Make America Not Embarrassing Again Hat. Vote Democrat
AUSTIN -- At that place are 12 of them in all, nine Democrats and three Republicans including incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott, all wanting your vote in the upcoming March 6 main elections.
Two others are Libertarians who want to exist on the Nov full general ballot ballot, but the Libertarian nominee volition be selected by the party in April. Another candidate is running as an contained.
Quick quiz: Which of the candidates is a former cop? Which is the former Mr. Leather International? Who has the middle name Secede?
Look through the listing. Make your choices. Contact them with questions.
So go vote. (Click here to run into when and where to vote in the Houston area, what's on the primary election election and other voting essentials.)
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Gregory Wayne Abbott
Party: RepublicanHistoric period: 52 Hometown: Austin
Bio: Born in Wichita Falls. Son of a homemaker and a stockbroker and insurance amanuensis. Grew up in Longview, and so Duncanville. Father died of a center attack when he was a sophomore in high school. Was track star in his senior twelvemonth and won every meet. Voted "About Likely to Succeed." Degree in business administration from the Academy of Texas at Austin and police caste from Vanderbilt University. Paralyzed from the waist downwardly when a tree fell on him in Houston in 1984 while he was jogging, when he was a 26-year-old lawyer. Served every bit a country district judge, a Texas Supreme Court justice. Elected attorney general in 2001. Elected governor in 2015.
Positions: Staunch constitutional and bourgeois. Pro-life. Supports property tax reform, tougher penalties for sex criminals and child predators, improvements in education, 2nd Amendment rights, potent edge security and safe communities.
Campaign funds: $43.2 one thousand thousand, as of Jan. 31
Spider web: Gregabbott.comTwitter: @GregAbbott_TX
Inquire a question:TexansForAbbott on Facebook
Quote: "When you elected me Governor, I promised you a Texas that would create jobs and promote opportunity. I promised to cut taxes, ameliorate education, build more than roads, and have action to secure our edge. With your help, nosotros delivered on those promises and so much more than. Just nosotros're only getting started. Together, we volition keep Texas the most infrequent land in America."
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James Jolly Clark
Party: DemocratHistoric period: 77Hometown: Austin
Bio: Austin man of affairs.
Positions: Supports revenue enhancement relief
Entrada funds: No contributions listed through January. 31.
Web site: None.
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Cedric Davis Sr.
Political party: Democrat Age: 50Hometown: Balch Springs
Bio: Dallas native. Has been volunteering in community activities and politics since historic period xi. Begetter of 5. Desert Storm vet. Has criminal justrice degree from Sam Houston State University. Former constabulary chief of Wilmer-Hutchins ISD, and chief of security for asset-protection firm. First African-American mayor of Balch Springs, a small town outside Dallas. Works for Garland Independent School District. Ran unsuccessfully for Texas Business firm seat in 2006.
Positions: Supports closing corporate tax loopholes to provide additional funding for schools and increasing the share of the Texas Lottery that goes to didactics from 27 to thirty percent, changes he says could bring in upward to $2 billion more. Too supports criminal justice reforms to allow people to plow their lives around, expanding Medicare under the Affordable Care Human action to serve more Texans, 20-year term limits on all elective offices, reforms to lower holding taxes and changes in eminent domain laws to amend protect private holding.
Campaign funds: $2,000 as of Jan. 25.
Web site: MayorCedricDavis4TxGov.com Twitter: @Cedric4Texas
Ask a question:The Hon. Cedric Davis Sr. for Texas Governor
Quote: "I am running for for Governor because it is life long dream since age fourteen to do so, and secondly, to inspire a entrada without hate, a campaign is just another campaign if it does non inspire an inclusive movement, an inspired inclusive motion can ignite a revolution. So people of Texas no matter if you lot're black, white, brown, ruby-red, or blue it's our time to stand up as 1 vocalism to ignite an inclusive Texas revolution to protect the peoples involvement for generations to come."
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Kathie Drinking glass
Party: Libertarian Age: 63Hometown: Houston
Bio: Native Georgian. Retired Houston lawyer. Ran unsuccessfully for governor as a Libertarian in 2010 and 2014, and unsuccessfully for the Texas Supreme Court concluding year. Thinks this will be the yr she can draw together a coalition of disaffected Republicans and Democrats to win.
