Jay Jalisi
Jay Jalisi (Democratic Party) was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 10. He assumed office on January 14, 2015. He left office on January 11, 2023.
Jalisi (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Maryland State Senate to represent District 10. He lost in the Democratic primary on July 19, 2022.
Committee assignments
2021-2022
Jalisi was assigned to the following committees:
2019-2020
Jalisi was assigned to the following committees:
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Jalisi served on the following committees:
| Maryland committee assignments, 2015 |
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| • Environment and Transportation |
Sponsored legislation
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Elections
2022
See also: Maryland State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Maryland State Senate District 10
Benjamin Brooks defeated William Newton in the general election for Maryland State Senate District 10 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Benjamin Brooks (D) | 78.6 | 31,373 |
 | William Newton (R) | 21.2 | 8,460 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 65 | ||
| Total votes: 39,898 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Maryland State Senate District 10
Benjamin Brooks defeated Jay Jalisi, Stephanie Boston, and Lawrence Williams in the Democratic primary for Maryland State Senate District 10 on July 19, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Benjamin Brooks | 37.6 | 6,432 |
 | Jay Jalisi | 31.2 | 5,347 | |
 | Stephanie Boston | 18.0 | 3,087 | |
| Lawrence Williams | 13.1 | 2,245 | ||
| Total votes: 17,111 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Maryland State Senate District 10
William Newton advanced from the Republican primary for Maryland State Senate District 10 on July 19, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | William Newton | 100.0 | 2,166 |
| Total votes: 2,166 | |||
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2020
Regular election
See also: Maryland's 7th Congressional District election, 2020
Maryland's 7th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primary)
Maryland's 7th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Maryland District 7
Incumbent Kweisi Mfume defeated Kim Klacik, Charles Smith, and Ray Bly in the general election for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kweisi Mfume (D) | 71.6 | 237,084 |
 | Kim Klacik (R) | 28.0 | 92,825 | |
 | Charles Smith (D) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 21 | |
 | Ray Bly (R) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 16 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 1,052 | ||
| Total votes: 330,998 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Gary Schuman (Independent)
- Amber Ivey (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kweisi Mfume | 74.3 | 113,061 |
 | Maya Rockeymoore Cummings | 10.0 | 15,208 | |
 | Jill Carter | 8.7 | 13,237 | |
| Alicia Brown | 1.2 | 1,841 | ||
| Charles Stokes | 0.9 | 1,356 | ||
 | T. Dan Baker | 0.7 | 1,141 | |
| Jay Jalisi | 0.7 | 1,056 | |
 | Harry Spikes | 0.7 | 1,040 | |
 | Saafir Rabb | 0.6 | 948 | |
 | Mark Gosnell | 0.5 | 765 | |
| Darryl Gonzalez | 0.3 | 501 | ||
 | Jeffrey Woodard | 0.2 | 368 | |
 | Gary Schuman | 0.2 | 344 | |
| Michael Howard Jr. | 0.2 | 327 | ||
| Jermyn Michael Davidson | 0.2 | 298 | ||
| Dan Hiegel | 0.1 | 211 | ||
| Charles Smith | 0.1 | 189 | |
| Matko Lee Chullin III | 0.1 | 187 | ||
 | Adrian Petrus | 0.1 | 170 | |
| Total votes: 152,248 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Terri L. Hill (D)
- Brian Britcher (D)
- F. Michael Higginbotham (D)
- Talmadge Branch (D)
- Leslie Grant (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kim Klacik | 68.8 | 16,465 |
 | Elizabeth Matory | 14.2 | 3,401 | |
| William Newton | 5.3 | 1,271 | |
| Ray Bly | 5.2 | 1,234 | |
| Brian Brown | 4.7 | 1,134 | ||
| M.J. Madwolf | 1.8 | 442 | ||
| Total votes: 23,947 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Christopher Anderson (R)
- Mekkah Mohammed (R)
- Reba Hawkins (R)
Special election
See also: Maryland's 7th Congressional District special election, 2020
Maryland's 7th Congressional District special election (February 4, 2020 Democratic primary)
Maryland's 7th Congressional District special election (February 4, 2020 Republican primary)
General election
Special general election for U.S. House Maryland District 7
Kweisi Mfume defeated Kim Klacik in the special general election for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on April 28, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kweisi Mfume (D) | 73.8 | 111,955 |
| Kim Klacik (R) | 25.1 | 38,102 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.1 | 1,661 | ||
| Total votes: 151,718 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Special Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7
The following candidates ran in the special Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on February 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kweisi Mfume | 43.0 | 31,415 |
