Qualifications: What training, experience and characteristics qualify you for this position?
ISSUES: What are the two (2) most pressing issues that you will face in the office that you seek? Describe your specific plans/ideas for addressing these issues.
Ann Johnson
During my three terms in the state legislature, I have successfully cut through the gridlock in Texas to provide life-saving abortion protections, address public safety, reform our criminal justice system and increase access to mental health resources for our most vulnerable. I have a long history of standing up for the most vulnerable. As a former chief human trafficking prosecutor, I stood up to the worst human traffickers and won, protecting child victims of exploitation. I am a cancer survivor and a relentless advocate to expand healthcare, restore a woman’s right to choose, pass common sense gun safety reforms, improve public education, and fight for our kids. I am also an adjunct professor of law at South Texas College of Law.
My legislative priorities are: Medicaid expansion and access to affordable quality healthcare, including mental health services; women’s health and reproductive rights; free and fair elections; gun safety; climate change; restoring local control, including local control of working conditions, minimum wages and benefits, and non-discrimination policies. We must stop the vicious, ignorant attacks on the transgender community. I will fight when I have to and continue to work across party lines when I can. In 2023, I worked with Republicans to pass bipartisan legislation which clarified and strengthened protections for physicians treating pregnant patients with medical emergencies and expanded access to medically necessary abortions.
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