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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">&nbsp;=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/06/21/stories/1060056345</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">GOP threatens to sue Calif. over climate rule for insurers</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Benjamin Hulac, E&E News reporter</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Published: Wednesday, June 21, 2017</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Twelve Republican attorneys general and Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) demanded Monday that the California insurance commissioner halt a program requiring companies to disclose their investments in fossil fuels.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">They called the program misguided and inflammatory, and they threatened to file a lawsuit if it continues to be used. The Republican officials made their demands related to the Climate Risk Carbon Initiative in a letter yesterday to California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jones announced the climate disclosure effort in January 2016. He said falling coal prices present financial hazards, and he asked insurance companies to "voluntarily" sell their stakes in thermal coal. He also required insurers to turn over data about their fossil fuel investments.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That has chafed Republicans, who claim that California's requirements are heavy-handed and ideological. They say the program is not about the financial stability of insurers — the traditional jurisdiction of insurance regulators.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Rather, your call for divestment and attempt to publicly shame those who invest in American energy appears to be driven by politics unrelated to insurance regulation, animus towards the fossil fuel industry and those who depend on it, and a desire to discriminate against those who transact in commerce that mostly takes place outside your state (e.g. coal mining and coal power generation)," the letter reads.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>If Jones does not end the program, Bevin and the attorneys general said, "we will be forced to consider the legal avenues of relief available to protect our insurance carriers, energy producers, and consumers."</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jones said threats of lawsuits would not get him to shut down the program.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"For those climate-denying politicians of red states who threaten to sue me, I will happily defend my obligation as California's insurance commissioner to make sure insurers are addressing climate change related risks and to protect California consumers," he said in a statement.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The interstate spat highlights the massive financial clout California wields in American insurance markets. To do business nationwide, insurers often need to comply with regulations set down by the California Department of Insurance.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wyoming signed the letter.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Representatives for Bevin and Jones did not respond to requests for comment.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>About 650 insurance firms have responded to the disclosure program. More than 300 said they have analyzed their "carbon risk," while 272 declined to do so, according to figures from the California insurance commission.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The data show that insurers surveyed have invested about $240 billion in the oil and gas industry and roughly $10.5 billion in thermal coal.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>"This misguided policy is negligent, politically driven, unrelated to insurance regulation and is risking a certain lawsuit," Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter (R), the letter's author, said in a statement.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Alex Gerszewski, a spokesman for Hunter, said the attorney general has not spoken to Jones about the issue but was motivated by his experience in the energy industry and by his conversations with the Oklahoma insurance commissioner.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hunter succeeded Scott Pruitt, who now serves as U.S. EPA administrator, as Oklahoma's attorney general earlier this year.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
=</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" />Dave Jones is California's Insurance Commissioner. He was first elected Insurance Commissioner on November 2, 2010 and re-elected November 4, 2014. Jones leads the California Department of Insurance and regulates the California insurance market. Insurers collect $288 billion a year in premiums in California, making it the nation's largest insurance market. Since taking office, Jones has secured crucial victories for consumers, including:</font></p><ul style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; margin: 1em 0px; list-style-type: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Saved California consumers and businesses over $2.66 billion in premiums by regulating rates for auto, homeowners and other property and casualty insurance;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Implementing healthcare reform, including market reforms to protect consumers and expand access to health insurance;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Issued emergency regulations establishing stronger requirements for health insurers to create and maintain sufficient medical provider networks to provide timely access to medical care;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Saved California consumers $357 million through the review of health insurance rates;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Recovered more than $359 million for consumers from consumer complaints and market conduct exams;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sponsored successful&nbsp; legislation to give small employers more time to comply with the Affordable Care Act;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Reduced medical malpractice insurance rates, saving medical providers $64 million;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Required health insurance companies to cover an essential treatment for autism;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Protected California's seniors with new laws on the sale of annuities;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Obtained insurance company investments in low and moderate income communities;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Investigating insurance fraud, which has led to nearly 4,626 arrests to date;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Won a major anti-fraud lawsuit combating&nbsp;healthcare provider fraud, which costs consumers hundreds of millions of dollars;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Led a national investigation of life insurance companies and secured payment of hundreds of millions in unpaid benefits and strict business reforms to ensure companies end decades-long practice of improperly holding onto life insurance benefits;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Established first in the nation insurance diversity initiative increasing procurement from diverse suppliers by $587 million.</font></li></ul><p style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Daily Journal, the state's largest legal newspaper, in 2011 named him one of California's Top 100 Lawyers. The Greenlining Institute gave Jones their "2012 Big Heart Award" for his work promoting insurance industry diversity. Jones received the 2012 Distinguished Advocate Award from Autism Speaks.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jones served in the California State Assembly from 2004 through 2010, where he chaired the Assembly Health Committee, the Assembly Judiciary Committee and the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services. Named "Consumer Champion" by the California Consumer Federation, Jones was also awarded the "Leadership Award" by the Western Center on Law and Poverty. Planned Parenthood, Environment California, the Urban League, Preschool California and CalPIRG have all honored his work. Capitol Weekly named Jones California's "most effective legislator" other than the Assembly Speaker and the Senate President Pro Tempore. The American Psychiatric Association awarded Jones its prestigious Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award in 2015 for his work on mental health parity. In addition, Jones received the Phillip Burton Award for Courage from the Orange County Labor Federation on April 23, 2015.