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Tracy Bernard Jones

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Tracy Bernard Jones
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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 3, 2020

Education

Bachelor's

Arizona State University, 1989

Graduate

Arizona State University, 1992

Personal
Birthplace
Los Angeles, Calif.
Profession
Special Education Teacher
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Tracy Bernard Jones (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 54. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Jones completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Tracy Bernard Jones was born in Los Angeles, California. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1989 and a graduate degree in 1992, both from Arizona State University. Jones' career experience includes working as a special education teacher.[1]

Elections

2020

See also: California State Assembly elections, 2020

General election

General election for California State Assembly District 54

Incumbent Sydney Kamlager-Dove defeated Tracy Bernard Jones in the general election for California State Assembly District 54 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Sydney Kamlager-Dove
Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D)
 
64.2
 
119,818
Image of Tracy Bernard Jones
Tracy Bernard Jones (D) Candidate Connection
 
35.8
 
66,915

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 186,733
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 54

Incumbent Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Tracy Bernard Jones defeated Glen Ratcliff and Clinton Brown in the primary for California State Assembly District 54 on March 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Sydney Kamlager-Dove
Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D)
 
56.7
 
64,620
✔
Image of Tracy Bernard Jones
Tracy Bernard Jones (D) Candidate Connection
 
29.8
 
34,005
Image of Glen Ratcliff
Glen Ratcliff (R)
 
9.5
 
10,880
Image of Clinton Brown
Clinton Brown (D) Candidate Connection
 
4.0
 
4,513

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 114,018
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2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Tracy Bernard Jones completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Jones' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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"This is my community. I was born and raised here and served this community my whole life. This is where my children are growing up. I am fighting for them and all the children just like them." Tracy Bernard Jones was born in Los Angeles and attended Crenshaw High School. His mother and father were strong advocates of education and community service with strong ties to the activist movements of the 1960's. His family showed the children how to be courageous by raising several orphaned boys, providing a stable home and an environment of love. The Jones family taught him the value of putting service to others above oneself. During college, he put his values to work and became a politically active student at Arizona State University where he founded the first NAACP chapter in the college's history and worked as president. After a racially charged incident, he negotiated and implemented The13-point Anti- discrimination Plan that is still in place today.

After graduating from law school in 1992, he returned to Los Angeles to find his city embroiled in the chaos of the L.A. Riots. To help move the cause of justice forward, Tracy went to work at the Los Angeles NAACP where he served as Legal Regress Council. He worked in the community championing causes of racial and worker discrimination, police brutality and many other local issues.

Tracy will bring the same work ethic and common sense leadership to the assembly that has guided him as an educator, activist and entrepreneur.
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Jobs & Healthcare
I am very passionate about funding public education. We need to realize that every student isn't going to college, we need to get vocational training back into our high schools. Too many of our schools have viable shop classes that could be used for training electricians, plumbers, and construction workers.
I remember in 1981 when Ronald Reagan repealed the Mental Health Systems Act that shamelessly threw out thousands and thousands of the mentally ill, including veterans out onto the streets. This created a severe homeless issue not only in my neighborhood but all over the country. This was the first time I saw men and women talking to themselves on the streets and living on the streets in my neighborhood. As a thirteen year old, this was devastating that one man or a group of men could be so callous to throw people out onto the street that were mentally ill. This along with the lessons that I learned from my mother inspired me to always be organizing in the community and fighting for the lives of disadvantaged people.
Sometimes having government experience can be a problem when navigating our politics. Many times politicians are too bogged down with politics and have little or no connection to actually serving the people that voted them into office.
I believe that the state's greatest upcoming challenges will be dealing with the problem of climate change and how it affects local families, neighborhoods, and businesses.
I met with one of my special education students and his mother to discuss his future possibilities . Unfortunately with his disabilities, his prospects for going to college were quite limited. This young man was highly motivated and wanted a career to move into. I would have liked to advise them about a vocational training in our high school that could have given him the possibility of going into a trade that would provide a living wage. However, this is not currently the case with many of our high schools.

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  1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 18, 2020


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