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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12th Edition of our local Davis ballot, summarized to save you time!
By Alan Hirsch
Dear Neighbor,
This 6-page flier’s goal is to save you time as you make your voting decisions. This is my 12th neighborhood flier. I am not a candidate or a party, and I don’t work for any candidate. It is just me, with help from a neighbor, Victor Libet. This flier flows from my long-time hobby of observing council and city commission meetings
This time the ballot is for 12 offices plus Judge retention. There are 14 Propositions, 12 state propositions, and two local propositions: a Los Rios Bond & Davis Housing Prop “W”.
I’ve done research, including interviewing many of candidates, talking to campaign staff and talking to other council/DJUSD observers. I also have suggestions on where to get more information. I suggest reading the local opinions and news articles at DavisVanguard.org and Davisite at www.Davisite.org. Sadly, The Enterprise doesn’t add much value though Calmatters authored articles are helpful on state races and propositions. LWV gives good summary and pros/cons of proposition but not who’s behind them and the spin in the arguments. The BlueVoterGuides.org does an excellent job here.
NOTE: This election, I think your focus should be items marked “?” which are 3 Props& 3 candidate races. My “progressive biased” endorsements are in bold and indicated by “*”
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(From press release) In a televised debate hosted by KCRA on Wednesday, 4th District congressional candidate Eric Jones declared “I’m not from here.”
Jones, a venture capitalist, has claimed he moved to the 4th district in 2021 but in fact voted in San Francisco until 2025 and purchased his $4 million Napa home with a mortgage that described it as a second home. His shocking admission came at the end of a half-hour televised debate where Jones faced questions about his venture capital firm’s investments in companies fined hundreds of millions of dollars for harming consumers, his reversal on policy positions including his suggestion to sunset all federal programs including Medicare and Social Security, and whether he is truly a resident of the community he wants to serve in Congress. In his closing statement, Jones said, “I’m not from here”
Jones’ admission is in stark contrast to Congressman Mike Thompson, who was born, grew up, and still lives in our district. Thompson, a combat veteran and member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee in Congress, dominated the debate.
“Eric Jones couldn’t have said it better: he’s not from here, and he doesn’t know the needs of our community. While Eric furnishes his third home in Napa with half a million dollars worth of designer furniture, Mike Thompson has been showing up and delivering for our District to lower costs for families, protect our democracy, and put an end to this forever war that’s raising prices,” said Thomas Dowling, Mike Thompson for Congress Campaign Manager.
Congressman Thompson is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over health care, tax, trade, Social Security and income security issues. Congressman Thompson is the Ranking Member of the Tax Subcommittee and a senior member of the Health Subcommittee. He is also a member of the fiscally responsible Blue Dog Coalition and a combat veteran. To learn more about Congressman Mike Thompson visit here.
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By Sue Greenwald
[Note: this letter first appeared in the Davis Enterprise, here. However, they did not have room to print the first paragraph, which the author asked to be included here].
Eric Jones has been touting his strict opposition to ‘corporate PACs’ over the course of the entire campaign. But Super PACs are worse than corporate PACs, because corporate PACs limit individual donations to $5,000, whereas Super PACs have no limit on individual donations. So Eric Jones, while sanctimoniously abjuring corporate PACs and attacking Thompson for accepting some donations from them, himself not only benefited from his (barely) former partners’ $3.9 million Super PAC, but also personally donated $10,000 to a Super PAC in support of the campaign of one of his tech cronies.
Eric Jones claims to be a progressive congressional candidate who wants to get money out of politics, but his actions speak much louder than his words.
Eric Jones was a big venture capitalist — a partner at Dragoneer Investments — until only one month before he declared for office. He received the vast majority of his outsized war chest from his network of AI/Crypto/tech-related executives and their financiers and his own venture capital fortune. He is also supported by a $3.93 million Super PAC largely funded by his long-term fellow Dragoneer venture capital partners/spouse. Dragoneer is a huge investor in tech and artificial intelligence.
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By Alan C. Miller
And now, another blog posting from S.S. on the D.V.G.:
https://davisvanguard.org/2026/10/eric-jones-mike-thompson-ca4
And my tear apart:
“I am not fully for one candidate or the other. I see that Mike Thompson’s Establishment-Democrat methods and policies have been failing us for a while now.” — S.S.
You’re not fully for Eric Jones, but you claim Mike Thompson has failed us. Uh huh . . .
