Jeff Jacobs (Wisconsin)
Jeff Jacobs (Green Party) ran for election to the Wisconsin State Assembly to represent District 54. He was disqualified from the general election scheduled on November 3, 2020.
Jacobs completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jeff Jacobs' owned and operated It Is Vapor Wisconsin, a chain of electronic cigarette stores from 2011 to 2017. He was an independent living assistant at the Homes for Independent Living. Jacobs' professional experience includes working in a family business, Snack Shack, as a cashier and doing food prep. He was a supervisor and assistant general manager at Johnny Rockets and a supervisor at Captel Captioned Telephone. He worked as a promotional products salesman for 4Imprint. Jacobs was also a cook at Pizza Hut and Taco Bell; a cashier and automotive department manager at Walmart; a truck unload team lead at Kmart; a chef at the Marcus Theaters Majestic Cinema' and a customer service representative at Pick N Save.[1]
As of 2020, Jacobs was involved with 4-H, the Sierra Club, Voces De La Frontera, the War Resisters League, the Wisconsin Green Party, and Industrial Workers of the World.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2020
General election
General election for Wisconsin State Assembly District 54
Incumbent Gordon Hintz defeated Donnie Herman in the general election for Wisconsin State Assembly District 54 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Gordon Hintz (D) | 54.2 | 15,487 |
| Donnie Herman (R) | 45.7 | 13,063 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 33 | ||
| Total votes: 28,583 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jeff Jacobs (G)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 54
Incumbent Gordon Hintz advanced from the Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 54 on August 11, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Gordon Hintz | 99.7 | 5,539 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 19 | ||
| Total votes: 5,558 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 54
Donnie Herman defeated Pete Kohlhoff in the Republican primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 54 on August 11, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Donnie Herman | 66.0 | 2,739 | |
| Pete Kohlhoff | 33.8 | 1,402 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 8 | ||
| Total votes: 4,149 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jeff Jacobs completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Jacobs' 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 former democratic activist turned third party/independent voter I understand the concerns that some may have about third party candidacies. However - I am a strong progressive that is committed to breaking free of the dominance of the major corporate parties and will do the hard work necessary to earn your support. If the two party system must continue, I will do everything in my power to make one of the options Green.
I am running because I believe I would be an excellent legislator and a good example of a progressive that lives the values that implies.
- The major corporate parties have interests that differ significantly from the interests of those they claim to represent. Corporate dominance over all aspects of our public affairs does a disservice to the American people, our institutions, and our families. The incumbent is a leader in a corporate party, a mediocre legislator with a poor disposition and many controversies, and an example of the unaccountable elites that generally govern in our society.
- The Green Party is Americas largest truly progressive party and has been doing the hard work of organizing and running campaigns at all levels of government in the US for three decades. The Jeff4Wisconsin campaign has the dual goal of building a strong local Green Party and winning the 54th District Assembly seat.
- The Jeff4Wisconsin Jeff Jacobs for Assembly Campaign is committed to grassroots democracy, decision-making that prioritizes ecological wisdom, and taking no corporate money - ever.
I am committed to advocating for a Green platform that prioritizes the working class and I will seek to pass policies that would make their lives materially better. I have chose to emphasize certain issues during the current campaign such as ranked choice voting reform, banning corporate money in politics, community driven economic policies and state-level preparedness planning. I also have a proposal in development for a statewide Universal Basic Income for all citizens.
At 5AM she came back down to a very confused, very tired young man who could not comprehend how we didn't have an answer yet.
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I wouldn't have to answer questions like this and if I did you wouldn't understand them anyway.
This has affected me at different times and in different ways in my life, most seriously towards the end of high school. High level clinical depression actually derailed my last two years. This caused me to go down the path of attaining a GED - which has made my life much more difficult than it otherwise would have been.
With that in mind, I believe that the best we can hope to do is to provide an open system (most likely publicly financed) that has as few political incentives for grandstanding as possible. I envision a system free of corporate influence where each election is an open debate of ideas and policy prescriptions, and where most candidates can be assumed to be speaking on behalf of no interests but their own.
However, I do not believe that forming close personal friendships between legislators is necessary or even necessarily a positive thing. I believe this has the potential to insulate legislators from people who are less like them and over time has the possibility of making the opinions formed on the basis of those relationships more important to the decision making process than the interests of the citizens they represent.
It was easily one of the most powerful conversations I have ever had.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
