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Jordan Fontenello
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Jordan Fontenello (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Minnesota House of Representatives to represent District 28B. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Fontenello completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jordan Fontenello was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He earned an associate degree from Rochester Community & Technical College in 2008, and he took classes at Winona State University. His professional experience includes working as a professional customer service supervisor and as a radiologic technologist. Fontenello served in the U.S. Army from 1989 to 1995.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Minnesota House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Minnesota House of Representatives District 28B
Incumbent Greg Davids defeated Jordan Fontenello in the general election for Minnesota House of Representatives District 28B on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Greg Davids (R) | 63.7 | 14,711 |
 | Jordan Fontenello (D)  | 36.1 | 8,344 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 49 | ||
| Total votes: 23,104 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Jordan Fontenello advanced from the Democratic primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 28B.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Greg Davids advanced from the Republican primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 28B.
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jordan Fontenello completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fontenello'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 49 years old. I have been a resident of SE MN for over 20 years. I live in Greenleafton with my wife and son. I went to college at RCTC and WSU. I volunteered for the military, serving in both the Minnesota and Michigan Army National Guard. I was a Radiologic Technologist for many years at two different hospitals. I've worked in retail as a Customer Service Supervisor for a long time. I enjoy driving around and exploring the countryside with my family, woodworking, reading, watching movies, and writing critical expositions for my Facebook blog.
- Fairness. Having some people be 'more equal than others' is a recipe for eventual disaster and the certain demise of that civilization. All people must be treated fairly regardless of any label. All policies, laws, and regulations must be fair in their treatment of people.
- Opportunity. Providing every human being with the Eight Basic Necessities (Food, Shelter, Clothing, Healthcare, Education, Employment, Communication, Transportation) will automatically enable everyone to begin accessing the same level of Opportunity that was once only given to those who could economically afford it by using money as a form of power and repression. Opportunity to succeed to the best of one's abilities must be our next goal as a species if we are to move to the next level of existence.
- Justice. Al forms of justice must be provided to all people in order to effectively implement Fairness and Opportunity throughout all of humanity. Leaving some out, or behind, or trampling their inherent Human Rights, for any reason is unacceptable and must be countered at the first sign of negative, lacking, or unfair Justice. The universal application of Justice, Fairness, and Opportunity will enable human beings to ascend to the next level of our collective existence.
I'll use whatever time I'm granted as your Representative to do that job: To stand for you so your voices are heard & acknowledged - to ensure 100% unrestricted access to healthcare for every human being; to grant every person the education that they need and want; to provide a safe, decent, affordable home for you and your family; to remove the difficulties facing our farmers; to make COVID19 relief an emergency; to implement all necessary procedures for reversal of global warming; to pass the ERA; and many others. To provide every single human being the Eight Basic Necessities of Living: Food, Shelter, Clothing, Healthcare, Education, Employment, Communication, Transportation. Once those are had by all, then the entirety of humanity can move forward into the next phase of our existence where every person uses their time to better themselves, their family, their community, their planet.
Integrity. Honor. High moral fiber, moral courage, and ethical standing. Fairness. Justice. Perseverance. Empathy. Understanding. Decency. Compassion.
Mettle. Resolve. Willingness and ability to work with others. Patience. Desire to find out what the people want and then combine the information with what others are discovering in order to produce the best possible policies, programs, plans, protections, and laws that will benefit the most. As Andrew Shepherd said in the film 'The American President': "Being President is ENTIRELY about character."
Mettle. Resolve. Willingness and ability to work with others. Patience. Desire to find out what the people want and then combine the information with what others are discovering in order to produce the best possible policies, programs, plans, protections, and laws that will benefit the most. As Andrew Shepherd said in the film 'The American President': "Being President is ENTIRELY about character."
I would sorely love to leave this planet in better shape than it was when I was elected. I would dearly love to see humanity truly understand that we're all human beings and we all deserve basic human rights, regardless of whatever religious story you want to believe in, or your tribe, or your skin color, or your political party, or any other thing that people can come up with to separate and segregate and shun and differentiate people from one another: We are all human beings, period. This is the only planet that HAS life existing on it as far as we know; we'd better start acting like it and actually take care of each other and this planet, otherwise it'll be the only planet in the universe that HAD life on it. We've got to stop believing in fairy tales, in lies, in fantasies, in conspiracies, and instead start to focus on our similarities, and how we can take our differences and make them be our strengths. We've got to stop worshipping money as the holy grail of existence. We've got to stop clamoring for dollar bills, because it is causing us no end of strife and agony. We cannot continue to do the same things over and over and suddenly expect a different outcome. We MUST CHANGE if we are to survive and thrive.
