Jason Kishineff
Jason Kishineff (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 5th Congressional District. He lost in the primary on March 3, 2020.
Kishineff completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. 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, and lives in Northern California. His career experience includes working as an activist, homemaker, and pharmacy technician.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: California's 5th Congressional District election, 2020
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 |
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| ✔ |
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Mike Thompson (D) |
76.1
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271,233 |
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Scott Giblin (R) |
23.9
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85,227 | |
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Total votes: 356,460 | |||
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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 |
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| ✔ |
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Mike Thompson (D) |
67.5
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146,980 |
| ✔ |
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Scott Giblin (R) |
20.2
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43,987 |
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John Wesley Tyler (D) 
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9.5
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20,725 | |
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Jason Kishineff (D)
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2.7
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5,928 | |
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Total votes: 217,620 | |||
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2018
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 |
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| ✔ |
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Mike Thompson (D) |
78.9
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205,860 |
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Anthony Mills (Independent)
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21.1
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55,158 | |
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Total votes: 261,018 | |||
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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 |
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| ✔ |
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Mike Thompson (D) |
79.3
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121,428 |
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Anthony Mills (Independent)
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8.8
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13,538 |
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Nils Palsson (Independent) |
8.3
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12,652 | |
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Jason Kishineff (G)
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3.6
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5,458 | |
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Total votes: 153,076 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Doug Van Raam (R)
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jason Kishineff completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kishineff's responses.
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I am an activist, a home maker and former pharmacy technician. I am a member of Napa Climate Now, Justice Coalition Of Vallejo, and am a founding member of Napa County Progressive Alliance, Protect Our Wetlands and No Coal In Vallejo. I have been a part of struggles against police violence, deforestation, pollution, glyphosates (RoundUp), for Pride Flags to be flown on Napa County city council and supervisor buildings, for our skate park in American Canyon to be rebuilt, and for clean waterways. I have also been a volunteer for the Bernie Sanders campaign for about four years.
- 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.
I am passionate about racial justice and environmentalism. And when I say racial justice, I don't just mean criminal justice, but I consider for-profit wars to be a racial issue. I also include respecting the lands and rights of Native Americans, which get confiscated every time an oil company wants to build a new pipeline.
I look up to Bernie Sanders Ralph Nader. Both have been fighting for everyday Americans, and speaking truth to power, for decades, as well as trying to get other people to run for office.
Our Revolution: A Future To believe In by Bernie Sanders
The integrity to refuse money from corporations, lobbyists and billionaires. If you're not putting people and the planet before profits, it's usually because you took the money.
I have the integrity to refuse corporate donations and to represent my constituents instead of big money interests and the empathy to care about the people I will represent. I also have the fire to fight for what the people want and to prevent what they do not.
The core responsibilities are to create wealth and get that wealth into the pockets of everyday people, to advocate for a fair and just foreign policy and to create domestic policy that allows people like you and me to thrive.
I would like to leave a legacy of justice, where people can afford food and rent and can go to the doctor. Where we stop making endless war and politicians struggle to represent their constituents and not corporations and billionaires.
The Iran hostage crisis. I was nine years old.
I volunteered at the Queen Of The Valley Hospital gift shop (in Napa) for about six months.
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, the most amazing book ever. It is about the struggle for justice.
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.
"Eve Of Destruction" by Barry McGuire
Not necessarily. Experience can mean corrupted by the corporate-military-political machine. My parents used to tell me we need leaders with certain experience, who will take the responsibility of decisions about war seriously. In my view, the leaders who I feel are deploying our troops irresponsibly are those same leaders with that experience. Some of our experienced elected officials seem to have become numb to the loss of human life.
Well, the most vital challenge is converting our energy system into a renewable energy system that is carbon neutral. But not just that, we've got to work with other countries with pollution problems, or that are fossil fuel producing nations, to get them carbon neutral as well. But another great challenge is getting rid of corporate interference in our political system. Until we do that, all of the life and death issues that face us- climate crisis, homelessness, inequality, criminal justice reform, millions of people without healthcare- are going to be very difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish.
I'm drawn to the Foreign Affairs Committee, but also maybe the Appropriations Committee.
Yes I do. The term is two years so that Representatives will have to stay in touch with their constituents.
I have signed an agreement to co-sponsor Term Limits.
I would be honored to serve in whatever role my country needs me to serve in.
Yes. I find Rep. Ilhan Omar to be calm and even and yet ready to call out people like Elliott Abrams for his words and record.
A friend told me about his friend, whose mother passed away and ended up homeless. And when the man got sick, he had inadequate healthcare and ended up dying in bed, at home, leaving behind a 2 year old daughter. This story speaks to the massive inequality that we are dealing with today and the need for single payer healthcare.It's been months since I heard this and it still brings tears to my eyes.
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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.[2]
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[3][4] |
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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.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | Our Revolution: A Future To believe In by Bernie Sanders[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | 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.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | 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.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | Staying true to the people.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | 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.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | The Iran hostage situation in 1979. I was 10 years old (ish). I think I turned 11 before it ended.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | I volunteered at Queen Of The Valley Hospital for about 6 months.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | April Fools Day, because I'm a stinker.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, the most amazing book ever.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | 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.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | My wife. I couldn't do without her.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | "The Last Song I'll Ever Write" by Edward Bear[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | Not necessarily. Experience can mean corrupted by the corporate-military-political machine.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | Reforming our electoral system and promoting peace.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | Financial Services, Appropriations, Budget, Foreign Affairs, Ethics[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | Yes[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | I have signed an agreement to co-sponsor Term Limits.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | Yes, whatever my party calls me to do.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | Tulsi Gabbard, Ro Khanna, Raul Grijalva[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
| “ | 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.[4] | ” |
| —Jason Kishineff | ||
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.[4] |
” |
| —Jason Kishineff (2017)[5] | ||
See also
2020 Elections
External links
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- Change.org - The Progressive Manifesto 2017
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 20, 2019
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Times-Herald, "Jason Kishineff: My vision for the future," September 6, 2017