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As a legislator, Jones had more than seventy bills signed into law, including:</font></p><ul style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; margin: 1em 0px; list-style-type: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Reforming California's conservatorship laws, enacting sweeping protections for seniors and dependent adults facing abuse (Assembly Bill 1363 of 2006);</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Preventing HMOs and health insurers from discriminating against women by charging men and women different rates for the same health insurance policies (Assembly Bill 119 of 2009);</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">First-in-the-nation "green insurance" legislation allowing Californians to share their personal vehicles in car-sharing pools without invalidating their auto insurance (Assembly Bill 1871 of 2010);</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Securing billions in federal funding to improve California's hospital health care safety net and fund children's health care by establishing a hospital provider fee (Assembly Bill 1383 of 2009);</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Protecting private medical records from misuse (Assembly Bill 1298 of 2007) and disclosure (Assembly Bill 211 of 2008;</font></li><li style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 0px; background: url(" images="images" bullet_blue_disc.png="bullet_blue_disc.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Creating one of the nation's largest early childhood education and preschool programs to give children the best possible start (Assembly Bill 2759 of 2008).</font></li></ul><p style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jones began his career as a legal aid attorney, providing free legal assistance to the poor with Legal Services of Northern California from 1988 to 1995. In 1995, Jones was one of only 13 Americans awarded the prestigious White House Fellowship. He served in the Clinton Administration for three years as Special Assistant and Counsel to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. Jones served on the Sacramento City Council from 1999 to 2004.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jones graduated with honors from DePauw University, Harvard Law School and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He and his wife, Kim Flores, have two children, Isabelle and William.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Updated 09/02/2016</font></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="CP___PAGEID_259851" href="http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0500-about-us/01-commissioner/CondensedBio.cfm" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Condensed Biography of Commissioner Dave Jones</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">wiki</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></p><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>David Evan</b>&nbsp;"<b>Dave</b>"&nbsp;<b>Jones</b>&nbsp;(born January 4, 1962) is an American politician. He represented&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California</a>'s 9th assembly district December 2004 through 2011. He is currently&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Insurance_Commissioner" title="California Insurance Commissioner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California's Insurance Commissioner</a>. He is a member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party
(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Party</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" class="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></h2>&nbsp;<span class="toctoggle" style="user-select: none;">&nbsp;[<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Pre-assembly_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Pre-assembly career</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Sacramento_City_Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Sacramento City Council</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Legal_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Legal career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Education</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Assembly_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Assembly career</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Legislative_accomplishments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Legislative accomplishments</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Involvement_in_other_races" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Involvement in other races</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#2008_Sacramento_mayor_race" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2008 Sacramento mayor race</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#2008_Presidential_election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2008 Presidential election</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Insurance_Commissioner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Insurance Commissioner</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#2010_election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2010 election</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Insurance_commissioner_career_controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Insurance commissioner career controversies</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#2014_election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2014 election</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Electoral history</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Pre-assembly_career">Pre-assembly career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Pre-assembly career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones attended&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburg_High_School" title="Carl Sandburg High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carl Sandburg High School</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orland_Park,Illinois" title="Orland Park, Illinois" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Orland Park, Illinois</a>&nbsp;where he served as student body president alongside student body vice-president&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chiang(California_politician)" title="John Chiang (California politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Chiang</a>. Lifelong friends, Chiang and Jones would run again together in 2010 on the California Democratic slate, with Chiang winning reelection as state controller and Jones being elected&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Insurance_Commissioner" title="California Insurance Commissioner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California Insurance Commissioner</a>.</font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Sacramento_City_Council">Sacramento City Council</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Sacramento City Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to his election to the State Assembly, Jones was a member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_City_Council" title="Sacramento City Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sacramento City Council</a>, representing the 6th District which includes much of Southeastern Sacramento and the College Greens neighborhood in East Sacramento. He served for five and a half years after winning a 1999 special election to replace&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Steinberg" title="Darrell Steinberg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Darrell Steinberg</a>, also his predecessor in the Assembly.