Rebecca Jones
Candidate for San Diego County Supervisorial District 5 · San Marcos Mayor/Businesswoman
Rebecca Jones is the Mayor of San Marcos. She was first elected to the San Marcos City Council in 2007. She was re-elected three times. She then served as Vice Mayor from 2012 to 2018. She was elected mayor in 2018. She was re-elected mayor in 2022. This gives her nearly two decades of local government experience. Jones is also a small business owner. She is a mother who raised her family in San Diego County. She serves on the board of SANDAG, the regional transportation planning agency. As mayor, she has overseen the opening of the San Elijo Sheriff's Substation. She has funded school resource officers on three campuses. She has helped San Marcos's fire department earn a top Class 1 rating. Her tenure has also included the arrival of two hospitals in North County. Those hospitals brought thousands of jobs. Her tenure has seen the construction of thousands of affordable housing units. It has seen completion of a $100 million creek restoration and flood-control project. She created a city department dedicated to cutting government waste and improving transparency. She is running for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
Positions in brief
Jones stresses public safety, fiscal restraint, and local control. She points to her record as San Marcos mayor. She says she cut crime and government waste there. She opposes new taxes on driving.
Jones wants to extend the approach she says she used in San Marcos. She wants to prioritize police and fire funding. She opposes SANDAG's proposed per-mile driving tax. She backs government efficiency. She wants a waste-cutting review process. On homelessness, she supports banning street encampments. She also wants to connect unsheltered people with service providers. She frames this as balancing public safety with human dignity. On transportation, she favors targeted, practical transit investments. One example is microtransit. She contrasts this with what she calls one-size-fits-all regional mandates. She also points to new hospitals coming to North County. She calls this a way to expand local health care access.
On the issues
- Public Safety & Policing
Supports funding police and fire services and points to San Marcos's record as one of California's safest cities under her leadership as mayor.
“the lowest crime rate in its 63-year history”
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Supports banning street encampments while directing people to service providers, saying she wants to balance public safety with human dignity.
“public safety and human dignity”
Source → - Taxes & Cost of Living
Opposes a regional per-mile driving tax proposed by SANDAG and says she wants to lower costs for working families.
“lower costs for working families”
Source → - Infrastructure & Transportation
Favors targeted local transit investment, such as microtransit, over what she calls one-size-fits-all regional transit mandates, and opposed a per-mile driving tax.
“practical transit options, not one-size-fits-all mandates”
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Emphasizes government transparency, accountability, and cutting waste, citing her creation of a city efficiency-review department as mayor.
“transparency and accountability”
Source → - Health & Health Care
Points to attracting two new hospitals to North County as mayor, which she says expanded local health care access and created jobs.
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