Kenneth Jenks
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Kenneth Jenks (Republican Party) ran in a special election to the U.S. House to represent California's 25th Congressional District. He lost in the special primary on March 3, 2020.
Jenks also ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 25th Congressional District. He lost in the primary on March 3, 2020.
Jenks completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kenneth Jenks was born in Dansville, New York. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1980 to 1984. Jenks earned a bachelor's degree in telecommunications engineering with a second concentration in computer science from Rochester Institute of Technology. He earned a master's of science in engineering management from California State University at Northridge. Jenks went on to receive an MBA from Southern Methodist University.[1] He has been associated with VFW and the American Legion.[2]
Elections
2020
California's 25th Congressional District special election
See also: California's 25th Congressional District special election, 2020
General election
Special general election for U.S. House California District 25
Mike Garcia defeated Christy Smith in the special general election for U.S. House California District 25 on May 12, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mike Garcia (R) | 54.9 | 95,667 |
 | Christy Smith (D) | 45.1 | 78,721 | |
| Total votes: 174,388 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 25
The following candidates ran in the special primary for U.S. House California District 25 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Christy Smith (D) | 36.2 | 58,563 |
| ✔ | | Mike Garcia (R) | 25.4 | 41,169 |
 | Stephen Knight (R) | 17.2 | 27,799 | |
 | Cenk Uygur (D) | 6.6 | 10,609 | |
 | Anibal Valdez-Ortega (D) | 4.6 | 7,368 | |
 | Courtney Lackey (R) | 1.9 | 3,072 | |
 | Robert Cooper (D) | 1.8 | 2,962 | |
 | David Lozano (R) | 1.7 | 2,758 | |
 | Daniel Mercuri (R) | 1.6 | 2,533 | |
 | Kenneth Jenks (R) | 1.6 | 2,528 | |
 | Getro Elize (D) | 0.9 | 1,414 | |
 | David Rudnick (D) | 0.7 | 1,085 | |
| Total votes: 161,860 | |||
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California's 25th Congressional District regular election
See also: California's 25th Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 25
Incumbent Mike Garcia defeated Christy Smith in the general election for U.S. House California District 25 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Garcia (R) | 50.0 | 169,638 |
| Christy Smith (D) | 50.0 | 169,305 | |
| Total votes: 338,943 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 25
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 25 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Christy Smith (D) | 31.7 | 49,679 |
| ✔ | | Mike Garcia (R) | 23.9 | 37,381 |
| Stephen Knight (R) | 18.9 | 29,645 | |
| Cenk Uygur (D) | 5.9 | 9,246 | |
| Getro Elize (D) | 4.0 | 6,317 | |
| David Lozano (R) | 4.0 | 6,272 | |
| Anibal Valdez-Ortega (D) | 3.1 | 4,920 | |
| Robert Cooper (D) | 2.9 | 4,474 | |
 | George Papadopoulos (R) | 1.8 | 2,749 | |
 | Otis Lee Cooper (Independent) | 1.4 | 2,183 | |
 | Christopher Smith (D) (Unofficially withdrew) | 1.3 | 2,089 | |
| Daniel Mercuri (R) | 0.6 | 913 | |
| Kenneth Jenks (R) | 0.4 | 682 | |
| Total votes: 156,550 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- David Rudnick (D)
- Charles Patron (R)
- Mark Cripe (R)
- Suzette Martinez Valladares (R)
- Angela Underwood Jacobs (R)
- Katie Hill (D)
Candidate profile
Party: Republican Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Submitted Biography: "A 30 year resident of Valencia, Kenneth is a United States Marine Corps Veteran and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Kenneth is the descendant of the Founders of America, American Revolutionary War Soldiers, Union Soldiers of the Civil War and renowned abolitionists, WWII, and the Korean War. He is a second generation Marine Corps Veteran. Kenneth's earned a Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications Engineering, MS in Engineering Management, and Top 10 Executive MBA from Southern Methodist Cox School of Business with specialized leadership training at the SMU Edwin L. Cox Business Leadership Center. Kenneth's immediate family is ethnically diverse with English, Korean, and Spanish spoken fluently by immediate family members. His children were raised in Santa Clarita and both are now successful adults. Kenneth's son earned an MA Theology and MBA Finance. His daughter received an MA in Teaching from USC. Kenneth's son-in-law is a first generation Hispanic and holds a BBA and MBA. He has three beautiful grandchildren. Kenneth continues a successful 30 year career as a leader in Telecommunications, with progress roles engineer through VP, building carrier and enterprise wireless, wireline, data, voice, and internet backbone network. "
This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House California District 25 in 2020.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kenneth Jenks completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Jenks' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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A 30 year resident of Valencia, Kenneth is a United States Marine Corps Veteran and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Kenneth is the descendant of the Founders of America, American Revolutionary War Soldiers, Union Soldiers of the Civil War and renowned abolitionists, WWII, and the Korean War. He is a second generation Marine Corps Veteran.
