Jonathan Benjamin Fleming
Jonathan Benjamin Fleming ran for election to the San Jose City Council to represent District 2 in California. He lost in the primary on March 3, 2020.
Fleming completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: City elections in San Jose, California (2020)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for San Jose City Council District 2
Incumbent Sergio Jimenez won election outright against Jonathan Benjamin Fleming in the primary for San Jose City Council District 2 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sergio Jimenez (Nonpartisan) | 58.5 | 12,891 |
 | Jonathan Benjamin Fleming (Nonpartisan)  | 41.5 | 9,139 | |
| Total votes: 22,030 | |||
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2018
General runoff election
General runoff election for San Jose City Council District 7
Maya Esparza defeated incumbent Tam Nguyen in the general runoff election for San Jose City Council District 7 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Maya Esparza (Nonpartisan) | 54.2 | 11,165 |
 | Tam Nguyen (Nonpartisan) | 45.8 | 9,452 | |
| Total votes: 20,617 | |||
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General election
General election for San Jose City Council District 7
The following candidates ran in the general election for San Jose City Council District 7 on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tam Nguyen (Nonpartisan) | 30.2 | 3,560 |
| ✔ | | Maya Esparza (Nonpartisan) | 25.1 | 2,952 |
 | Van Le (Nonpartisan) | 13.2 | 1,549 | |
 | Thomas Duong (Nonpartisan) | 11.7 | 1,382 | |
| Jonathan Benjamin Fleming (Nonpartisan) | 10.8 | 1,275 | |
| Omar Vasquez (Nonpartisan) | 6.1 | 716 | ||
| Chris Le (Nonpartisan) | 2.9 | 344 | ||
| Total votes: 11,778 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jonathan Benjamin Fleming completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fleming's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Jonathan is committed to making San José safe and clean for us all. He will say no to high tax increases and demand changes to the programs that are misspending our tax dollars. He believes our cost of living is too high and our quality of life is too low. Jonathan does not stand for enabling problems to get worse, instead he will develop lasting solutions to solve our City's most difficult problems like homelessness, which he believes should be addressed by solving the drug and mental health crises that are currently being neglected by local governments.
Jonathan Fleming wants your voice to be heard and will ensure we are all represented as our next District 2 City Councilmember!- Improve Safety - Hire More Police Officers. The highest priority of the San José government is to protect life and provide for the safety of its residents.
- Address Homeless Compassionately with the Fleming Homeless Plan. The Fleming Homeless Plan focuses on rehabilitation emphasizing sobriety, treatment for mental illness, and job placement through immediate housing in prefabricated university-like campuses away from schools and neighborhoods, with a goal of self-supportiveness while saving half a billion dollars in construction costs over current practices.
- Fiscal responsibility without Raising Taxes. Our City needs to use your tax dollars correctly and grow our City's general fund without increasing tax rates or levying new bonds to improve our core services and give us a better quality of life.
I have firsthand knowledge of homelessness because I almost lost everything after my own disability and I have lived with four homeless persons, who I invited to live with me for free under my own roof.
Prevailing strategies and policies are protracted and limited while enable homelessness by precluding treatment of its underlying causes: mental illness and substance abuse.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
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