Positions: Wants to nullify unconstitutional federal acts to better protect Texans, restore fiscal sanity to government spending, better defend private property rights, restore Texas' sovereignty, opposes Common Score school curriculum and wants to terminate cronyism in country government by passing and enforcing stronger ethics laws. Supports constitutional behave of firearms without a license, cutting all types of taxes including property taxes and a moratorium on new toll roads.,
Campaign funds: None as of Dec. 31.
Web: KathieGlass.org Twitter:
Inquire a question: Kathie Glass for Texas Governor on Facebook
Quote: "I am a Texan, patriot, wife, mother, lawyer, self-made woman, business organization owner . . . Washington is broken, and the ii party organisation is corrupt — corrupted by cronyism and special interests. Neither volition fix itself. And neither can exist reformed from within."
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Thor Harris
Political party: UnclearHistoric period: 52Hometown: Austin
Bio: LaPorte native. Percussionist, musician, painter and carpenter. Has listed his profession as 'multi-instrumentalist." His ring is named "Thor and Friends" and he plays with the influential experimental rock band Swans. Supports tax breaks for solar, higher taxes for the petroleum industry, has had some pick words for Republican officeholders on his Twitter feed. Endorsed by Texas rock band Explosions in the Sky.
Positions: Supports restoring funding to Planned Parenthood, fixing Texas' cleaved foster care system, curbing the state's loftier maternal morality charge per unit and improving funding for Texas; public schoolhouse organization. Wants to limit the influence of Big Money on political campaigns.
Entrada funds: None equally of Jan. 31.
Web: None Twitter: @thorharris666
Ask a question: NA
Quote: "I don't actually want to be governor, but I don't want the guy who is governor to be governor."
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Larry SECEDE Kilgore
Party: RepublicanAge: 52Hometown: Arlington
Bio: Amarillo native. Air Force veteran. Telecommunications contractor. Ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2008, and for governor in 2006 and 2014. Platform calls for Texas to secede from the United States. Besides opposes abortion, wants authorities out of schooling for children, wants to shut prisons, end Social Security and cut welfare.
Positions: Supports secession of Texas from the United states of america, pro-life, supports separating the state from public education, catastrophe Social Security and shutting down prisons.
Campaign funds: None as of January. 31.
Web: SECEDEKilgore.comTwitter: @SECEDEKilgore
Enquire a question: SECEDEKilgore on Facebook
Quote: Co-ordinate to his campaign website, Kilgore's "passion for secession is fueled by his enmity and heartbreak towards the evils of abortion, both excessive and unlawful revenue enhancement, and social security. His want to free Texas ran so deep that in December of 2012 he legally changed his center name to SECEDE and has been fervently advocating for secession always since."
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Barbara Krueger
Political party: Republican Age: NA Hometown: Plano
Bio: From Eldorado. Former chemistry teacher at Westwood Hiogh School in Round Rock. Republican Party of Texas officials say they accept no information on her. Her Facebook page says: "Soon to be the third female Gov. of the Lone Star Land! STANDING FOR AMERICA IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS."
Positions: NA
Campaign funds: None as of Jan. 31.
Web: NATwitter: NA
Ask a question: B Lynn J Krueger on Facebook
Quote: "People of God rise up! We can create a spiritual revolution in Texas! Let's make Texas the image for America! The radical Islamic extremist want to wipe us out! Let the states stand up for God'due south volition & allow our voices ring out! Allow freedom band! Let the Eagles sing!"
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Joe Mumbach
Political party: DemocratAge: 68Hometown: Houston
Bio: Former Beaumont restaurant owner. Audio-video technician and business owner, Southern Star Satellite and Audio. Never run for public office earlier. Great granddaughter born Dec. 11, telling her to call him "Granddaddy Governor."
Positions: Supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, reforming schoolhouse finance to improve public educational activity, fixing the land's broken faster care system, abolishing the decease punishment, access for Texans to basic healthcare, a adult female's correct to chose an abortion, legalization of marijuana and criminal justice reforms that will lower the incarceration rate.
