Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Texas 18th Congressional District in 2020 Texas Primary Runoff Election.
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Get StartedI will work to bring the tools our police officers need to keep our communities safe. I will work for a civics program and safety forum to promote the importance of civic responsibility, constitutional responsibility, and the importance of police and community engagement. We need police officers, and they need us to help keep our communities safe. Police officers are just like you or me. They have a spouse, children, moms, and dads that want to see them come home safely after they have spent their time protecting our communities. Learn more
As a nation, we should ensure that every branch of our armed forces has the most up-to-date technologies, training, and infrastructure to defend our sovereignty as a nation and the American people from any threat that may come from abroad or through our borders. It's always best to be proactive rather than reactive because once the enemy is at your doorstep, it's too late. Learn more
Our veterans sacrificed their lives to serve their country and communities, and once their service is complete, each veteran should be welcomed home and honored. Our veterans deserve high-quality, long-term healthcare to help them recover from injuries sustained in service. If we can spend time and money on training our soldiers, then we can spend the same time and money to care for our soldiers properly after their service is complete. We should also support those organizations like the PTSD Foundation of America and Camp Hope that are doing great work to help our veterans to cope with PTSD and transition back into society. Learn more
We should promote good common-sense policies and a balanced tax system that we govern with restraint to encourage growth in every sector of the economy. Promote policies that minimize government involvement to open the doors for businesses, investors, and developers to invest in capital, employees, training, and innovation. When this happens, everyone benefits. We should support industries that promote certified job-training programs like trade schools that give the worker the ability to train on the job. Learn more
I support school choice for families. Learn more
A stable energy market is critical for the United States’ and the world’s economy to grow. An unstable energy market can be harmful to the economy, trade, consumers, manufacturing, transportation, electricity production, and other sectors. We must have policies and plans that provide for a stable energy market to offer a secure and stable economy for America but also the world. Learn more
We live on this planet and depend on the resources our world provides. It is our responsibility as stewards of this world to implement policies that protect and manage our environment but also allow companies to access and utilize the earth's resources to produce the energy, products, services, and medicines that we all need. To ensure that this world will be here for future generations, it makes sense to have policies and ideas that will sustain our society for hundreds of years to come. Learn more
I support term limits. Learn more
If I am elected, one main objective is to ensure that all the residents of the 18th District stay informed on legislation and have all the facts. We can accomplish this with quarterly Town Hall meetings, social media, and a website that is keep updated to give all residents the ability to inform themselves. I would also add an office north of the Greenspoint District to service the northern part of the district, which currently does not have a district office. Learn more
To fix healthcare, we need to support the idea of a free, competitive market in the healthcare industry with minimal regulation. The concept will force the insurance and healthcare industry to compete for consumers by offering the best pricing, coverage, and service. There will need to be a Public Health Commission that will be responsible for keeping a check-and-balance system to ensure that pricing does not get out of control. The commission should have consumers, doctors, hospitals, health insurance, and drug companies to represent each group. Learn more
We also need to pressure the nations the arriving immigrants are coming from to improve the economic conditions for their people or those governments will suffer sanctions. We should also assist the people in countries like Mexico, Venezuela, and El Salvador, to name a few, who want to remove corruption and lessen poverty, by freeing themselves from an oppressive system. Learn more
When the laws are enforced, giving time for the arriving immigrants to assimilate and time for the economy to adjust to the arriving population, then legal immigration is good for the United States. However, if we do not enforce our laws and allow illegal immigration to flow in like a tsunami, it is harmful to the labor market, wages, healthcare system, housing, social programs, and the economy, which will put everyone in jeopardy. Learn more
We should have a means like a wall to help control the inflow of illegal immigration coupled with our border patrol officers and technology to prevent, slow down, and discourage illegal immigration. Learn more
Our infrastructure creates the arteries of our nation, and we must be proactive and not responsive when it comes to the condition of all infrastructure, locally or nationally. This system contains many components like roads, bridges, water lines, gas lines, oil lines, power grids, drainage systems, communication lines, rail lines, and cybersecurity. We need to ensure that we keep every part of our infrastructure in excellent condition, whether underground or above ground. Failing to maintain our infrastructure puts Americans and communities at risk. Learn more
I support updating all of our Infrastructure coordinated through a Public,Private, Partnership. Learn more
For decades, flooding has been a significant issue for Houston and the surrounding areas. When leadership fails to implement policies that deal with drainage, watersheds, and runoff, the flooding issues only continue to worsen as they have in recent decades as a result of over-development that overwhelms our drainage system without adequately compensating for excess runoff. Future building and development should include higher standards to account for water displacement. These plans should also include more sufficient ways to collect some of the rainfall for use or release later after the rainstorm has passed, reducing the amount of water going into our watersheds and overwhelming the system. Learn more
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