Kenneth's earned a Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications Engineering, MS in Engineering Management, and Top 10 Executive MBA from Southern Methodist Cox School of Business with specialized leadership training at the SMU Edwin L. Cox Business Leadership Center.
Kenneth's immediate family is ethnically diverse with English, Korean, and Spanish spoken fluently by immediate family members. His children were raised in Santa Clarita and both are now successful adults. Kenneth's son earned an MA Theology and MBA Finance. His daughter received an MA in Teaching from USC. Kenneth's son-in-law is a first generation Hispanic and holds a BBA and MBA. He has three beautiful grandchildren.
Kenneth continues a successful 30 year career as a leader in Telecommunications, with progress roles engineer through VP, building carrier and enterprise wireless, wireline, data, voice, and internet backbone network.
- Representation of the People, by the Peope, and for the People
- Liberty, Justice, Equality, Freedom, Soveregnty, Security, Envvironment
- America as a Repubic. Never socialism -astepping stone to commnicism. Constitution as it is written.
Lower taxes, economic growth, community, clean water, education, and healthcare to name a few.
1. Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - America's first Economist. 2. Rethinking Social Policy by cousin Christopher Sandy Jenckes (Jenks) - Prof of Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.
Honesty and Integrity
Leadership. Great listener. I believe everyday is a school day - young or old.
Represent everyone they serve.
An honest man of high integrity that represented all in the district with humility and courage.
Landing n the moon 1969. I was 5 years of age and remember watching this on a black and white very vividly.
Apart from working of farms at age 14, my very first job was working in the Dansville Noyes Memorial Hospital, Dansville NY at age 15
Pursuing an education while supporting a family and working long hours.
I believe in term limits in both the House and Senate. Our great Nation was not founded by politicians. Business leadership and corporate governance experience is much more important then experience in government.
Three terms for a total of 6 years,
Three terms in the house and two in the senate with a minimum 10 year ban on lobbying to ensure house and senate contacts have rotated out, or a lifetime ban.
Yes. I lead from the front and have the skills to work across the isle . Collaboration is the key to representation for the people of a diverse community.
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Campaign website
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California Corporate and Small Business Challanges Drawing from 35 years experience and extensive post graduate studies in finance and economics (MS MBA), Mr. Jenks will straight talk why California's liberal policies and socialist democratic government overreach are unfriendly to business. Calfifornia Taxation by Liberal Policy California's taxation without representation. Taxation disguised as legislation. Conservatism gets buried by liberal socialist political agenda's in CA. California is not a sanctuary for legal, law abiding, tax paying residents! SB-104 a Sanctuary Healthcare Magnet June 10, 2019 Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed SB-104, which extends health care benefits to individuals 19 to 25 years of age, regardless of their immigration status. Education Energy Homeland Security Immigration Santa Clarita Water SCV Water’s November 2019 quarterly well sampling of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) found one well in excess of the state’s nonregulatory notification levels for PFAS chemicals, the agency reported Wednesday. This well is in addition to 28 wells identified during the previous rounds of sampling in May and August 2019. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of manmade chemicals that are prevalent in the environment and were commonly used in industrial and consumer products to repel grease, moisture, oil, water and stains. These chemicals enter the environment through treated wastewater discharge, landfills and areas where the substances were used outdoors. Exposure to these chemicals may cause adverse health effects. “Like many communities across the nation, small amounts of PFAS have shown up in some of our water supply. We have a treatment facility that will be online by summer, and we will continue to seek the best strategies to attack this issue,” said SCV Water General Manager Matt Stone. “Our customers are our top priority, and we are committed to rigorously testing our water thousands of times per year to ensure it meets or surpasses all water-quality standards and is safe to drink for our customers,” Stone said. In August 2019, the State Water Resources Control Board – Division of Drinking Water (DDW) updated state guidelines and lowered the notification levels by more than half, to 6.5 parts per trillion (ppt) for PFOS and 5.1 ppt for PFOA, making them some of the most stringent guidelines in the nation. Economy[3] |
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| —Kenneth Jenks' 2020 campaign website[4] | ||
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia,, "Email communication with Ballotpedia, December 7, 2019
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 1, 2019
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Kenneth Jenks' 2020 campaign website, "Jenks on the Issues," accessed January 21, 2020
