Government
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Advocacy & Issues (2022-2024).
Achieve an efficient, effective, responsive state governmental system through constitutional revision and legislative action.
State Priority
- Eliminate excessive and/or inappropriate spending and limits to contributions to promote equitable competition among candidates. Strengthen accountability and combat undue influence.
- Support revision of the Texas Constitution to make it a framework of basic law. Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. Increase the effectiveness of the executive department and the efficiency of the legislature. Support the appointment/retention method and/or nonpartisan election of the judiciary.
- Promote adequate and fair funding for major state responsibilities, equitable taxation and increased accountability.
- Protect against unreasonable foreclosure on homesteads, priority of payments, and election safeguards.
- Support regulation of payday and auto title loan businesses to function as a consumer service and a successful business.
Public School Finance/Testing/Accountability:
- Promote adequate state funding for public schools to ensure that all Texas school children receive a high-quality education. Oppose a voucher system. Support achievement tests that measure individual master and proficiency for diagnostic purposes, and a fair, nonpunitive accountability system.
- Achieve an effective method for drawing non-partisan boundaries for legislative districts.
- Support increased county authority in order to better manage growth in urbanizing areas.
Voting Rights and Election Laws:
- Priority Issue - Support every citizen's right to vote (including online voter registration and same-day registration), uniformly enforced election procedures, clearly stated election laws that facilitate voter engagement and turnout.