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Several prominent party leaders spoke at the Lady Bird Breakfast at the Hotel Paso del Norte on Saturday as the three-day Texas Democratic Convention came to a close. The breakfast was attended by ...
The party favors a mixed economy [17] and generally supports a progressive tax system, higher minimum wages, Social Security, universal health care, public education, and subsidized housing. [9] It also supports infrastructure development and clean energy investments to achieve economic development and job creation.
It’s one thing to boast about Texas’ economy, emphasis on liberty, and even property tax reform — which is certainly necessary — but education is the key to keeping the state’s economic ...
A member of the Democratic Party, White sought to improve education, transportation, water resources, law enforcement, and taxes to lure new industry to Texas. He appointed the first Hispanic woman to serve as a judge of a district court in Texas, Elma Salinas Ender. [2]
Delegates also elect a state party chair. At the 2012 Texas Democratic Party Convention in Houston, delegates elected Gilberto Hinojosa as the new chair of the state party. Hinojosa is a former school board trustee, district judge, and county judge from Cameron County. [19]
Texas Sen. Cesar Blanco and Congresswoman Veronica Escobar give the opening speeches as co-hosts for the Texas Democratic Party Convention in El Paso Texas on June 6, 2024 at the Paso Del Norte Hotel.
For about a hundred years, from after Reconstruction until the 1990s, the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics, making it part of the Solid South.In a reversal of alignments, since the late 1960s, the Republican Party has grown more prominent.
Candidates in the Democratic primary identified infrastructure, public health, property taxes, affordable housing, public safety and jail deaths and conditions as some of the top issues in the ...