| Maya Rockeymoore Cummings | 17.1 | 12,524 | |
| Jill Carter | 16.0 | 11,708 | |
 | Terri L. Hill | 7.4 | 5,439 | |
 | F. Michael Higginbotham | 4.4 | 3,245 | |
| Harry Spikes | 3.5 | 2,572 | |
| Saafir Rabb | 1.8 | 1,327 | |
| Jay Jalisi | 1.7 | 1,257 | |
 | Talmadge Branch | 1.1 | 810 | |
| Mark Gosnell | 0.8 | 579 | |
| T. Dan Baker | 0.5 | 377 | |
| Charles Stokes | 0.4 | 297 | ||
 | Paul Konka | 0.3 | 251 | |
| Darryl Gonzalez | 0.3 | 245 | ||
| Alicia Brown | 0.2 | 180 | ||
| Leslie Grant | 0.2 | 176 | ||
 | Anthony Carter Sr. | 0.2 | 155 | |
| Jay Fred Cohen | 0.2 | 150 | ||
| Matko Lee Chullin III | 0.1 | 79 | ||
| Charles Smith | 0.1 | 75 | |
| Adrian Petrus | 0.1 | 60 | |
| Nathaniel Costley Sr. | 0.1 | 49 | ||
| Dan Hiegel | 0.0 | 31 | ||
| Jermyn Michael Davidson | 0.0 | 31 | ||
| Total votes: 73,032 | |||
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Republican primary election
Special Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7
The following candidates ran in the special Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on February 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kim Klacik | 40.2 | 4,525 |
| Elizabeth Matory | 24.3 | 2,740 | |
| James Arnold | 12.4 | 1,401 | ||
 | Reba Hawkins | 8.1 | 913 | |
 | Christopher Anderson | 7.6 | 852 | |
| William Newton | 3.7 | 414 | |
| Ray Bly | 2.1 | 236 | |
| Brian Brown | 1.6 | 185 | ||
| Total votes: 11,266 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for Maryland House of Delegates District 10 (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Maryland House of Delegates District 10 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Adrienne Jones (D) | 27.4 | 33,830 |
| ✔ | | Benjamin Brooks (D) | 26.8 | 33,066 |
| ✔ | | Jay Jalisi (D) | 26.4 | 32,587 |
| George Harman (R) | 6.9 | 8,525 | ||
 | Brian Marcos (R) | 6.2 | 7,706 | |
 | Matthew Kaliszak (R) | 6.0 | 7,458 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 159 | ||
| Total votes: 123,331 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 10 (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 10 on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Adrienne Jones | 28.4 | 11,005 |
| ✔ | | Jay Jalisi | 27.8 | 10,790 |
| ✔ | | Benjamin Brooks | 24.7 | 9,587 |
 | Lauren Lipscomb | 11.8 | 4,588 | |
| Nathaniel Costley Sr. | 4.9 | 1,914 | ||
 | Jordan Porompyae | 2.3 | 903 | |
| Total votes: 38,787 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 10 (3 seats)
George Harman, Brian Marcos, and Matthew Kaliszak defeated Michael T. Brown Sr. in the Republican primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 10 on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | George Harman | 31.5 | 1,138 | |
| ✔ | | Brian Marcos | 26.8 | 969 |
| ✔ | | Matthew Kaliszak | 24.9 | 900 |
| Michael T. Brown Sr. | 16.8 | 607 | ||
| Total votes: 3,614 | |||
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2014
Elections for the Maryland House of Delegates took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 24, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was February 25, 2014. Incumbent Adrienne A. Jones, Jay Jalisi and Benjamin Brooks defeated Chris Blake, Michael Tyrone Brown, Sr., Regg J. Hatcher, Jr., Carin Smith, Frederick Strickland and Robert "Rob" Johnson in the Democratic primary, while William T. Newton was unopposed in the Republican primary. Jones, Jalisi and Brooks defeated Newton for three seats in the general election. Brown ran as a write-in candidate in the general election.[1][2][3]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Democratic |  Adrienne Jones Incumbent |
29.7% | 24,104 | |
| Democratic | Benjamin Brooks |
29.2% | 23,703 | |
| Democratic | Jay Jalisi |
28.8% | 23,339 | |
| Republican | William T. Newton | 12.2% | 9,906 | |
| Democratic | Michael Tyrone Brown, Sr. (write-in) | 0.1% | 68 | |
| Total Votes | 81,120 | |||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
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Adrienne Jones Incumbent |
25.4% | 8,995 |
| Jay Jalisi | 17.4% | 6,146 |
| Benjamin Brooks | 15.6% | 5,507 |
| Carin Smith | 14.7% | 5,197 |
| Robert "Rob" Johnson | 9.5% | 3,369 |
| Chris Blake | 5.9% | 2,085 |
| Michael Tyrone Brown, Sr. | 5.3% | 1,868 |
| Regg J. Hatcher, Jr. | 3.2% | 1,121 |
| Frederick Strickland | 3.1% | 1,104 |
| Total Votes | 35,392 | |
Campaign themes
2022
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2020
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Campaign website
| “ |