I remember the morning that the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up over the ocean. I was in high school - I think the class was might have been Civics. Another student opened the classroom door and interrupted the lesson to say that the Space Shuttle had just exploded. I was 14.
Superman. He has enormous power, yet uses it only for good. His is a story of absolute power NOT corrupting absolutely. Superman's moral and ethical fiber cannot be questioned.
Communication. Understanding. Negotiation. Compromise. Resolution. Whomever the Governor is and whomever the legislators are should not matter - it is a matter of understanding what the CITIZENS want and then working towards the majority's needs (most of the time - there will always be exceptions where either the majority is not working in the best interests of the entire society, or that the minority has a stronger case for improving the circumstances of a particular segment of the population, which will warrant possibly overriding the initial will of the people making the case.) Representatives and Senators are elected to speak for the PEOPLE, not for themselves. They are individuals no different or more or less important than any other single citizen. It is their job to be the voice for the people they stand for, to give voice to all those who elected them, and for all those who didn't elect them. The Governor's role is the same: that person was also elected to keep the people of the state safe, to maintain and improve their economic situation, to increase the standard of living for all citizens, and to work with others in order to attain the goals that the people want done.
Fairness above all. Non-partisan panels of experts who can use the most sophisticated software in order to provide as equal a distribution of citizens as possible. This is a realistic solution if it is simply done without all the whining from the Regressives about all the baloney they spout whenever FAIR voting is brought up. Gerrymandering is completely anti-democratic, it takes power away from one group and gives it to another for the sole purpose of maintaining that power. Would Democrats like to be in control of the Senate and House? - Sure. The DIFFERENCE is that the Progressives will try to make all voting available to all people everywhere equally, while the Regressives will do whatever they can to take away people's right to vote wherever they are in whatever manner they can come up with. The RIGHT TO VOTE is absolutely paramount to us maintaining at least a semblance of our democratic Republic, but while the Regressives continue to push voter disenfranchisement and poll taxes and Gerrymandering and taking out voting stations and ballot collection areas and now wanting mail-in voting and they try REALLY HARD to keep anyone who's not a man and white from voting.
Yes. Getting elected the first time is the REALLY hard part. Once that is accomplished, being re-elected and then hopefully moving on from there has a significantly better chance of happening than if one simply starts out aiming for MN Senator, US Senator or Representative, Governor, President. (Unless you have billions of dollars, in which case, sure, go for it. But Billionaires are antithetical to the democratic ideals that we as a nation need to aspire to, otherwise this nation will come crashing down around us.) I would love to be able to serve the people by being their Representative, and later as a Senator, and hopefully as President. Of course, once I'd had two terms as President, I'd run for the Senate again - no point in ceasing my efforts to help people have a better life just because I cannot be elected more than twice to the Presidency.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 14, 2020
Current members of the Minnesota House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Lisa Demuth
Majority Leader:Harry Niska
Representatives