</font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Legal_career">Legal career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Legal career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before his election to the city council, he worked for six years as a legal aid attorney with Legal Services of Northern California, providing free legal assistance to the poor. In 1995, Jones was one of 13 Americans awarded a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Fellowship" class="mw-redirect" title="White House Fellowship" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">White House Fellowship</a>. Jones served in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Clinton</a>&nbsp;administration for three years. He first served as a special assistant to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno" title="Janet Reno" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Janet Reno</a>&nbsp;and later as her counsel.</font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Education">Education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones received his undergraduate degree from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePauw_University" title="DePauw University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">DePauw University</a>, his law degree from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harvard Law School</a>, and a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Public_Policy" title="Master of Public Policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Master of Public Policy</a>&nbsp;degree from Harvard's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_School_of_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Kennedy School of Government" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kennedy School of Government</a>.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Assembly_career">Assembly career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Assembly career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Committee assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones, a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(USA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (USA)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democrat</a>, chaired the Assembly Judiciary Committee for four years. He also chaired the Assembly Health Committee and the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services. He served on the Appropriations Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Accountability and Government Review Committee.</font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Legislative_accomplishments">Legislative accomplishments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Legislative accomplishments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Jones’ official biography,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;his legislative accomplishments include:</font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reforming California's conservatorship laws, enacting sweeping protections for seniors and dependent adults facing abuse (Assembly Bill 1363 of 2006).</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preventing HMOs and health insurers from charging men and women different rates for the same health insurance policies (Assembly Bill 119 of 2009).</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">First-in-the-nation legislation allowing Californians to share their personal vehicles in car-sharing pools without invalidating their auto insurance (Assembly Bill 1871 of 2010).</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Securing billions in federal funding to improve California's hospital health care safety net and fund children's health care, by establishing a hospital provider fee (Assembly Bill 1383 of 2009).</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Protecting private medical records from mis-use (Assembly Bill 1298 of 2007) and disclosure (Assembly Bill 211 of 2008).</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Creating the nation's largest early childhood education and preschool program to give children the best possible start (Assembly Bill 2759 of 2008).</font></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones also authored legislation in 2010 which sought to regulate&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_insurance" title="Pet insurance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">pet insurance</a>&nbsp;by requiring pet insurance companies to be more specific about which types coverage will be provided. The bill was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and did not become law.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Involvement_in_other_races">Involvement in other races</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Involvement in other races" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2008_Sacramento_mayor_race">2008 Sacramento mayor race</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2008 Sacramento mayor race" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones was mentioned by several people as a potential opponent for Mayor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Fargo" title="Heather Fargo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Heather Fargo</a>&nbsp;in 2008 due to his experience in local politics. However, Jones decided not to run and endorsed the mayor in her unsuccessful reelection bid against former&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NBA</a>&nbsp;star and non profit director&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Johnson" title="Kevin Johnson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kevin Johnson</a>.</font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2008_Presidential_election">2008 Presidential election</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2008 Presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones supported Democrat Barack Obama in his race against Republican John McCain in the November 2008 Presidential Election. Jones' 2011 inauguration speech indicated his strong support for implementing Obama's health care reform law in California.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Insurance_Commissioner">Insurance Commissioner</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Insurance Commissioner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2010_election">2010 election</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2010 election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><div class="thumb tright" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 202px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dave_Jones_2010.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Dave_Jones_2010.jpg/200px-Dave_Jones_2010.jpg" width="200" height="230" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Dave_Jones_2010.jpg/300px-Dave_Jones_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Dave_Jones_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="304" data-file-height="349" style="border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dave_Jones_2010.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2011%2015%22%20width%3D%2215%22%20height%3D%2211%22%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%3Cg%20id%3D%22magnify-clip%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%23000%22%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Cpath%20id%3D%22bigbox%22%20d%3D%22M1.509%201.865h10.99v7.919h-10.99z%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Cpath%20id%3D%22smallbox%22%20d%3D%22M-1.499%206.868h5.943v4.904h-5.943z%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%3C%2Fg%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A"); display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; user-select: none;" /></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones giving a speech</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On November 13, 2008, Jones announced his campaign California State Insurance Commissioner in 2010, a statewide elected office as Republican incumbent&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Poizner" title="Steve Poizner" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Steve Poizner</a>&nbsp;was expected to run for Governor. Jones announced, "The insurance commissioner should be a strong advocate for consumers," he said. "I think with my background and experience, I would be a very strong advocate." He was quickly endorsed by State Senate President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Steinberg" title="Darrell Steinberg" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Darrell Steinberg</a>&nbsp;and State Controller&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chiang(California_politician)" title="John Chiang (California politician)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John Chiang</a>. Jones' main opponent in the Democratic primary was Los Angeles Assembly Member&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_De_La_Torre" title="Hector De La Torre" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Hector De La Torre</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones won the Democratic Party endorsement by receiving just over 60 percent of the delegate votes at the California Democratic Party's convention in Los Angeles on April 18, 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;Jones defeated De La Torre in the Democratic Primary.