Jose Caballero
Jose Caballero (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 53rd Congressional District. He lost in the primary on March 3, 2020.
Caballero was a candidate for the nonpartisan District 7 seat on the San Diego City Council in California. He was defeated in the primary election on June 7, 2016.
Elections
2020
See also: California's 53rd Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 53
Sara Jacobs defeated Georgette Gómez in the general election for U.S. House California District 53 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sara Jacobs (D) | 59.5 | 199,244 |
 | Georgette Gómez (D) | 40.5 | 135,614 | |
| Total votes: 334,858 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 53
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 53 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sara Jacobs (D) | 29.1 | 58,312 |
| ✔ | | Georgette Gómez (D) | 20.0 | 39,962 |
 | Chris Stoddard (R) | 13.0 | 25,962 | |
 | Janessa Goldbeck (D) | 8.5 | 17,041 | |
 | Famela Ramos (R) | 7.5 | 15,005 | |
 | Michael Oristian (R) | 7.4 | 14,807 | |
 | Tom Wong (D) (Unofficially withdrew) | 3.6 | 7,265 | |
 | Annette Meza (D) | 2.2 | 4,446 | |
 | Joseph Fountain (D) | 2.0 | 4,041 | |
 | Jose Caballero (D) | 1.6 | 3,226 | |
 | Joaquín Vázquez (D) | 1.5 | 3,078 | |
 | John Brooks (D) | 1.4 | 2,820 | |
 | Fernando Garcia (Independent) | 0.9 | 1,832 | |
 | Suzette Santori (D) | 0.8 | 1,625 | |
 | Eric Kutner (D) | 0.4 | 734 | |
| Total votes: 200,156 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Devorah Ann Fox (D)
- Zack Fields (D)
- Peter Sharma (D)
- Ashur Gabriel (R)
- Daniel Phillip Ferrara (D)
2016
The mayor's chair and five of the nine seats on the San Diego City Council were up for election on June 7, 2016.
While the June election was called a primary, it was functionally a general election. The only races where no candidate won a majority (50 percent plus one) of the votes cast in the primary advanced to the election on November 8, 2016. The November election was called a general election, but it was functionally a runoff election. Incumbent Scott Sherman defeated Justin DeCesare and Jose Caballero in the primary election for San Diego City Council District 7.
| San Diego City Council District 7, Primary Election, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Scott Sherman Incumbent |
61.94% | 13,743 |
| Justin DeCesare | 21.94% | 4,869 |
| Jose Caballero | 16.12% | 3,576 |
| Total Votes (100% reporting) | 22,188 | |
| Source: San Diego County Registrar of Voters, "Presidential Primary Election, Tuesday, June 7, 2016," June 8, 2016 | ||
Campaign themes
2020
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Campaign website
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MEDICARE FOR ALL No one should have to choose between keeping a roof over their head and getting the medicine that they need to survive. The United States needs to step into the 21st century like other nations and offer a comprehensive single payer healthcare system. On healthcare we need to stop following and go back to leading. I support Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” program. If elected, I will sign on and fight for passage of this critical bill introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Rep. Debbie Dingell. Patients would not be responsible for any cost sharing of medical expenses ending premiums, copays, and deductibles. The government coverage would include hospitals, doctors, preventive care, prescription medications, dental care, and vision care. This plan also stops private insurers from selling plans that compete with Medicare for All. Green New Deal My pledge is to sign onto the Green New Deal day one in office. We will support the one trillion-dollar infrastructure revitalization package that will bring redevelopment to a scale not seen since the New Deal. I will never stop fighting to ensure the climate crisis is addressed and that bold action is taken. I have lead marches against Monsanto, been a canvass director for Environment California, and have been vegan for over three years. I will be running on a platform to work with farmers to transform our food system to be more sustainable and diverse. ENDING ALL SUBSIDIES FROM INDUSTRIES THAT DESTROY OUR ENVIRONMENT
CARBON TAX A $73 tax on every ton of CO2 produced by industry would create $300 billion in revenue a year. FOOD SAFETY We believe the FDA deserves funding to guarantee disease-free food safety. Food safety is also ensuring that the food we eat is beneficial to long term health using science-based research. We will fight to ensure that plant-based options are available in all schools and hospitals across the country. We will also advocate for a more streamlined inspection process that limits the amount of administrative tasks that have to be done by the farmers themselves. CONSTRUCTION ALONGSIDE PUBLIC TRANSIT HUBS We support mass public transit that spans the entirety of the United States in order to bring down CO2 emissions. This growth in public transit will lead to new construction. ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE CONSTRUCTION We must only build with the environment in mind, and I will fight to make certain we end all new construction of non-renewable energy plants. We should only construct in accordance to the framework set forth in the Green New Deal. HEROES’ PROMISE MEAL & SLEEP TIME PROTECTION Eating and sleeping are natural processes that maintain our physical and mental health. This should not be taken away except in the case of a life or death situation (i.e. in a war zone). RIGHT TO FILE EFFECTIVE GRIEVANCE All active duty members will be given the right to file a grievance outside the chain of command, ensuring them a fair and effective grievance process. RIGHT TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES War is difficult not only on the body but the mind. We have to provide our active duty members the right to mental health services without fear of reprisal or retaliation. END OF SERVICE PENSION Up to 6 years equal to time served at exiting base pay upon separation, with an additional 2 years for combat veterans. (Example: non-combat veteran that serves 4 years would receive 4 years of pension) Upon leaving, service veterans will be required to have at least one therapy session a month for the duration of the end of service pension. HOUSING FOR ALL VETERANS Our service members are heroes. They have defended our country from threats, we need to do our part and defend our heroes against the threat homelessness. HEALTHCARE FOR ALL VETERANS All veterans will have 100% healthcare via the VA or Medicare upon leaving service. This will include dental, vision and mental health services. CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL VETERANS Our service members put their lives on the line for the citizens of this great nation every single day, yet many of them are not given the full rights of citizenship of the nation they are defending. This is simply not right. We will provide all service members and veterans that have served with United States citizenship. EDUCATION FOR ALL VETERANS We invest so much into guaranteeing the soldiers we send to war are well trained and equipped to face the dangers they are protecting this country from. Our investment needs to continue into their education when they come home. Under the Heroes’ Promise, all veterans will have a right to tuition free public education for their entire life. Education for all Education is a right not a privilege. Everyone deserves equal access to education. Crippling student debt, predatory career college marketing, and overcrowding in the community college and trade school systems in our country have failed our population. We must guarantee a pathway for everyone to have the education needed to reach that dream in today’s economy. We will pursue policy focused on bringing access to education to everyone. ALL EDUCATION SHOULD BE TUITION FREE We will end tuition in public college, universities, and trade schools. By supporting the College For All Act introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal. PROTECT AND INCREASE PUBLIC PRE-K THRU 12 GRADE QUALITY AND FUNDING
Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Student loan debt has crippled an entire generation of Americans. Home buying rates amongst millennials is 8% lower than boomers. This is not because millennials don’t want a home, but because they can’t afford one. Millennials are strapped with a debt that has stunted their ability to participate in the economy. We stand for the cancellation of all student loan debt which would be relief to over 42 million Americans. We must forgive the $1.5 trillion debt that is held by 45 million Americans and is crippling our most vulnerable generation and future generations. We can’t allow the continuation of the student debt that is a roadblock for millennials that is stifling our ability to buy homes, start businesses, and be a part of the middle class. I will support Rep. Omar’s Student Debt Cancellation Act of 2019, that will forgive all of the country’s student debt. This bill would cost $2.2 trillion over a decade and be paid for by a tax of 0.5 percent on stock trades, a 0.1 percent fee on bonds, and a .0005 percent fee on derivatives. Criminal Justice Reform I will stand with victims of our flawed criminal justice system. I will co-sponsor any legislation that addresses the atrocities of our criminal justice system in regard to racial prejudice and profiling. POLICE TRAINING Communities of color are over policed. This is not a debatable opinion but a statement of fact. We need to address a culture of police training that emphasizes the over targeting of African Americans and Latinos. As a member of the Progressive Wave I will push for federal funding for better training with an increased emphasis on de-escalation tactics and the mandatory use of always-on police body cameras. We also will be seeking funding for community oversight committees on the local level. IN ADDITION I ALSO SUPPORT :
PRISON REFORM Our prison system also needs to be re-examined. The United States currently imprisons 22% of the worlds prison population. yet only makes up only 4.4% of the population. Couple this with a dramatically higher incarceration rate of African Americans and Latinos and a recidivism rate that is appalling it is time for a change. We need to put an end to for profits prisons. We need to put an emphasis back on rehabilitation. We need to reform our criminal justice system! IN ADDITION I ALSO SUPPORT :