Campaign funds: $600 in contributions through January. 25.
Web: JoeForTexas.us Twitter: @RealJoeMumbach
Enquire a question: Joe For Texas on Facebook
Quote: "We are the tin can-do people who built the first integrated circuit and the first domed stadium. Nosotros built and we ain the energy business organization in the US; fossil fuels and renewables. We dug a 25-mile long ditch and built the largest inland port in the nation. We have the biggest medical center in the world. And we can do and then much more if we go our mojo back. That takes leadership and we don't have information technology at present. To be who we really are takes vision, delivery, and some courage. Courage like we saw in the response to Hurricane Harvey. People setting aside their differences and working together with bravery and passion.""
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Adrian Ocegueda
Party: DemocratHistoric period: 42Hometown:Blossom Mound
Bio: El Paso native. Princeton University and Southern Methodist University graduate. Father of ii. Quondam city economic program analyst in El Paso and policy adviser to mayor. Primary of Dallas-based Lone Star Investment Advisers, a private equity house.
Positions: Opposes bathroom pecker, sanctuary cities, unlimited gun ownership and wants to found a fidelity contract with constituents if elected. Supports improving the school finance system, making higher more affordable, improving the transportation infrastructure, a diverseness of criminal justice reforms and improved transparency in regime.
Campaign funds: Near $200,000 in bank, most all of of it from a loan to himself.
Web: TexasReason.com Twitter: NA
Ask a question: Adrian Ocegueda on Facebook
Quote: "I am running for Governor to resolve structural problems that demand to exist addressed in our broader government and economic systems that we must pursue together. Solutions to structural problems require new leadership that will focus our legislature on attending to short and medium-term budgetary issues for education, transportation, healthcare, natural disaster response, etc.; as well as, on the larger structural issues, which volition need to exist examined and repaired to develop long-term solutions. Constituents are looking for candidates that recognize the structural limitations of our current systems. They know that our current systems are failing large cross sections of our population and they are eager for an honest discussion."
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Jeffrey Payne
Party: DemocratHistoric period: 49 Hometown: Dallas
Bio: Louisiana native. Grew up in an orphanage. Moved to Texas from Louisiana afterward Hurricane Katrina. Openly gay. Owns a leather bar. Was named Mr. Leather International in 2009. Owns several successful businesses, and says he plans to put $two million of his own money into the campaign. Says he is running fifty-fifty through the party declined to brand him their standard-bearer earlier this yr.
Positions: Supports pro-choice, increased funding for women'due south health, expansion of Medicaid nether the Affordable Care Act for expanded access to healthcare, background checks for gun buyers, reforms in the margins tax to do good pocket-size-business organization owners, and school finance reforms to improve funding to public education. Opposes the bathroom bill, school vouchers and the ban on sanctuary cities.
Campaign funds: Has raised
Spider web: Jeffrey4Texas.comTwitter: @Jeffrey4Texas
Ask a question: @Jeffrey4Texas on Facebook
Quote: "I am tired of politics as usual in Texas . . . We know it'southward an uphill battle ... in a deeply red state. Simply a lot of Texans are feeling like they've been left behind with the divisive politics in Texas now. I believe I can change that."
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Guadalupe "Lupe" Valdez
Party: DemocratAge: seventy Hometown: Dallas
Bio: San Antonio native. Daughter of migrant farm workers, the youngest of seven children. Graduated from Bethany Nazarene College in Oklahoma. Served as Dallas Canton sheriff since 2005, and resigned to run for governor. Served in U.Due south. Army to rank of captain. Worked as a jailer, as an investigator for several federal agencies including the U.S. Customs Bureau where she led a smuggling-buster unit of measurement. Retired to become sheriff. Served as Dallas County sheriff since 2005, and resigned to run for governor.
Positions:Opposes ban on sanctuary cities, universal healthcare, raising minimum wage, abolitionism of the decease penalty, LGBTQ equality initiatives, school finance reform, pay raise for teachers, improved water infrastructure, high-speed rail and public transit improvements.
Campaign funds: Raised $100,000 through January, including a $5,000 loan from herself, and had $40,000 in the depository financial institution.
