Tony Daysog
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Tony Daysog (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 12th Congressional District. He lost in the primary on March 5, 2024.
Daysog completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tony Daysog was born in Hawaii. He earned a bachelor's and a graduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and 1993, respectively.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: California's 12th Congressional District election, 2024
California's 12th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)
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2014
- See also: California's 11th Congressional District elections, 2014
Daysog ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent California's 11th District. Daysog was defeated in the blanket primary on June 3, 2014.[2]
U.S. House, California District 11 Primary, 2014
| Party |
Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
| |
Democratic |
 Mark DeSaulnier |
58.9% |
59,605 |
| |
Republican |
Tue Phan-Quang |
27.9% |
28,242 |
| |
Democratic |
Cheryl Sudduth |
4.9% |
4,913 |
| |
Democratic |
Tony Daysog |
3.4% |
3,482 |
| |
Independent |
Jason Ramey |
2.6% |
2,673 |
| |
Democratic |
Ki Ingersol |
2.3% |
2,313 |
| Total Votes |
101,228 |
Source: California Secretary of State
|
2024
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Tony Daysog completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Daysog'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 running for Congress to bring a unique voice to the floor of the US House of Representatives with respect to my family's lived experience having survived the Nagasaki atomic bomb, in an effort to push an agenda for global and domestic peace focusing first on significantly reducing military spending and wastefulness, and then, second, reinvesting savings to more productive and progressive activities but most especially: (1) universal healthcare; (2) climate change; and (3) making colleges, universities, and trade schools so graduates aren't saddled with excessive student loan-debt.
I am in my 19th year on the Alameda City Council, where currently I serve as the Vice Mayor of the City Council. My family’s experience with the Nagasaki atomic bomb is what separates me from
others -- it helps explain the pride I take
in helping to convert Alameda's former military base, and it helps explain my emphasis on reducing
our military budget to achieve peaceful change.
I graduated from Encinal High School in Alameda, where he was Student Body President, and then went to UC Berkeley, where I earned a bachelor’s degree in U.S. History and a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning. - universal healthcare focusing on shoring-up Obamacare so people spend less on an out-of-pocket basis, as well as focusing on lowering cost of prescription drugs
- climate change: dealing with the effects of climate change is a particularly close-to-home issue for
me because my Alameda is uniquely affected by sea level rise because my city,as you know, is an island. But the reality is that every city in this Congressional District is directly affected by climate change, in the form of either sea level rise, groundwater rise, and or hill areas at-risk of climate-induced wild fires.
- making college, university, and trade
schools truly affordable, and helping young adults burdened by student loan debt
I take special pride in having helped convert Alameda's former military base, by making sure we build not only multi-million dollar homes in a transit-oriented development manner, but also set-aside more than 200 units for families that are formerly homeless. I take special pride in helping transform Alameda's former military base to peaceful, civilian uses because of my mother's and her families experience having survived the Nagasaki atomic bomb . . . turning "arms into ploughshares" as it were.
Like many, I became a Democrat as a youngster because of my fascination with John F. Kennedy and the all that the Kennedy Administration sought to achieve in its short time, especially with respect to fighting for equal opportunity and civil rights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BEhKgoA86U), challenging Americans to be act boldly in welcoming the future (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZyRbnpGyzQ), and calling for world peace (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fkKnfk4k40).
The book that has influenced me the most is Vassily Grossman's Everything Flows, which is about the return of a person sent to gulag\prison during the height of Stalinism and who returns from there during the Krushchev thaw, and how he must ultimately forgive those who had made him suffer so that he (and hence post-Stalinist Russia) can move on. While the thaw proved momentary, with the return to totalitarianism previling to this day, the book's message about forgiveness is still powerful.
Like many, I became a Democrat as a youngster because of my fascination with John F. Kennedy and the all that the Kennedy Administration sought to achieve in its short time, especially with respect to fighting for equal opportunity and civil rights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BEhKgoA86U), challenging Americans to be act boldly in welcoming the future (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZyRbnpGyzQ), and calling for world peace (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fkKnfk4k40).
I am a hard workers, and am a good listener, and always strive to work with all perspectives in an effort to generate a consensus that solves a problem and move people forward.
I am a hard worker, always truthful with the people I serve, and never forget that what matters the most is doing everything I can to make today and the future better for the people I represent. I think that's why I've been elected to five and a half terms to Alameda's City Council -- I think that what makes me ready for serving residents of the 12th Congressional District.
I hope people say that Tony was at every stage of the conversion of Alameda's former military base to peaceful civilian uses -- from the planning stage, to the stage involving introduction of new local ordinances to facilitate successful conversion, and to the implementation stage (involving buiding of new waterfront parks, new homes, new transit infrastructure such as new ferry terminal, and new commercial\industrial uses, etc.)
My first job out of college was working for a Washington, D.C. non-profit where I helped network non-profit community development corproations working in lower-income communities throughoutthe nation.
I grew up one block away from the former military base in the City of Alameda -- which is another way of saying I am from what some might call "the wrong side of the tracks." Yet, even though my parents never obtained a college education, they made sure that, with much prodding and hardwork, I would advance beyond my working class background and land on my feet in the American middle class. Of course, I am proud of my working class background -- it what keeps me humble and ever-mindful of the need to work harder than others. It's also what fuels my passion when it comes to trying my best as a local official and hopefully as a member of Congress to "level the playing field".
At its best, the US house of Representatives is an institution that brings together representatives from all walks of life (economic, social, and political\philosophical) in an effort to create laws and programs for the betterment of all.
It's helpful -- but not essential. What matters the most is that an elected official has to have a love for the People and for the ideals on which our nation was founded.
I am running for Congress to bring a unique voice to the floor of the US House of Representatives with respect to my family's lived experience having survived the Nagasaki atomic bomb, in an effort to push an agenda for global and domestic peace -- whcih are the greatest challenges facing the US -- focusing first on significantly reducing military spending and wastefulness, and then, second, reinvesting savings to more productive and progressive activities but most especially: (1) universal healthcare; (2) climate change; and (3) making colleges, universities, and trade schools so graduates aren't saddled with excessive student loan-debt.
Nancy Pelosi -- a worker-bee who is in the trenches day-in, day-out fighting on behalf of the People, especially children.
I have heard a number of touching and memorable stories, including from the other whose son was murdered, and another who expressed worry that the Congressional budgetary hold-ups over the debt ceiling would result in delays in getting her needed social seurity.
If elected to Congress, I will work to make our tax system more fair and progressive: we have in place basically the same tax system that's been in place since 1986, when the current 38% highest marginal rate was adopted. We need to raise the the highest marginal rate from 38% to 50% for the highest wage earners --those making nmore than $700,000. The rampant homelessness, the underfunding of local and high education, and the crime is all related to the fact that we have been spending way too much on the military and tax breaks for the richest, while starving the federanl programs for the homeless, public educational systems, and crime-fighting.
The US House of Representative must be aggressive when it comes to its oversight responsibilities.
- Ways and Means
- Armed Services
- Banking
There was a recent segment on the John Stewart Show, wherein he grills an Assistant Secretary of Defense about the Defense Department's failure to pass its audit for the fifth time. How sad that the military year-in, year-out fails to pass its audit, which by definition means it doesn't know where much of its funds are going -- and yet the DoD's budget grows steadily each year while social programs whither. I will fight to reduce how much we spend and waste on our bloated military budget so that we can reinvest more in social programs and priorities, such as unviersal healthcare, climae change, and making higher education incl. trade schools truly affordable so graduates are not saddled with excessive student loan debt.
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