No More War We must use the War Powers Act more effectively and end all the foreign wars. Promote peace in international relations – We must increase aid to change our reputation in the world from destroyers to builders. Limit defense spending in government. – I pledge to fight to be on the armed forces committee to address our over bloated defense spending. Ending the War on Drugs The War on Drugs failed, is racist, and need to be put to an end. African American and Latino families have been torn apart by a policy that relentlessly targeted communities of color. It is time for us to put an end to the War on drugs. We are also seeking to legalize marijuana and expungement of the records of those previously convicted on marijuana related felonies. We see models like those we are seeing in Washington, Massachusetts, Colorado, and California as a method to rollout a nationwide legalization effort. Then we will advocate to end the war on drugs by decriminalizing drugs and release all nonviolent drug offenders. We will transfer the drug issue out of the hands of the criminal justice system and into the hands of medical professionals. This will also devastate the South American cartels by ending their ability to profit off of our crime networks. Furthermore, it would reduce the power of the cartels over their home countries, thus reducing the flow of refugees. Money Out of Politics We have seen an influx of corporate money into our political system and it must stop. Super PACs need to go! Private donations need to go! We will fight the bribery that our Supreme Court has permitted in our democracy. No member of the Progressive Wave will take Super PAC or corporations. I will fight to establish a 28th Constitutional Amendment that unequivocally takes money out of politics in order to restore election integrity. IN ADDITION I ALSO SUPPORT:
PROTECT VOTER RIGHTS With the decision of Shelby County v Holder we are seeing an increase in voter suppression. The decision left it in Congress’s hands to act an implement an up to date the formula used to enforce voter protection in the Civil Rights Act. Sadly, Congress has failed to act. We won’t fail to act and will push to strengthen the Civil Rights Act and protect the American voter. Immigration Reform DACA AND DAPA PROTECTION We are prepared to fight for true immigration reform. Not a wall! Not bigotry! Not racism! We want to fix our broken immigration process, protect DACA and DAPA recipients, and end our racist immigration policy. We are a nation of immigrants. It is our countries heritage of being a melting pot that makes us strong, that makes us unique, and has helped us prosper. Let’s legalize DACA and DAPA recipients with immediate United State Citizenship. ABOLISH ICE Part of immigration reform is taking steps toward abolishing ICE by changing its directive. We do not need a state sponsored terrorist organization within our own borders. It is time to end ICE’s mission and pass meaningful immigration reform that stands for our values. IN ADDITION I STAND FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE FOLLOWING POLICIES:
Addressing Wealth Inequality Our economy is shifting. If we do not act soon America will fall drastically behind the rest of the world. With Green tech at the forefront we need to make sure that we are actively pursuing these jobs. We must move to a living wage for all Americans. Our crumbling infrastructure will not only put millions of Americans to work, but also help keep us at the forefront of business. The establishment of a national public banking system will allow us to make sure all Americans have access to safe and secure financial services. This is how we step into the new economy that awaits us. INCREASE MINIMUM WAGE AND TIE IT TO INFLATION A lot of discussion has been had about increasing the minimum wage, but at the Progressive wave we don’t want to just increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour but also passing a resolution that ties the minimum wage to inflation. DEAL WITH OUR CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE Our Infrastructure is dying. The Society of Civil Engineers has graded our decaying infrastructure a D+. If we wouldn’t let someone graduate with a grade of D+ how is this acceptable for America? 47,000 of our bridges have been rated structurally deficient by the Federal Highway Administration. This is unacceptable! We have people who want to get to work and we have an infrastructure that has an average age of over 70 years old. But the infrastructure was only meant to last 50. We need to do something about our dying infrastructure. It is costing every American more money, our safety, and our livelihood. Let’s put people back to work and truly energize our economy. PUBLIC BANK I believe that the privatization of our banking system does not give everyone in our country the opportunity to be participant in our economy. That is why I will be working on drafting a bill to allow our US post office to serve as a public bank for the United States of America. The service that the USPS bank will have:
The USPS will be able to use the interest earned in banking to pay for the functions of the USPS as a whole. PAID FAMILY LEAVE The United States has stopped leading when it comes to supporting families. The United States is 1 of 3 countries in the world that doesn’t offer paid maternity leave. Our other two colleagues, Oman and Papua New Guinea. We are not leading here we are at the bottom. We are the only industrialized world leader that doesn’t offer paid vacation time. Again, we are not leading here we are at the bottom. Regardless of ideology we can agree that kids need both parents in their lives. Maternity leave, paternity leave, and paid vacation gives families more time together building better children and in turn a better nation. Stand with us in turning the United States into a leader again. Animal Rights Most Americans believe that animals should be treated fairly and do not deserve a life of suffering and abuse. That is why our campaign is dedicated to give basic dignity and respect to the animals that share our planet with us. We must ensure basic protections through policy. Our campaign would be proud to produce policy that protects animals, as well as strengthen existing policies. INCREASE TRANSPARENCY:
LEGISLATION TO PROTECT ANIMALS:
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jose Caballero 2020 campaign website, "Blueprint for the Future," accessed February 7, 2020
