Category: AG

Campaign Email: joe@jaworskifortexas.com

Campaign Website: www.JaworskiForTexas.com

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Summary of Candidate Professional/Civic Background:

Elected after 2008’s Hurricane Ike, Joe served as the 55th mayor of
Galveston, Texas. Mayor Joe, widely regarded as the city’s most
responsive and accessible mayor in its nearly two-century history, led
Galveston’s transformative recovery from epic natural disaster.

Joe risked his mayorship to support the rebuilding of Galveston’s storm-
damaged public housing by championing a community-based solution to

build mixed-income housing for thousands, a game-changing first for the

Island community. Joe “stood behind bringing families home to
Galveston.”

Before his election, Joe capably responded to the University of Texas
System’s illegal decision to close the Hurricane Ike-damaged University
of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in favor of a new campus in Austin.
Joe sued the U.T. system and its Gov. Rick Perry-appointed board in
Galveston state district court to enjoin its sudden, illegal decision to

terminate over 4,000 UTMB workers; he argued and won a winner-take-
all, pivotal venue hearing to keep the matter from being transferred to

Austin, and he created a program whereby terminated employees would
be promptly rehired. Today, thanks to many, UTMB Galveston is
thriving.
Joe, a third-generation Texas attorney, practicing in the profession that his
grandfather Leon and father Joseph famously pursued, graduated from the
University of Texas School of Law along with his wife Rebecca in 1991.
Joe then clerked for respected maritime and civil rights jurist United
States Court of Appeals Judge John R. Brown. Following a successful
three-decades strong trial law practice in Gulf Coast state and federal
courts, Joe is now a highly sought after national and international
mediator.

Joe and Rebecca are proud parents of two: Joseph, who is studying to
become a lawyer, and Becca, who is pursuing pre-law studies in college.

Why would you be an effective leader in this role?

I dislike phonies. I don’t lie. I can’t be bought. And my reputation
matters to me.
That’s not a campaign slogan. It’s how I’ve lived my life.
I’m a Democrat because I believe open, honest government is a classic
American value. Government should tame the savageness of man and
make life in this world more gentle, not crueler. That belief guides my
work as a lawyer, my service as mayor of Galveston, and my decision to
run for Texas Attorney General.
I’ve been a Texas lawyer for more than 30 years. I still practice law full
time while campaigning across this state. I return my own calls, texts, and
emails because people deserve to know they’re being heard by the person
asking for their vote.
I’ve served eight years in public office, fought corruption in my own
community, stood up to bullies and racists to deliver first-class public
housing for working families, and paid a political price for doing the right
thing. I’ve never regretted it.
I’m running because my conscience compels me to put my experience and
problem-solving skills to work for 32 million Texans. We deserve better
than the daily abuses that now pass for government. If I do my job right,
people will see what real public service looks like again.
This campaign is built on hard work, honesty, and showing up
everywhere. Not on corporate money or political shortcuts. But winning
this race requires resources. It takes support from people who believe
Texas needs an Attorney General who will not flinch, compromise with
bullies, or look the other way when the powerful break the law.
Justice is earned by the work Americans do every day. I’m proud to be
one of the workers and I’m grateful to have you with me.

What are three platform points that are important to you?

Affordability – I will create and staff within the OAG a Division of
Affordability focused on helping young adult Texans afford the American
Dream (graduating debt free, getting a good job that pays good wages,
home ownership or affordable rent and starting a family).

Elections – I will create and staff within the OAG a Division of Elections
and Voter Encouragement to register every high school senior pursuant to
Texas Election Code section 13.046(d) and to reverse decades of voter
suppression wrought by GOP/Tea Party/MAGA Texas politicians.

Corruption – I will create and staff within the OAG a Division of Ethics
and Integrity which will investigate, and with local District Attorneys will
take punitive action to respond to, credible complaints of fraud,
corruption and crime within Texas Government. The Texas AG DEI will
also advocate for term limits, campaign contribution limits, independent
redistricting commissions and citizen-initiated legislation by petition.

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Campaign Email: nj@nathanfortexas.com

Campaign Website: https://nathanfortexas.com/

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Summary of Candidate Professional/Civic Background:

I am an attorney and Senator for State Senate District 16 (Dallas County) since 2018, flipped a 30 year Republican seat.

Prior to my election to the Texas Senate, I served as follows

• Pro Bono Attorney, Human Rights Institute of Dallas
• 3rd-grade reading tutor with Reading Partners
• Chair, Dallas County Trails and Preservation Board
• Bedford Mentor, University of North Texas Law School
• Youth Soccer Coach, YMCA
• Member, Flinn Scholar Alumni Advisory Council
• Participant, Leadership Dallas Program

Why would you be an effective leader in this role?

While my experience as a commercial litigator is helpful, my eight years of
service in the state senate have afforded me skills, knowledge and perspective that will allow me to effectively lead the OAG in the public interest.

As state senator, I have passed 135 bills, including legislation that provided health insurance to 350,000 low-income Texans for the first time, provided free pre-k to teachers’ children, created a program that prevents critical infrastructure from losing power for more than 3 days, increased penalties on polluters, protects consumers from AI scams and invasions of data privacy, throttled corporate scheming of tax breaks, and much more. I have also advanced legislation to reverse the regressive policies that undermine our rights, and battled the legislation that forms the basis of Ken Paxton’s headline machine. I’ve been on the frontline of virtually every Democratic battle, while also passing important legislation.

My experience in the Senate has given me a deeper awareness of how the laws we pass often depart from basic legal principles and the Constitution, and how they often produce unjust consequences. Our legal and constitutional frameworks – enshrining rights and process – are monuments of progress, and as Attorney General, I will not let anyone tear them down.

When talking recently with a Democratic AG from another state, I asked him whether legislators make better AGs. “Yes. We’re better at this.” “Better than whom?”, I asked. Better than prosecutors, better than plaintiffs or defense attorneys. He explained: AGs are not just lawyers trying the cases they’re paid to try, and the OAG is not just a law firm. The office of attorney general is a political position that requires political skill. It profoundly affects public policy, changes the behavior of market players, influences public perceptions, affects justice and safety and consumer welfare, protects (or doesn’t) the environment, upholds (or doesn’t) civil and political rights, advises and guides agencies, and vastly more. To be effective the AG must be able to build coalitions among political forces at
home – including among AGs from other states, and to work both against and with the other political party.

What are three platform points that are important to you?

1. End the corrupt use of the office for personal and political ends. Key will be re-building an agency (the OAG) by hiring great people.
2. Elevate consumer protection and enforce market laws (state and federal
   antitrust and other laws governing business practices). Both have received insufficient attention over the past several decades, and the federal government is all but shutting them both down. The AG combats unethical business practices such as market consolidation (e.g. private equity buying healthcare practices and housing), predatory pricing, fraud, and all kinds of scams. This will help with cost
   of living, too.
3. Make government work:
   (i) protect our rights as people and as a state, which will mean, among other things, suing the Trump administration whenever they break the law or violate the constitution, both of which, alas, occur with frequency
   (ii) routinely partner with district attorneys to actually improve public
   safety while promoting just and effective law enforcement
   (iii) work with agencies and the Legislature and with businesses to make certain that everybody has a better understanding of the rules, follows the rules, operates equitably, and gets in trouble if they break the rules.

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