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Texas State Representative, District 9

Texas State Representative: Two-year term. The Texas House of Representatives has 150 members from separate districts across the state. With the Texas Senate, the Texas House: enacts and amends laws; passes the state budget and raises or lowers taxes; passes proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution; and redraws congressional and legislative district maps every ten years. The Texas House has the exclusive power to impeach officials. Current annual salary: $7,200, plus $221 for every day the Legislature is in session, including any special sessions.

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    Paulette Carson
    (Rep)

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    Stephanie Sjöberg
    (Rep)

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    Rocky Thigpen
    (Rep)

Biographical Information

Qualifications: What training, experience, and characteristics qualify you for this position?

Elections: What changes should be made to Texas election laws to protect voting rights and ensure safe and secure elections?

Healthcare: What role should the state government play in promoting a healthy Texas population, and what steps would you take to ensure that healthcare is affordable and accessible for all Texans?

Economy: If elected, what specific legislative actions would you propose to bring good-paying jobs and economic opportunities to communities that have been left behind?

Energy: How would you ensure Texas has reliable, affordable energy while protecting the environment?

Water: What strategies would you support to secure Texas’s long-term water supply and manage growing demand over the next several decades?

Education: What policies would you support to ensure all Texas students have access to quality public education, regardless of school choice policies?

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My background includes strong research skills, the ability to evaluate complex systems, and a commitment to informed decision-making rather than ideology. I take the time to research issues.

Texas must protect the fundamental right to vote while ensuring elections become secure, transparent, and trusted by the public. My primary concern with elections surrounds the fact that elections are fed into a computing system, based out of the country. Election results should be available and totaled within 24 hours, with a paper trail. Computing being sent overseas should be illegal.
The state should support affordable, accessible healthcare by strengthening local and rural care, promoting prevention and transparency, and protecting patient choice. A healthy Texas depends on clean environments, informed communities, and insurance provider policies that prioritize people over bureaucracy.

Everyone is being negatively impacted with the current state of big insurance.
I would support policies that strengthen small business and prioritize farming, improve infrastructure, and ensure economic incentives deliver real local jobs.

Sustainable growth comes from building eco systems within each county first. We, as a community need to educate ourselves on incoming data center dynamics, and how this will affect local farming, water supply and pollution.
LAND.WATER.AIR. Ensuring reliable, affordable energy in Texas must go hand in hand with protecting land, water, and air — because energy policy affects far more than just the power grid.

The state’s role should be to balance reliability, affordability, and environmental stewardship, while respecting private property rights

If elected, I would support laws that protect our land, water and air.
Texas water policies are behind the times. Water is my passion. The Great Texas Water Wars are one of my top priorities, period.

I am extremely concerned with our aquifers and we need to ensure that our farm land is safe from big industry tapping our water supply at an industrial rate, which would deplete at a rate faster than the renewal could withstand.

Texas land owner rights are our priority
Supporting teachers requires both adequate funding and transparency.

I support funding audits that ensure education dollars are reaching classrooms, educators, and students rather than being diverted into administrative overhead. Teachers do their best work when they are properly supported, respected, and given the resources they need to focus on teaching. Let's peel this back and find our way

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