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The billionaire venture-capitalist backed Super PAC supporting Eric Jones cites faulty time travelers

Mailer funded by the Super PAC “New Leadership Now.”

Or maybe they just lie?

The latest mailer funded by the “New Leadership Now” Super PAC boldly declares: “In 2019, House Democrats voted on impeachment. Mike Thompson voted No.” One big problem: Thompson in fact voted YES in 2019 — check, e.g., Wikipedia.

So, what’s their evidence? Next to the above blatantly false claim — I want to say “blatant lie” — there is a footnote citation. Take a look at the footnote in tiny print and you will see two citations from… wait for it… 2017!! So, apparently, those news sources were time travelers who knew that Mike Thompson would vote “no” in 2019, except they were apparently very bad time travelers (or maybe they were very bad crystal ball readers??) because he voted “yes”.

You will probably need to click to read these, but the first date 12/6/17 and the second is also 12/6/17

Sorry to be sarcastic here, but this is really bad. Bad bad bad. And if Jones doesn’t denounce this blatantly false claim (i.e., lie) in his name, that’s on him.

(Here I have to acknowledge that perhaps he was wrong in 2017. But 2017 isn’t 2019, both in fact and in context of the things that Donald Trump had done or had yet to do.)

The last I checked, the New Leadership Now Super PAC had poured more than $1.5 million into Jones’s campaign. That’s bad enough, but this is really dirty, ugly politics.

Downloaded on May 16, 2026 from https://www.fec.gov/data/independent-expenditures/?two_year_transaction_period=2026&data_type=efiling&committee_id=C00900993&is_notice=true&most_recent=true

See earlier articles about Jones’s background, donors, and the Super PAC funding ads for him here:

https://davisite.org/2026/04/19/who-is-eric-jones-the-candidate-seeking-to-unseat-mike-thompson-in-congress/

https://davisite.org/2026/04/25/eric-joness-close-ties-to-a-super-pac/

https://davisite.org/2026/04/30/super-pac-has-now-poured-over-1-1-million-dollars-into-ads-supporting-eric-jones/

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9 responses to “The billionaire venture-capitalist backed Super PAC supporting Eric Jones cites faulty time travelers”

  1. Dave Bakay

    Should be thd last straw – except it’s too big for that.

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    1. Roberta Millstein

      Right… Hardly a straw, more like a ton of bricks. The camel has been flattened.

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  2. Roberta Millstein

    Just a bit of a follow-up. There was second mailer yesterday that talked about other purported votes of Thompson’s… from 2008!! But once again you have to read the literal fine print, the footnote, in order to see that. Is that the best they can do, to dredge up votes from almost 20 years ago, votes that were in accord with most of his fellow Democrats? It feels like they are really reaching here.

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  3. jacquelinsiegel

    IndivisibleYOLO has endorsed Eric Jones. Very disappointed in them.

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  4. Sue Greenwald

    Great investigative journalism, Roberta. I thought they hit an all-time low when they attacked Thompson for taking money from “corporate PACS”, when Jones himself had much greater support of a SuperPac — a SuperPac organized by his own venture capital cronies. Is he going to say: “I tried to stop them but they wouldn’t listen to me”? Sure.

    And then there’s the platform. He’s promising to give each “middle-class family” a $10,000.00 check as a “tax rebate”. But he doesn’t say a word in his platform about raising taxes on the wealthy, or about cutting the military budget, or ending the Iran war. So there would have to be huge service cuts to fund this. This sounds more like a Republican platform than a progressive platform. Which is fine. But it isn’t fine that he is being supported some Yolo County progressive groups.

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    1. Roberta Millstein

      Whatever he says, he needs to say it publicly… And I have not heard a peep. And if he were going to say something, he should’ve said it said it when the money first started getting spent, not after $1.5 million has already been spent.

      And agreed, this is a new low. I can only wonder what is next.

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      1. Sue Greenwald

        What’s next? Well, for one, I just noticed Eric Jones’ platform section on artificial intelligence. Is it new? Anyway, California has much stronger regulation for artificial intelligence and AI data center infrastructure than other states do. Eric Jones now says that we desperately need to beat China, so he wants to institute uniform federal regulations for artificial intelligence, and to take away the ability of states to set our own standards.

        What’s wrong with that? The problem is that there will never be the political support for federal standards as protective as our state standards. As is the case with auto emissions standards, progressive Californians want the ability to set our own standards for data privacy, AI data center infrastructure, etc. And it is noteworthy that Eric Jones emphasises that he wants the industry to be major players in setting the uniform federal standards.

        This campaign promise will certainly make Jones’ venture capital and high tech donors happy, but progressive Californians — not so much.

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