Spider web: LupeValdez.com Twitter: @LupeValdez
Inquire a question: LupeForTexas on Facebook
Quote: "Opportunity in Texas ought to be as big as this not bad state, merely it is out of attain for far as well many, that'due south why I'm running for Texas Governor. I'm a proud Texas Democrat. I believe skilful authorities can make people's lives better, and I intend to do just that."
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Patrick Smith
Party: LibertarianAge: NA Hometown: Flower Mound
Bio: Tech entrepreneur "with history in Powersports, automotive and cryptocurrency spaces." Touts himself every bit the but "100 pct non-aggression pact complaint" candidate for Texas governor. "Unschools" his three children, letting them larn through costless, undirected play and through life experiences.
Positions: Proposes to allow Texans lead themselves, by doing away with local and country government. Wants to return individual rights, privacy and property rights to Texans. Promises not to take a paycheck if elected governor. Would pardon all not-violent offenders in Texas, and would sell the Governor's Mansion. Wants to legalize marijuana.
Campaign funds: None
Web: NotGovernor.comTwitter: @NotGovernor
Ask a question: Patrick Smith for Not Governor of Texas on Facebook
Quote: "Let me tell them that you lot are set up to lead yourself."
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Mark Tippetts
Political party: LibertarianAge: NA Hometown: Lago Vista
Bio: Graduated with a bachelor'due south of law degree and a masters in public assistants from a university in San Luis Potosi, United mexican states. During the past 30 years has established and operated several companies, including a hydroelectric plant in Belize and a law firm in Monterrey, United mexican states. Ran unsuccessfully for Travis County judge in 2010.Member of the Lago Vista Metropolis Council.
Positions: Opposes President Trump's border wall, though he supports securing the edge with United mexican states with technology and by other means. Supports legalization of marijuana and the principles of Libertarianism, including stopping corporate welfare at the expense of Texas taxpayers.
Entrada funds: None
Web: Mark4Gov.com Twitter:
Ask a question: Mark Tippetts for Texas Governor on Facebook
Quote: "Equally governor, I would seek to eliminate policies that favor large corporations over modest businesses and bring truthful free market place approaches to the Texas economy . . . I want to assist break the two-party duopoly and abound the Libertarian Party. As a candidate for Governor of Texas, I think someone needs to be on the ballot that will oppose the embarrassing behavior of Donald Trump and his absurd attacks on immigrants and edifice of walls. I am bilingual and do a lot of business in Mexico. Making enemies with our neighbors and erecting walls between u.s.a. is foolish."
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Tom Wakely
Political party: DemocratAge: 64Hometown: San Antonio
Bio: San Antonio native. Vietnam-era Air Force veteran. Served equally a government minister in the Unitarian Universalist Church building and once endemic a wine bar and jazz club in United mexican states. Now runs a hospice business. Self-described progressive populist who supported Democrat Bernie Sanders in terminal yr's presidential entrada. Says he will be like "Bernie Sanders in a Panama hat." Ran unsuccessfully last year as a Democrat against incumbent U.Due south. Rep. Lamar Smith, a Republican. Campaign site.
Positions:Running as a progressive Democrat. Supports a corporate income taxation, universal wellness care, raising the minimum wage to $15, abolishing the death penalty, legalizing marijuana, public financing of elections to limit the clout of special interests, universal background checks on gun purchases, closure of all individual prisons, net neutrality, rolling back plush college tuition prices, ballgame rights, repeal of anti-union legislation and LGBTQ rights.
Campaign funds:Raised $i,186 through January. 31
Web: TexansForTom.com Twitter: @TexansForTom
Enquire a question: Tom Wakely iv Governor on Facebook
Quote:"I am running for Governor because the working men and women of Texas take been ignored way besides long by both Democrats and Republicans. I am running to change the direction of the Autonomous party. If we want to cease losing elections, nosotros must stop putting along candidates for office who run from the right, candidates like Andrew White who is running for governor and Mike Collier, who is running for Lt. Governor. Nor can nosotros go along to run from the middle. The triangulation strategy is no longer a viable strategy and as long equally candidates similar Lupe Valdez who run for office from the center, we volition continue to lose elections. If we desire to reach the 62 percent of non-voters and win elections, nosotros must run from the left. Nosotros must put along bold, progressive ideas."
