Candidate for Texas State Senate - District 25 in 2018 Texas 2018 General Election.
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Get StartedAs a Senator, I will push to restore funding and access to women’s health and family planning. Women’s healthcare needs to be safe, accessible, and affordable to all women, in every corner of Texas. Learn more
I will be our veterans' strongest advocate in the Texas Senate. I will start with legislation that will provide healthcare to 76,000 veterans currently not covered due to the current administration’s refusal to accept Federal Medicare expansion funds. Learn more
Kling believes that the government should "be ready to support [veterans] with whatever they and their families need to make them whole when they get back" from duty. Learn more
Believes we spend too much on imprisoning people; would rather see "Texas invest in our future and start treating drug addiction and not jailing it." Learn more
Supports legalizing marijuana. Believes it'll greatly reduce the prison population and that the tax revenue in legal sales would provide resources to "defeat the epidemic of opioid overdoses killing thousands of Texans every year and provide some balance to a strained budget." Learn more
As State Senator, I will fight against any attempt to privatize our public education system. I will work hard to fix our broken school finance system, to ensure equity for students everywhere, and to make sure the state pays its fair share. Learn more
Research and investment in desalination technology and infrastructure. Learn more
A long-overdue overhaul of right-of-capture laws to prevent industrial wells from effective theft of water from surrounding landowners with no consequence. Legislation that subsidizes and incentivizes new development to implement rainwater harvesting, grey-water reuse, permeable surface tech and zero-water landscaping techniques. Learn more
Each aquifer system must have its own, independent authority to reflect the dramatic differences between them. In terms of relocation of resources, it seems inevitable that some pipeline infrastructure will become necessary to service the increasing concentrations of population in the Texas hill country. Learn more
Currently our laws favor out-of-state, for-profit developers. Hiding behind a smoke-screen of “individual property rights,” corrupt officials ensure the shameless destruction and disruption of Texan’s quality of life in favor of the almighty dollar. This must be flipped. Learn more
As State Senator, I will fight for comprehensive campaign finance and ethics reform, putting hard caps on the amount of money that can be given to a campaign. Together we have the opportunity to return representation to the working families of Texas. Learn more
I will fight to open the process and ensure that Texas adult adoptees have the ability to obtain their original birth certificate upon their 18th birthday. Learn more
Local leaders know their communities best and do not need the state coming in and telling them what to do. The people who have to live with the consequences of development should have the loudest voice. Learn more
As a Senator, I will push to restore funding and access to women’s health and family planning. Women’s healthcare needs to be safe, accessible, and affordable to all women, in every corner of Texas. Learn more
Supports Medicaid expansion Learn more
I will fight to make sure the state pays its fair share toward educating all our students and to unburden families and small-business owners of crushing property tax bills. We will do this by making commercial property owners pay their share. Learn more
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