Candidate information:
Email: JClaytonBOE@gmail.com
Phone number: 732-262-7656
Date of Birth: 5/16/70
Campaign website: https://jessica-clayton.wixsite.com/jclaytonboe
Social media: www.facebook.com/JClaytonBOE Twitter: @JClaytonBOE
Education: BA in History & English, 17 graduate credits in Early Childhood Education
Occupation: Family Childcare Provider
Public/Party service: I am the secretary for the Green Party of Ocean County and the Eastern Region Association of Forest & Nature Schools. I am an activist and an advocate for outdoor play in Early Childhood Education.
Position on good government initiatives:
- Would you support reinstituting the statewide public advocate and making it a directly elected position? Yes.
- Would you support measures to increase voter participation (eg. same-day registration, early voting, vote by mail)? Yes.
- Would you support ethics reforms that would require broader disclosure on financial information and the release of income taxes by candidates for public office, as a means for regulating campaigns and limiting corruption? Yes.
- Would you support changing the nominating process for members of state-wide Commissions and Boards to have panels of nonpartisan experts nominate candidates, with full public disclosure of the candidates’ credentials, and to have the legislature vote on the nominations? Yes.
- Would you support placing a nonpartisan commission in charge of the legislative redistricting process? Yes.
- Would you support instituting public funding for all statewide offices, including the legislature? Yes.
- Would you support making the state legislature full-time and prohibiting simultaneous holding of other paid positions? Yes.
- Would you support reforming New Jersey’s Primary electoral ballots to give all candidates an equal chance of being elected? Yes.
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