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Kory Watkins
Political party: Libertarian Age: 34Hometown: Lone Oak
Bio: Perhaps best known as an outspoken, Fedora-wearing proponent of an open carry constabulary for firearms who showed upwards in public places carrying AK-47s and other long rifles. He was unable to get a land concealed handgun permit because of a theft confidence when he was 17. Ran unsuccessfully in 2014 for the Mansfield school board, and has served as a Republican precinct chair. Motto is "Love, liberty, innovation."
Positions:Supports legalization of marijuana, null tolerance policy on law brutality, abolition of holding taxes and more transparency in government. Says "taxation is theft."
Campaign funds: $960 in contributions through December.
Spider web: KoryWatkinsForTexas.com Twitter: @KoryForGovernor
Ask a question: Kory Watkins for Texas on Facebook
Quote: "I am running to vanquish this car called the government . . . I believe belongings taxes should exist eliminated and all other taxes need to exist reduced as quickly as possible all the style downwardly to zip. If a service is adept plenty, people will support it. Good ideas don't require strength."
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Robert Andrew White
Political party: DemocratAge:45Hometown:Houston
Bio: Houston native. Son of the belatedly former Gov. Mark White. Entrepreneur.
Positions:Supports teacher pay raise, schoolhouse finance reform, belongings-tax reforms, abolition of the capital punishment, repeal of sanctuary cities law, strong Second Amendment supporter and backs universal background checks for gun purchasers, opposes deporting DREAMERs, wants to repeal a $v billion tax break for commercial belongings owners to increment funding for schools, supports cutting Texas' $800 million state allotment on border security.
Campaign funds:Raised $1.three 1000000 through January, including a $one.04 1000000 in loans from himself, and had $104,000 cash in the banking company.
Web: AndrewWhite.com Twitter: @AndrewWhite
Ask a question: AndrewWhiteTexas on Facebook
Quote: "I'm a common sense Democrat. I'thousand running for governor to bring sanity and reason dorsum to state government, and then Texans can have promise once more . . . Information technology's piece of cake to create division. It takes a leader to build consensus. Permit's have a iv-year suspension from what divides us and come together as Texans to restore our state's leadership in jobs, pedagogy, and prosperity."
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Grady Yarbrough
Grady Yarbrough
David Woo/APParty:DemocratAge: 81Hometown: Flint
Bio: Born in Smith County. Grew up in Tyler. Father of three. Graduate of Texas College and Prairie View A&M Academy. Taught school in Chicago, Tyler and San Antonio, where he retired several years ago. Ran unsuccessfully for land commissioner in 1986 and 1990 every bit a Republican, every bit a Democrat for country treasurer in 1994, for U.S. Senate in 2012 and Texas Railroad Commission in 2016.
Positions:Supports increased funding for public schools, raising the minimum wage to $fifteen an 60 minutes, construction of high-speed track, limits on higher tuition hikes, banning gun possession outside homes, increasing the fuel tax to repair aging highways and infrastructure, repealing the controversial Voter ID law and amend grooming for police to deal with Texas' rapidly changing demographics. Also supports a ban on the "Pay to Play" system in Texas where large entrada donors agree sway over politicians. Opposes the bathroom bill and continued to tax breaks to large corporations. Instead he would utilise that money to better brainwash the workforce.
Entrada funds:Not shown as raising whatever money. Has spent $600 of his own money and so far.
Web: Grady Yarbrough Twitter: NA
Enquire a question: Grady Yarbrough on Facebook
Quote: "I am running for this role because I see many services that the people of Texas could receive, simply are not. One of those services is health care. Texas did not participate in the Medicaid Health Expansion. Many Texans died inside the Country because of a lack of this service. I believe that I can lead a group of dedicated lawmakers to college goals, and achievements, rather than the downward spiral that we notice ourselves. Instruction, healthcare, and decent paying jobs would exist my top priority.:
Source: https://www.chron.com/politics/texas/article/Here-are-the-12-candidates-running-for-Texas-12563267.php
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