Texas State Representative, District 88
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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John Browning
(Rep)
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Ken King
(Rep)
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?
Farmer, rancher and landowner. Graduate of South Plains College attended Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University.
President of a small Oil and Gas Company. Serving the community.
Voter Identification. Will promote new legislation where Texas should be assured that all voters are United States citizens.
1) We need State laws to align with Federal law so that the Rural hospitals do not have conflicting regulations.
2) Better training encouraging heath care professionals are trained in Texas Stay in Texas. This could be done with scholarships.
3)Promote rural health care with less regulations so that rural hospitals can run with less administrative staff.
Water! We need water for better paying Jobs and better Real-estate values and prosperity. There are abundant resources outside of Texas that could be used to build our natural resources and give us better industry and promote safe and abundant food supplies.
Texas should be promoting Natural Gas and Clean coal for more affordable energy. Wind and Solar are good however Texas needs affordable reliable energy too.
I have relationships with members of water boards in other states. Texas needs to be negotiating with others that have abundant water and plan the infrastructure needs to deliver abundant water sources to Texas. "You can't conserver your way to prosperity"
Higher teacher pay will ensure that the brightest minds in the state are teaching our children. We should be paying our teachers well and requiring them to have the best education possible. We must be promoting qualified, certified teachers. Without good pay our potential teachers will look at other industries that pay better. Less Administrative. More basics. Reading, WRITING and math.
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