By request, here are links to Davisite articles about Eric Jones’s bid to unseat Mike Thompson in the House, plus his recent donation #s (as best as I can determine them), for easy sharing with friends & on social media. I will try to keep this post updated. – Roberta
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A free, all-ages Davis tradition on bikes, with zombie skydivers at the end, raising money for local kids who ride adaptive tricycles
(From press release) Davis is a bike town, and on Halloween the bikes come out in costume. The Zombie Bike Parade Festival returns on Saturday, Oct. 31, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Community Park, 1405 F St. It’s free, and everyone is welcome.
The parade (11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.). Zombies, skeletons, witches and whole costumed families ride nearly five miles from Community Park to Mace Ranch Park and back, at an easy pace. Any bicycle works, including e-bikes, cargo bikes and tandems. Helmets are required for riders under 18.
The festival (11 a.m. to 3 p.m.). Back at Community Park there are more than 25 activity stations, train rides, music, bounce houses, crafts, costume prizes, carnival food, a BMX stunt show and the Zombie Kingdom Quest. The Davis Skateboarding Group hosts a Monster Skate Jam at the Community Park skate park from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Early risers can start the day with the Monster Run Laser Run Challenge from 8 to 10 a.m., a free, timed run with laser target shooting from Davis Fencing Academy.
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Davis No Kings Yolo event to focus on early voter power
Local residents encouraged to bring ballots to submit
(From press release) Indivisible Yolo invites Davis residents to No Kings Vote Early from 2-4pm on Oct. 17 at G Street Plaza, 301 G Street in Davis. The mass participation event will build upon the energy of previous mass protests as the group works to turn protest power into early voter action. Participants are asked to bring their ballots to submit. Hosted information booths will provide voter assistance, including voter registration, details on when and where to vote, as well as information on California ballot initiatives and efforts to combat voter suppression. For details: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisibleyolo/event/1029052/.
The Davis event is one of three No Kings Vote Early events that Indivisible Yolo will host across Davis, West Sacramento and Woodland on Oct. 17. The Woodland No Kings Vote Early event will take place from 10am-1pm at the Old Courthouse, 725 Court Street. The West Sacramento event will take place from 10am-2pm at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1500 Park Boulevard. For more information on all three events, visit https://www.indivisibleyolo.org/no-kings-vote-early.
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By John Smolenski
I wrote previously about my disappointing experience at the townhall Eric Jones held in Davis on August 26. I had previously looked at Eric Jones’s website, ericjones.us, before the townhall, simply to get a sense of him and his campaign. This reinforced my impression of Jones. It also caused me to look back at how Jones’s ideas have evolved over time. This made me question Jones as a candidate even more. Jones announced his candidacy for Congress on August 17, 2025. Over the last year, his views have undergone remarkable transformations. He has undergone a significant shift to the right, especially after the June primary. Some major issues he previously championed have disappeared from view. His political values seem like a moving target. I have been left wondering what Jones actually stands for, on key issues.
This is all drawn from ericjones.us, looking at the website as it now stands and earlier versions that can be found at the Wayback Machine. I have provided links for all screen shots.
The issues I will explore here are: immigration; taxes; housing and renting; balanced budget amendment and sunsetting programs; and abortion, childcare, and transparency. I know this article is long, so readers can scroll down to find a particular item they might be interested in.
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By Elaine Roberts Musser and Dan Carson
Measure W -Willowgrove is the latest housing development to come up for consideration under Measure J/R/D. This measure is the City of Davis law that requires a majority vote of the public to annex farmland or open space to our city for urban development.
As you assess the merits of this project, it’s important to understand where we stand today. The state has imposed mandatory requirements for communities like ours to rezone the land needed for additional housing. These requisites include additional units of low income housing, as well as housing for moderate income persons who work in Davis but cannot afford to live here. Our failure to comply with these mandates would, without question, trigger state intervention to force our compliance with state housing policy.
That state intervention could even result in state action to override Measure J/R/D itself. The last legislative session saw strongly bipartisan approval in the Assembly of AB 2676. This bill would have curbed the use of local initiatives and referenda, that are widely being used around the state to block cities from meeting their state-mandated housing obligations. AB 2676 did not pass the Senate, but has momentum, and will almost certainly be reconsidered in some form in next year’s legislative session.
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By John Smolenski
I went to the town hall Eric Jones held on August 26 at Watermelon Music. I came away from the town hall without a clear sense of why Jones is running for Congress in District 4 and what he hopes to accomplish. This emerged as he talked about the policies hoped to enact if elected to Congress. (That he showed more enthusiasm regarding an endorsement from Republican candidate Raymond Riehle than he did for the Democratic party’s goals seemed telling.) Comparing what he said at his town hall to what I found re-reading his website only compounded this sense. It’s not entirely clear what Jones stands for, especially since his policies have moved significantly to the right since the primary, as he sought Riehle’s endorsement. In many respects, it seems as if this movement has happened less as a ideological evolution than an opportunistic attempt to get elected. I do not believe Jones is a viable choice for progressives seeking change in Washington.