“Eric Jones offers a worthy alternative, even as he and his supporters have drawn significant ire . . . ” — S.S.
Can’t imagine why.
“Perhaps the independent, patriotic right can join the independent, patriotic left (and the middle, too) to vote for change” — S.S.
Perhaps those right/left patriotic pigs can fly [see illustration, above].
“While I might have preferred an outspoken progressive in the mold of Abdul El-Sayed . . . ” — S.S.
So, you’d like an Israel hater, by any other name.
“Jones is a populist/progressive, anti-establishment capitalist outsider . . . ” — S.S.
Outsider, of Yolo County, as well . . .
“Blue Dogs are notorious for breaking rank to vote against progressive populists, usually against most everyone’s interest . . . ” — S.S.
Your interest, in other words.
“[Thompson] believes he has been a good steward of an economy and social structure that serves the very wealthy.” — S.S.
And Eric Jones’ campaign is funded by the very wealthy.
“Jones is new, and not a progressive panacea.” — S.S.
What ever happened to those progressive panacea candidates?
“His reliance on market solutions makes his economic views closer to Thompson’s than mine.” — S.S.
The nerve of him relying on market solutions.
“Has [Jones] stuck to his no-PAC, corporate-money, and anti-donor-influence positions? Yes.” — S.S.
No.
“Critics of Jones complain that his rhetoric changes with the audience.” — S.S.
Thank you for trumpeting our point.
“Eric’s position on affordability hasn’t changed; he won’t accept the status quo system where most won’t be able to buy a home until they’re 40, if ever.” — S.S.
And I won’t accept the status quo on pigs not flying.
“[Jones] did not become convinced of the infallibility of foreign countries and their insatiable need to massacre an entire people under the pretext of safety.” — S.S.
Any . . . particular . . . foreign country you are speaking about, SS? Flying pig got your chicken tongue?
“[Jones] is more likely to continue fighting for structural change rather than settling for the decline of business as usual.” — S.S.
I thought the decline of business as usual was what you were looking for, SS
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By Roberta Millstein
[Note: This letter first appeared in the Davis Enterprise, here].
Would you vote for a congressional candidate who had endorsed a variety of Republican positions while at the same time touting his progressive credentials and connections to candidates like Ro Khanna? Someone who: advocated for “immigration reform” for a “secure border”, said he was “ashamed” of Prop 50, called for “sunsetting” federal programs, donated to Republican politicians including a member of the Bush family?
What if you learned that he had, in a very short amount of time, flip-flopped his views on important issues such as data centers and Medicare for All? What if you found out that he had distributed two versions of the same flyer on the same block of the same street, one for Republicans and one for Democrats?
What if you further learned that he had no political track record to back up his ever-changing political promises? That he had been a partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm for 8 years (12 in total), allowing him to dump $5 million of his own money into his campaign? And that on top of that, former colleagues and associates from the same firm continue to dump millions more into his congressional campaign, including a Super PAC, a legal but shady way to skirt campaign donation limits? (If you’ve been deluged with mailers, flyers, and intrusive texts, now you know why).
Citizens of Congressional District 4, the candidate described above is Eric Jones, recently resigned from Dragoneer Investment Group. He would represent the interests of out-of-district tech oligarchs — resisting needed protective regulations at every turn — rather than the interests of ordinary citizens, whether Republican or Democratic.
What if you were to further learn that there was another candidate, Mike Thompson, who has seniority and thus power to wield in the House, who has a proven and known political track record, who has deep roots in our district along with military service, who has legislative accomplishments in areas as diverse as affordability, climate change, agriculture and fishing, preventing gun violence, and supporting veterans?
It’s an easy choice, friends. Vote for Mike Thompson for Congress.
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Jones has misrepresented Congressman Mike Thompson’s record, according to Lofgren
(From press release) In a letter to the editor published in the Napa Valley Register, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren dispelled one of Eric Jones’ most common talking points as a complete falsehood. When Eric Jones attacks Congressman Thompson’s record, he uses faulty and inaccurate data that excludes nearly $7 billion dollars worth of Social Security spending in the district.
Read the full letter to the editor here and below:
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Jones’s shamelessness and hubris knows no bounds
By Roberta Millstein
Recently, I came across a Facebook reel where Eric Jones compares himself to Jesus. Here is a screenshot of the text that accompanies the reel:
[Edited to add: Note that in an earlier version of this article, I wrote that this was the same text that is in the reel, but it is in fact a bit different — I don’t know if he changed it or not. In the video, Jones brings up a comparison of himself and Jesus turning over the table of the money lenders].