District 1A
John Burkel (R)
District 1B
Steve Gander (R)
District 2A
Bidal Duran (R)
District 2B
Matt Bliss (R)
District 3A
Roger Skraba (R)
District 3B
District 4A
Heather Keeler (D)
District 4B
Jim Joy (R)
District 5A
Krista Knudsen (R)
District 5B
Mike Wiener (R)
District 6A
Ben Davis (R)
District 6B
Josh Heintzeman (R)
District 7A
Spencer Igo (R)
District 7B
Cal Warwas (R)
District 8A
Pete Johnson (D)
District 8B
Alicia Kozlowski (D)
District 9A
Jeff Backer (R)
District 9B
Tom Murphy (R)
District 10A
Ron Kresha (R)
District 10B
Isaac Schultz (R)
District 11A
Jeff Dotseth (R)
District 11B
Nathan Nelson (R)
District 12A
Paul Anderson (R)
District 12B
Mary Franson (R)
District 13A
Lisa Demuth (R)
District 13B
Tim O'Driscoll (R)
District 14A
Bernie Perryman (R)
District 14B
Dan Wolgamott (D)
District 15A
Chris Swedzinski (R)
District 15B
Paul Torkelson (R)
District 16A
District 16B
Dave Baker (R)
District 17A
Dawn Gillman (R)
District 17B
Bobbie Harder (R)
District 18A
Erica Schwartz (R)
District 18B
Luke Frederick (D)
District 19A
Keith Allen (R)
District 19B
Tom Sexton (R)
District 20A
Pam Altendorf (R)
District 20B
Steven Jacob (R)
District 21A
Joe Schomacker (R)
District 21B
Marj Fogelman (R)
District 22A
Bjorn Olson (R)
District 22B
Terry Stier (R)
District 23A
Peggy Bennett (R)
District 23B
Patricia Mueller (R)
District 24A
Duane Quam (R)
District 24B
Tina Liebling (D)
District 25A
Kim Hicks (D)
District 25B
Andy Smith (D)
District 26A
Aaron Repinski (R)
District 26B
Greg Davids (R)
District 27A
Shane Mekeland (R)
District 27B
Bryan Lawrence (R)
District 28A
James Gordon (R)
District 28B
Max Rymer (R)
District 29A
Joe McDonald (R)
District 29B
Marion Rarick (R)
District 30A
Walter Hudson (R)
District 30B
Paul Novotny (R)
District 31A
Harry Niska (R)
District 31B
Peggy Scott (R)
District 32A
Nolan West (R)
District 32B
Matt Norris (D)
District 33A
Patti Anderson (R)
District 33B
Josiah Hill (D)
District 34A
Danny Nadeau (R)
District 34B
Xp Lee (D)
District 35A
Zack Stephenson (D)
District 35B
Kari Rehrauer (D)
District 36A
Elliott Engen (R)
District 36B
Brion Curran (D)
District 37A
Kristin Robbins (R)
District 37B
Kristin Bahner (D)
District 38A
Huldah Hiltsley (D)
District 38B
Samantha Vang (D)
District 39A
Erin Koegel (D)
District 39B
Sandra Feist (D)
District 40A
Kelly Moller (D)
District 40B
David Gottfried (D)
District 41A
Wayne Johnson (R)
District 41B
Tom Dippel (R)
District 42A
Ned Carroll (D)
District 42B
Ginny Klevorn (D)
District 43A
Cedrick Frazier (D)
District 43B
Mike Freiberg (D)
District 44A
Peter Fischer (D)
District 44B
Leon Lillie (D)
District 45A
Andrew Myers (R)
District 45B
Patty Acomb (D)
District 46A
Larry Kraft (D)
District 46B
Cheryl Youakim (D)
District 47A
District 47B
Ethan Cha (D)
District 48A
Jim Nash (R)
District 48B
Lucille Rehm (D)
District 49A
Alex Falconer (D)
District 49B
District 50A
Julie Greene (D)
District 50B
Steve Elkins (D)
District 51A
Michael Howard (D)
District 51B
Nathan Coulter (D)
District 52A
Liz Reyer (D)
District 52B
Bianca Virnig (D)
District 53A
Mary Clardy (D)
District 53B
Rick Hansen (D)
District 54A
Brad Tabke (D)
District 54B
Ben Bakeberg (R)
District 55A
Jessica Hanson (D)
District 55B
Kaela Berg (D)
District 56A
Robert Bierman (D)
District 56B
John Huot (D)
District 57A
Jon Koznick (R)
District 57B
Jeff Witte (R)
District 58A
Kristi Pursell (D)
District 58B
Drew Roach (R)
District 59A
Fue Lee (D)
District 59B
Esther Agbaje (D)
District 60A
Sydney Jordan (D)
District 60B
Mohamud Noor (D)
District 61A
Katie Jones (D)
District 61B
Jamie Long (D)
District 62A
Aisha Gomez (D)
District 62B
Anquam Mahamoud (D)
District 63A
District 63B
Emma Greenman (D)
District 64A
Kaohly Her (D)
District 64B
Dave Pinto (D)
District 65A
Samakab Hussein (D)
District 65B
District 66A
Leigh Finke (D)
District 66B
Athena Hollins (D)
District 67A
Liz Lee (D)
District 67B
Jay Xiong (D)
Republican Party (67)
Democratic Party (67)
