crimes just because of their wealth, and no one faces stricter punishments or scrutiny by the law because of their skin color. A future in which children that want to go to college can go to college, and without being gouged by student loans. I’m talking about a future where no one ever decides not to go to the doctor or go to a hospital because they can’t afford the bill. And the entire country is running on 100 percent renewable energy. Establishment politicians from both sides of the two-party duopoly will tell you that these things are impossible, but we find more and more that the politicians that are telling us these things are impossible are the same people that are blocking our progress. The same officials that will tell you that only people with military experience are qualified for office, the implication being that they won’t send your kids off to war lightly, are the very people voting again and again to go to war over oil pipelines and profits, or to increase the funding for said wars. But we the people are realizing that both “major parties” are really two wings of the same party, with different variations of the same failed policies. This is why I have joined with the progressive movement, to take back our government from moneyed interests and bring power back to the people. It was Malcolm X that said “You put them first and they put you last, cause you’re a chump.” Establishment politicians will tell you that our progressive agenda is all impossible, but that’s not true. That’s their donors’ money speaking. Voting out establishment politicians and replacing them with progressives is not only possible, I believe it is the future. America has simply become far too corporatized, from politics to education to medicine to the foods we eat. This cannot be allowed to persist. This is why I have decided to run for the 5th Congressional District seat in California. It is time to vote out candidates that refuse to turn away from corporate money. We cannot allow our elected officials to place us behind insurance companies or the alcohol lobby, when it comes to making important decisions about tax rates or the laws that govern us anymore. Enough is enough! We need to get money out of politics and give power to the people now! But we all know the revolution isn’t free. Please stop by my website at www.kishineff.org and donate a few bucks if you can. This campaign is of the people, by the people and for the people, and not funded by billionaires or corporate donors. I hope I can count on your endorsement and your vote.[3] |
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| —Jason Kishineff (2017)[7] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 20, 2019
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 7, 2022
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jason Kishineff for Congress, “Home,” accessed May 23, 2022
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Jason Kishineff's responses," May 9, 2018
- ↑ Times-Herald, "Jason Kishineff: My vision for the future," September 6, 2017