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A continuation of the deceptive tactics we’ve seen since the primary
By Roberta Millstein
Last week, a Davisite reader sent me two versions of the same “Eric Jones for Congress” flyer that had been left at homes on her North Davis street on the same day. The one she received seems clearly pitched to Democrats; the other one, which she found near her driveway, is strikingly different and seems instead to be pitched to Republicans, which some of her neighbors on her block are. [1] To paraphrase her reaction, “How stupid does Eric Jones think we are?”
Now to be clear, this is not the first time we have seen this sort of behavior from the Eric Jones campaign. After months of playing the progressive, e.g., with a mailer that touted his endorsement from Our Revolution and implied (falsely) that he had been endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna, he:
But this does seem like a new low, pandering to Democrats and Republicans alike, trying to be everything to everybody, while still ridiculously claiming to be against PACs and special interests — even though his former Silicon Valley Dragoneer Investment Group colleagues and associates have dumped millions of dollars into his campaign via direct donations and a Super PAC. And he is still trying to tout his health care experience as being good for employees and patients, when the evidence shows otherwise.
Why do I say that these flyers are pandering?
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Public Invited to New Exhibit on Native Californian Stewardship
(From press release) Over 90% of the Sacramento Valley’s wetlands have been destroyed over the past 150 years, contributing to today’s interrelated extinction, climate and water crises. Naturalist, artist, and Maidu/Wintun Cultural Practitioner Diana Almendariz is working diligently – with plants such as tule and cattail, and with artists, youth, land managers, and scientists – to reverse this significant loss.
A leader in revitalizing Native Californian stewardship through cultural burning and Native plant restoration, Almendariz brings to life indigenous knowledge that was once targeted for erasure and genocide. In a sign of changing times and attitudes, the Sacramento Bee recently recognized Almendariz as one of the region’s top change makers. She praises tule – a keystone wetland species — for renewing her cultural traditions.
“Tule has been my creative muse for 30 years. This important reed is at the heart of the marsh economy – drawing down carbon from the atmosphere, creating rich soil, cleaning water, and cultivating the valley’s rich food web. By restoring wetlands, we can revitalize the natural systems that are key to a livable future,” explains Almendariz.
A new exhibit, Good Fire, Living Water: The Gifts of a Marsh Economy, opening on September 20th at the Davis Art Center, showcases Almendariz’ multifaceted eco-cultural practice that spans the arts, education, Native homeland culture, and environmental stewardship. The exhibit highlights how she is passing on this vital knowledge to the next generation of Native cultural practitioners – her daughters Ooti Maxine and Christina Almendariz.
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By Bertie Brouhard
“Her” is his wife of 60-plus years; his rock, his foundation, his compass, his true love who always addressed or referred to him as “Lawrence.” To most he was Larry Burdick. But to the many who knew and appreciated his special gift; especially those in his vast bicycling community which included The Davis Bike Club” he was “The Legend.”
Born and raised in Haileyville , Oklahoma, where he played high school football after graduation he joined the Army. Stationed outside Davis at what was later DQ University he met Delores “Dee” from Knights Landing. They raised two sons on L Street and Dee retired from jobs in food service and Larry from a long career in the Nutrition Dept. at UCD.
Our college town with its rapidly expanding university is crammed full of residents who are well read, published, educated, traveled, heeled and thought of. However, it lays claim to only a few true “Legends.” Newsworthy, famous maybe, but not “Legendary.”
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Harvey’s Coffee approaches 200 monthly subscribers, every bag roasted by hand on a machine built in the early 1900s
(From press release) Close to 200 people around the country get their coffee from a backyard in Davis, roasted four bags at a time by a high school senior. Harvey Uyeyama learned on that machine in June 2024, the night his father asked if he wanted to give it a try.
“He had been roasting coffee pretty much my whole life,” Uyeyama said.
His father died of a heart attack on Harvey’s 15th birthday. Two weeks later, the church needed coffee for the funeral service, and Harvey roasted it alone for the first time.
“I’d never roasted coffee fully by myself before, and it was a learning curve. I can’t tell you how many batches I probably ruined that night,” he said. “Everyone who drank the coffee at the funeral was like, ‘this is really, really good coffee. This is too good coffee for a funeral.’ And I was like, huh, maybe that’s a sign.”
Harvey’s Coffee now roasts every Friday and delivers every Saturday across Davis, shipping the rest of the country from the same backyard — New Mexico, Iowa, New York. The business is closing in on 200 monthly subscribers.
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