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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?
- 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.
- 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. - 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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