Qualifications
What training, experience, and characteristics qualify you for this position?
I am currently the serving State Representative for District 142.
Healthcare
Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the nation. What steps would you take as a state representative to ensure access to affordable healthcare, including mental health services, for residents who are currently uninsured or underserved in your district?
Expand Medicaid to employed persons but who are unable to afford medical insurance.
Education
What measures would you support to ensure adequate state funding for public schools and accountability for taxpayer funds used in voucher or education savings account programs?
Texas needs a revised system for funding public education that pays teachers at a level where Texas attracts the best and brightest to the teaching profession. Also, Texas must assure we unlock the genius in every child who shows up at the front door of a public school. Vouchers are simply a drag on any system of funding public education.
Issues
What are the two most pressing issues unique to your district, and what specific, measurable actions would you take to address them during your term?
First, home ownership must be increased and secondly, the chronic underachievement of our youngsters educationally particularly Black boys must be addressed.