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones won 3,544,003 votes in general election defeating Republican State Assemblyman&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Villines" class="mw-redirect" title="Mike Villines" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Villines</a>, who received 2,650,383 votes.</font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Insurance_commissioner_career_controversies">Insurance commissioner career controversies</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Insurance commissioner career controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the development of the health benefit exchange in California Jones lobbied to exclude providers from the small business portion of the exchange that he felt charged unreasonably high rates. In particular, he worked to exclude Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Cross of California from the exchange.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;Anthem Blue Cross ended up withdrawing its participation in the small business portion of the exchange<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;prompting concerns that consumers would not be able to comparison shop on the exchange itself where plan designs were standardized, but would be required to compare exchange plans to externally marketed plans. Jones subsequently claimed that other major carriers on the exchange were charging unreasonable rates including Blue Shield of California<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;and United Healthcare.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;United Healthcare subsequently withdrew from the California individual market entirely.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Jones(politician)#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;Blue Shield currently remains a member of the exchange.</font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2014_election">2014 election</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2014 election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones was re-elected to a second term in 2014.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=15&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones and his wife, Kim Flores, live in the Curtis Park neighborhood of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,California" title="Sacramento, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sacramento</a>&nbsp;and have two children, Isabelle and William.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Jones(politician)&action=edit&section=16&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Electoral history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sacramento City Council 6th District Special Election, 1999</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nonpartisan</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Jones</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3,649</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">76.2</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nonpartisan</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alex-St. James Railey-Cisco</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">647</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">13.5</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nonpartisan</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eric Arnoldy</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">412</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.6</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nonpartisan</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stephen Rodgers</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">78</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1.6</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sacramento City Council 6th District Election, 2000</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nonpartisan</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Jones (inc.)</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7,605</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">100.0</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California State Assembly 9th District Democratic Primary Election, 2004</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Jones</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">20,429</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">42.5</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Dickinson</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12,474</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">25.9</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lauren Hammond</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8,732</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">18.1</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Manny Hernandez</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4,348</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.0</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leslie Cochren</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,130</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.3</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donna Begay</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,064</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.2</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California State Assembly 9th District Election, 2004</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Jones</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">77,880</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">66.8</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gaspar Garcia</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">32,734</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">28.0</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Libertarian</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gale Morgan</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6,098</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5.2</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California State Assembly 9th District Election, 2006</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Jones (inc.)</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">61,932</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">70.0</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Chan</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">26,652</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">30.0</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California State Assembly 9th District Election, 2008</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Jones (inc.)