State Senator: Four-year term. The Texas Senate has 31 members from separate districts across the state. With the Texas House of Representatives, the Texas Senate: 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 Senate has the exclusive power to approve or reject appointments made by the governor to fill vacancies in state or district offices and to hold trial for officials impeached by the Texas House of Representatives. Current annual salary: $7,200, plus $221 for every day the Legislature is in session, including any special sessions.----------Senador Estatal: Mandato de cuatro años. El Senado de Texas tiene 31 miembros procedentes de distintos distritos de todo el estado. Junto con la Cámara de Representantes de Texas, el Senado de Texas: promulga y modifica leyes; aprueba el presupuesto estatal y aumenta o reduce los impuestos; aprueba propuestas de enmienda a la Constitución de Texas; y redefine los mapas de los distritos congresuales y legislativos cada diez años. El Senado de Texas tiene la facultad exclusiva de aprobar o rechazar los nombramientos efectuados por el gobernador para cubrir vacantes en cargos estatales o de distrito, y de juzgar a los funcionarios puestos en procesos de destitución por la Cámara de Representantes de Texas. Salario anual actual: $7,200, más $221 por cada día de sesión de la Legislatura, incluidas las sesiones extraordinarias.
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Occupation
Immigration Attorney
I received my law degree in 2010 from the University of Memphis School of Law, and I have a BA in Theatre/Speech from Union University in Jackson, TN. I've been a practicing immigration attorney since 2010 and have served on the Aledo City Council previously.
I am running to help restore sanity to the Texas legislature. I am running to protect our public schools, common working Texans' rights to a meaningful wage, the lives of our families and children, the reproductive rights of women, and our great state's amazing natural environment. If elected, my office will be active and responsive to the needs of our constituents, by investing time in personally visiting all corners of the district and listening to everyone's heartfelt concerns.
I am deeply passionate about protecting our public schools from Governor Abbott's and my opponent's (Senator Phil King) school voucher plan, which is poisonous to our public school system and will push our children's education into a stratified, class-based world of educational haves and have-nots. Public money is for public education. And public education advances the public good. For a deep dive into the issue, see our Official Youtube Channel at: www.youtube.com/@Andy4Texas
There needs to be real investment in infrastructure; so much money is given away to foreign energy mega-corporations in massive tax breaks. Make those companies pay their fair share for slurping up our natural resources and profiting. Our legislature should stop being paid off by the big energy servicing monopolies in Texas (such as Oncor here in DFW) and instead hold them accountable to put in the work to protect our electrical grid from extreme environmental effects.
Big Pharma, Insurance Companies, and "Non-profit" Hospital Executives work together in a cycle of paying each other higher and higher prices that are all passed down to the common Texan. We need a healthcare overhaul. We need Medicare for All, and we need Medicare to be able to negotiate all drug prices. Today's $35 insulin, thanks to the Biden Administration's unshackling of Medicare's negotiating capabilities, is just a taste of what our system could be like!
We need to stop demonizing, based on lies, the electronic voting systems that have improved our election security and efficiency over the years. These systems are far more reliable than hand-counting. We should expand access to vote by mail. We need to fight efforts to take voting sites off of college campuses, and other efforts to depress the vote.
