Jennifer Eason
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Jennifer Eason (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Nevada's 4th Congressional District. She did not appear on the ballot for the Democratic primary on June 14, 2022.
Eason completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jennifer Eason was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Eason’s career experience includes working in human resources as a benefits manager and as a client engagement executive.[1][2]
Elections
2020
See also: Nevada's 4th Congressional District election, 2020
Nevada's 4th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 9 Democratic primary)
Nevada's 4th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 9 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Nevada District 4
Incumbent Steven Horsford defeated Jim Marchant, Jonathan Royce Esteban, and Barry Rubinson in the general election for U.S. House Nevada District 4 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Steven Horsford (D) | 50.7 | 168,457 |
 | Jim Marchant (R)  | 45.8 | 152,284 | |
 | Jonathan Royce Esteban (L) | 2.4 | 7,978 | |
 | Barry Rubinson (Independent American Party) | 1.1 | 3,750 | |
| Total votes: 332,469 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Nevada District 4
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Nevada District 4 on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Steven Horsford | 75.1 | 39,656 |
 | Jennifer Eason | 9.4 | 4,968 | |
 | Gabrielle D'Ayr | 7.3 | 3,847 | |
 | Gregory Kempton | 2.9 | 1,507 | |
 | Chris Colley | 2.7 | 1,431 | |
 | George Brucato | 2.7 | 1,424 | |
| Total votes: 52,833 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Nevada District 4
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Nevada District 4 on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jim Marchant | 34.7 | 15,760 |
 | Sam Peters | 28.1 | 12,755 | |
 | Lisa Song Sutton | 15.1 | 6,846 | |
 | Charles Navarro | 6.3 | 2,870 | |
 | Rebecca Wood | 6.3 | 2,847 | |
 | Leo Blundo | 4.2 | 1,923 | |
 | Rosalie Bingham | 2.9 | 1,331 | |
 | Randi Reed | 2.3 | 1,023 | |
| Total votes: 45,355 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Catherine Prato (R)
- Leo Dunson (R)
Campaign themes
2020
Jennifer Eason completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Eason'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 am a Progressive who believes that the caucus results were a clear referendum on what this district wants - universal healthcare, a level educational playing field, income equality and people in DC who are present and plugged in to the districts they were elected to represent. I am not a establishment backed career politician. I am an every day mom who knows where you're struggling because I'm struggling there too. I'm trying to navigate a broken healthcare system with a special needs child, losing insurance that should never have been tied to my employment, and wondering how I'm going to keep putting food on the table. I'm wondering why kids in inner city schools are given fewer resources and expected to learn in schools that are falling apart. I'm waiting for our historic West Side to be sold to a casino corporation for pennies on the dollar to be gentrified, and the low income residents pushed out. I want to reform the criminal justice system that is allowing POC to sit in jail for a marijuana conviction but is making another group of people legally wealthy. I have had enough of the lip service, empty promises and establishment machine back-scratching that continues to empower and enrich the corporations and casino execs - while the rest of us break ourselves every day to work harder for less. If you've had enough of the machine that doesn't listen to you, respond you you, and it feels like no one cares - you have a choice on June 9th. Send a message to the do-nothings.
- Universal Healthcare
- Income Inequality
- Criminal Justice Reform
I am most passionate about addressing the issues that lay heavy on the minds of working men and women - who are trying to fight an unfair and unbalanced system. From crumbling infrastructure all throughout District 4, to community resources being removed - D4 deserves a representative that works every day to empower its residents with additional tools, resources, and a loud voice for change. We all deserve a living wage, healthcare that we can depend on, for our families and our children to be safe and treated fairly by schools, law enforcement, and the judicial system, and to know that our elected officials care about OUR concerns. It's past time for a change in District 4.
I love strong women. From Harriet Tubman, to Erin Brockovitch, to Liz Warren, AOC and the greatest of all time - Michelle Obama. All of these incredible women have smiled in the face of adversity and have sparked revolutions, changed lives and laid the groundwork for women like me to carry the torch.
Transparency, accountability, accessibility, and integrity.
I am an average every day mom who knows where people are struggling because I am struggling there too. I know what it feels like to choose between rent and a copay and some prescription for my child. I know the dread that you feel when you've lost your medical coverage because you lost your job. I know how it feels to have the conversation with your kids about how to behave should you be pulled over by the police. I vow to work every single day to help our kids in disenfranchised communities, for people in unions who pay their dues but have no voice, for younger people with insurmountable college debt living at home because there are no jobs, and for our vets active duty men and women - who are watching the military industrial complex suck the dollars that should be going to providing equipment and healthcare for the bravest among us.
To uphold the Constitution first and foremost. Secondly, to vote on legislation after listening to the opinions and concerns of the people in their district.
Country before party - without exception.
Country before party - without exception.
A legacy that my children can be proud of. It's that simple.
I was 10 or 11, and I remember watching the Iran-Contra events and wondering why our own Government would operate without integrity and do underhanded things. If I knew then what I know now...
I started at a dry cleaners/laundromat on the day I turned 16. I spent Saturday afternoons washing and folding other people's laundry- which might explain why I have such an aversion to it to this day 😊 I worked there for a year, before so decided to take my newfound paycheck freedom and spent the remainder of my days in high school scooping ice cream at Maggie Moo's.
Fire and Fury - for validating what we all already knew.
Everything is on fire over there.
Everything is on fire over there.
Wonder Woman, but I feel like her every day I get to wake up and keep fighting the good fight.
It's a constantly rotating playlist of Biggie, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra and Skrillex. It never ends 😊
Getting people to put themselves in the shoes of others and view others struggles from a perspective other than their own.
If you have a voice or a platform of privilege and you choose not to use it to speak out against the injustices that are happening to people of color, to women, to immigrants and the oppressed among us - you are complicit.
If you have a voice or a platform of privilege and you choose not to use it to speak out against the injustices that are happening to people of color, to women, to immigrants and the oppressed among us - you are complicit.
Serving just a two year term, members of the House have a unique opportunity to earn their place every day. From holding the Executive Branch accountable, to being the fiscally responsible purse for the Country - the House is uniquely positioned to work in the trenches alongside the folks living and working in their districts to make change happen.
Not at all. In fact, I am a firm believer that we need to rid our government of the corruption that permeates it at every level, and the best way to do that is to elect people who firmly believe that they are there "by the people - FOR THE PEOPLE."
Cleaning up the impact that this criminal administration will have left. From an economic policy that has only served the interests of the very wealthy, to weaponizing the government and our courts, all the way down to creating divides between the people by allowing the worst traits in people to be displayed every day - people feel emboldened to openly display hate.
I am most interested in the Oversight and Reform, Armed Services, Ethics and Infrastructure and Education and Workforce committees. All of these committees directly impact the folks in my district, and I want to ensure that I work every day on issues that affect them.
I do, yes. It affords the electorate an opportunity to clean house if their representative isn't up to the task.
I 100% support them. That's all I have to say about that 😊
I want to be the child of Erin Brockovitch and AOC who grew up and was elected to Congress. A "take-no-prisoners" warrior for justice, who doesn't back down from a fight, but knows that it will take bi-partisan effort to get things done. We must work harder to find common ground with folks across the aisle or be more vocal in calling out specific legislative members who are are willfully working against the wishes of the people.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
Senators
Catherine Masto (D)
Jacky Rosen (D)
Representatives
District 1
Dina Titus (D)
District 2
Mark Amodei (R)
District 3
Susie Lee (D)
District 4
Steven Horsford (D)
Democratic Party (5)
Republican Party (1)