Education Reform Our District has a very deficient education system in Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County. The students in grade schools in Baltimore City and Baltimore County are often faced with lack of air-conditioning or heat, and the schools have to be closed when these systems break down. Dr. Jay believes that we need to invest in our children’s education and implement the recommendations of the Kirwan Commission to create a progressive learning environment for every child in our school system, because students of all ages deserve full and fair access to an internationally competitive high-quality public education that meets the demands of the 21st century workplace. College Education College education is needed for getting good jobs in this 21st century. However, a 4-year college degree is a very expensive, and sometimes too expensive, for most students and their families. As a Delegate, Dr. Jay, passed a bill that allows any orphan or foster care recipient to have his/her college loans waived over a period of 10-years. As a Congressman, Dr. Jay would support utilizing a combination of tax incentives, expanded Pell Grants and a streamlined loan application process, to make college education more affordable and tear down the barriers that are contributing to our nation’s increasing income inequality and hurting our economic growth by helping students from low and middle class working families obtain higher education. Crime Baltimore City in particular, and Baltimore and Howard counties in general, have seen a spike in criminal activities and gang-related violence leading to hundred of deaths every year. Dr. Jay believes that higher incidence of crime is directly related to joblessness and poor quality of education. He believes that simply putting more money in increased policing would not bring a solution our residents seek. As a Congressman he will bring our state and federal leadership together and formulate a policy that provides better quality of education, vocational training for our youth, stricter gun control laws, greater investment in our communities to create better paying jobs, and providing opportunities for ex-offenders to reduce recidivism. Environment We need to create millions of good American jobs in clean and renewable energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing; and to directly confront the racial and economic inequality embedded in the traditional fossil fuel economy. We should:
Opioid Crisis The growing crisis of Opioid abuse, and the resulting death rate, is a blight on our community and for our state. The easy availability of not only heroin, but of prescription drugs like fentanyl, oxycodone, codeine, and methadone is the root cause of this crisis and caused over 1,000 people to die premature deaths in Maryland. As a Congressman, Dr. Jay is committed to use all available federal resources to combat this crisis. Transportation Our country is falling behind in maintaining and modernizing our road and bridges, which in turn hurts our economy and our ability to compete in the modern world. I would support the creation of a special funding agency that could provide low-interest loans to states and cities to help finance crucial projects like roads and transit systems. This will take politics out of our efforts to rebuild our infrastructure, and enable us to start building the transportation system. The money to fund for this lending agency can be obtained by ending the oil depletion allowance – a tax break for the oil industry – that would save the U.S. Treasury more than $10 billion over the next ten years. That amount could generate close to $100 billion in the capital needed for infrastructure projects around the country. Immigration As an immigrant to the United States, Dr. Jay knows that America is a nation of immigrants and also a nation of laws. He understands that our current immigration policy is flawed and must be changed to meet the needs of the 21st century. As a Congressman, Dr. Jay will work for a full and comprehensive overhaul of our immigration policy that protects our homeland, secures our borders, and also offers a clear path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who have lived peacefully in this country, and have agreed to pay penalties and fines, pay their taxes, learn English, and are generally proven to be productive members of our American society.[4] |
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| —Jay Jalisi's 2020 campaign website[5] | ||
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2022
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Noteworthy events
Civil fine
In October 2014, Jalisi paid a $2,500 civil fine for violating state election law. Jalisi was charged with authorizing 28 expenditures as chairman of his campaign committee; under Maryland election law, candidates may not make disbursements on behalf of a campaign finance organization. Jalisi paid the fine soon after being charged. The maximum fine for a civil violation of state election code is $5,000.[6]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Maryland Secretary of State, "Official primary election candidate list," accessed March 3, 2014
- ↑ Maryland State Board of Elections, "Official 2014 Gubernatorial Primary Election results for House of Delegates," accessed December 5, 2014
- ↑ Maryland State Board of Elections, "2014 Official General Election Results," accessed April 30, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jay Jalisi's 2020 campaign website, "Home," accessed December 13, 2019
- ↑ Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor, "October 6, 2014: State Delegate Candidate “Jay” Jalisi pays $2,500 Civil Fine for Disbursing Funds for His Campaign Finance Entity," October 6, 2014