I must admit I was rather stunned by this. As someone who is not a Christian, I try to be respectful of religious differences and not to comment on other people’s beliefs. But this seemed above and beyond to me. So I wrote:
Looking at it again, I also notice Jones’s implication that Thompson, who has dedicated his life to public service and who is supposed to be his fellow Democrat, is his “enemy.” Nice. My point, which I didn’t express as well as I would have liked, was that Jones was not in fact speaking any kind of “truth,” much less “truth to power.”
But then I saw a reply from Sue Greenwald, which was much better than mine and really got to the heart of the matter:
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By David Kupfer
Walking across the UC Davis campus today, the sight of the new KDVS facility at Temporary Building 24 (TB-24) brings a profound sense of relief. For those of us who spent the 1980s down in the subterranean basement of Freeborn Hall—breathing in dust, spinning vinyl, and defending student autonomy—seeing the station above ground is a triumph. But let’s be entirely clear: this new studio is not a monument to administrative generosity. It is a hard-fought trophy won in spite of a university apparatus that treated a legendary media institution with utter disrespect, dragging its feet for over a decade in the hopes that KDVS would simply fade away.
The timeline of this transition exposes a shocking pattern of institutional disregard. Freeborn Hall was condemned for seismic issues way back in 2014. For twelve long years, the administration engaged in a masterclass of bureaucratic foot-dragging, stalling, and closed-door planning. Rather than treating KDVS as the invaluable cultural archive and public trust that it is, university real estate planners viewed the station’s massive footprint as an inconvenience. They repeatedly prioritized administrative office space, enrollment growth, and corporate-friendly campus branding over a fiercely independent student sanctuary.
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California Department of Fish and Wildlife is investigating and an open letter is gaining signatures from concerned citizens
By Shannon Hickey
The city’s last remaining vernal pools—the ones on the Measure V (for Village Farms) property that supported a local population of the federally endangered vernal pool tadpole shrimp as well as two rare plant species (alkali milkvetch and San Joaquin spearscale)—were potentially filled, disced, and graded in the week of September 13, 2026.
The attached photos were taken early Saturday morning, September 19, showing the area where the largest pool existed, now a level surface. To give a little back story, this pool was on a property that has been proposed for development since the early 2000s and actively farmed since circa the late ’60s, according to historical aerial imagery. Despite regular discing, this vernal pool continued to pond because it was protected on two sides by a railroad berm to the west and an irrigation channel berm (Channel A) to the north. The developer has known about this vernal pool and the extremely rare species in it since the last time this project went up for a vote by the citizens of Davis back in 2005. At that time, it was known as the Covell Village project and it was voted down then as well. For both the Covell Village project and the Village Farms project, the associated environmental surveys supporting the EIRs revealed that these species were present.
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By Bertie Brouhard
Maybe for our U.S. House of Representatives 4th California Congressional District Seat? Time for us on November 3rd to elect Eric Jones as our new representative?
So … who are we? And who are the incumbent, Mike Thompson, and his opponent in the midterm, General Election, Eric Jones? Soon we need to decide.
“We” of the “newish” 4th District (one of California’s 52) with its 760,000 population have an ethnic breakdown of 51.3% white, 31.4% Hispanic, 7.6% Asian and 5.3% two or more “other.” We’re solidly of the Democratic Party persuasion with a median income of $98,000 and median age of 39.9 years.
Thanks to the passage of Prop. 50 in 2020 our district’s boundaries changed again. What were new district boundaries in 2012 which shifted the population centers to the south and east were shifted again in ‘20 to the west and the Bay Area adopting the bulk of District 5. Today our district is all of Lake and Napa Counties, most of Yolo and parts of Solano and Sonoma County. It includes the cities with populations greater than 10,000 of Santa Rosa, Vacaville, Napa,Woodland, Petaluma, West Sacramento, Rohnert Park and our home; Davis.
Democratic Party candidates win most seats in our district. In 2024 Mike defeated Republican John Munn 66% to 33%. But sadly only about half our population is registered to vote and of those registered only about 50% cast a ballot. In June’s Non-partisan Primary election Thompson received some 84,000 votes to Jones’s 46,000.
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