</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">92,038</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">72.9</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mali Currington</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">26,622</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">21.0</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peace and Freedom</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gerald Allen Frink</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7,744</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6.1</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California State Insurance Commissioner Democratic Primary Election, 2010</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Jones</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,255,656</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">61.4</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hector De La Torre</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">790,493</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">38.6</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California State Insurance Commissioner Election, 2010</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Jones</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4,765,400</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">50.6</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Villines</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3,540,626</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">37.6</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Libertarian</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Bronstein</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">372,676</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4.0</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peace and Freedom</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dina Josephine Padilla</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">293,502</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3.1</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Green</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Balderston</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">252,301</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.6</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Independent</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clay Pederson</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">198,347</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.1</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California State Insurance Commissioner Primary Election, 2014</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Jones (inc.)</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2,106,671</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">53.1</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ted Gaines</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,651,242</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">41.6</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peace and Freedom</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nathalie Hrizi</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">212,991</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5.4</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California State Insurance Commissioner Election, 2014</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Jones (inc.)</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4,038,165</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">57.5</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ted Gaines</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); 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Calitics. Archived from&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://calitics.com/diary/11539/dave-jones-gets-endorsement-no-endorsement-in-lg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2212%22%20height%3D%2212%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%20d%3D%22M1.5%204.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M5.765%201H11v5.39L9.427%207.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393%209.35l-2.69-2.688%202.81-2.808L4.2%202.544z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M9.995%202.004l.022%204.885L8.2%205.07%205.32%207.95%204.09%206.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">the original</a>&nbsp;on 2010-11-20<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Archived from&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-anthem-small-business-20130720,0,4631280.story" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2212%22%20height%3D%2212%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%20d%3D%22M1.5%204.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M5.765%201H11v5.39L9.427%207.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393%209.35l-2.69-2.688%202.81-2.808L4.2%202.544z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M9.995%202.004l.022%204.885L8.2%205.07%205.32%207.95%204.09%206.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">the original</a>&nbsp;on August 9, 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADave+Jones+%28politician%29&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fla-fi-anthem-small-business-20130720%2C0%2C4631280.story&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" />&nbsp;<span class="error citation-comment">Missing or empty&nbsp;<code style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); 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margin: 0.5em auto; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse; clear: both;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3" style="border-width: 5px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(25, 25, 112) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177); border-image: initial; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Civic offices</font></th></tr><tr style="text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 221.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preceded&nbsp;by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Steinberg" title="Darrell Steinberg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Darrell Steinberg</a></span></font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 298.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_City_Council" title="Sacramento City Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sacramento City Council</a>
from the 6th district</b>
1999–2004</font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 220.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Succeeded&nbsp;by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarty" title="Kevin McCarty" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kevin McCarty</a></span></font></td></tr><tr><th colspan="3" style="border-width: 5px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177); border-image: initial; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">California Assembly</font></a></th></tr><tr style="text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 221.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preceded&nbsp;by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Steinberg" title="Darrell Steinberg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Darrell Steinberg</a></span></font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 298.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California Assembly</a>
from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_9th_State_Assembly_district" title="California's 9th State Assembly district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9th</a>&nbsp;district</b>
2004–2011</font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 220.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Succeeded&nbsp;by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Dickinson" title="Roger Dickinson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roger Dickinson</a></span></font></td></tr><tr style="text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 221.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preceded&nbsp;by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Corbett" title="Ellen Corbett" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ellen Corbett</a></span></font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 298.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee</b>
2004–2008</font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 220.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Succeeded&nbsp;by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Feuer" title="Mike Feuer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Feuer</a></span></font></td></tr><tr><th colspan="3" style="border-width: 5px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 255) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177); border-image: initial; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political offices</font></th></tr><tr style="text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 221.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preceded&nbsp;by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Poizner" title="Steve Poizner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Steve Poizner</a></span></font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 298.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Insurance_Commissioner" title="California Insurance Commissioner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Insurance Commissioner of California</a></b>
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