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Why I am
I’m running because our county deserves competent planning, better fiscal management and greater accountability so we can get needed services faster and more efficiently. As your supervisor, I will take my experience from San Jose City Council and VTA to Santa Clara County to deliver solutions for the community problems and issues we collectively face. Too often legislation is rushed to respond to political pressure without taking the time to ensure taxpayers are getting results.
Endorsements
- Sam Liccardo, Mayor San Jose
- Marie Blankley, Mayor Gilroy
- Don Gage, Former, SCC Supervisor and former mayor Gilroy
- Steve Tate, Former Mayor Morgan Hill
- Chappie Jones, Vice Mayor San Jose and Councilmember District 1
- Liz Lawler, Councilmember Monte Sereno
- Dev Davis, Councilmember San Jose, District 6
- Dion Bracco, Councilmember Gilroy
- Carol Marques, Councilmember Gilroy
- Gino Borgioli, Councilmember Morgan Hill
Focused On
- Expanding services and housing opportunities for the unhoused
- Improving mental health and drug addiction services
- Improving public safety and traffic enforcement
- Demanding accountability and measurable outcomes from our county management
- Searching for unwise and unnecessary spending
- Investing our limited transportation dollars to move people efficiently from where we live and work
- Fighting for passage of common-sense solutions to homelessness, as I did for Laura’s Law
- Continuing to work to preserve open spaces like the Santa Teresa Foothills
Endorsements
- Sam Liccardo, Mayor San Jose
- Chappie Jones, Vice Mayor San Jose and Councilmember District 1
- Marie Blankley, Mayor Gilroy
- Don Gage, Former, SCC Supervisor and former mayor Gilroy
- Steve Tate, Former Mayor Morgan Hill
- Bob Foster, Former Mayor Morgan Hill
- Dev Davis, Councilmember San Jose, District 6
- Dion Bracco, Councilmember Gilroy
- Carol Marquez, Councilmember Gilroy
- Gino Borgioli, Councilmember Morgan Hill
Issues
Homelessness
Californians are very aware of the increase in people living along the roads and waterways. Every level of government and numerous nonprofits have collected...
Fiscal Responsibility
Government should be well-funded and efficiently provide needed services to its residents. Over the years, there has been a lot of government waste and...
Public Safety
For too many of us in Santa Clara County, we no longer feel safe. This safety has eroded as more crimes have been reclassified...
Transportation
We must invest our transportation tax dollars wisely. Santa Clara County needs projects that help us move faster to get where we need to...
Fighting Climate Change
Climate change is real and our generation’s solemn responsibility to address. As a former San Jose Council member, I had a strong record of...
Business
COVID has wreaked havoc with our economy and small business community. As a business owner and the former chairman of the Economic Development Committee...From the bombs in Beirut to in San Jose,
Johnny Khamis and his family have lived "the American Dream. His parents fled their home in Beirut, Lebanon, when war broke out.
Granted political asylum in the US, the Khamis family arrived in San Jose in 1976 with very little cash and a fierce determination to use the opportunity given to them to build new lives. From growing up in San Jose in a struggling, immigrant family, attending public schools, and living in low-income housing to starting his own company, Western Benefit Solutions, Johnny’s experiences laid the foundation for his views of how government should serve its people.
Growing up in a struggling, immigrant family in San Jose laid a deep foundation for Johnny's views of how government should serve its people.
A product of the public education, he attended George Minor Elementary School, Herman Middle School and Oak Grove High School.
After graduating from high school, Johnny attended San Jose State University, earning his degree in Business Management and Communication. He used his education, knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit to build a financial advisory business and later started his own company, Western Benefit Solutions.
Johnny was first elected to the San Jose City Council in November 2012 representing District 10, the Almaden Valley and Blossom valley areas of South San Jose. He was reelected in 2016, winning more than 76% of the vote in the primary, securing another term in the first round of voting. Although intended as a criticism by some, Johnny takes great pride in being labeled "The Numbers Guy" on the City Council because of his focus on fiscal accountability.
Johnny is a devoted family man and 43 year resident of San Jose. He and his wife, Juliana, have made their home in Almaden with their two sons, Constantin and Alexander.
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