Texas Senate Dist. 27 candidates: Republicans

Editor’s word: Isreal Salinas didn’t return a questionnaire.

Adam Hinojosa

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What’s/was your occupation? Are you now retired?

I’m an proprietor of 5 small native companies together with Ezekiel Diamond Firm and The Level of Corpus Christi, an area bar & grill downtown. I’m a solutions-focused chief who is aware of what it takes to breakthrough dangerous authorities pink tape, regulation, and taxation. I consider we don’t want extra authorities in enterprise – we want extra enterprise in authorities.

What related expertise are you able to convey to workplace?

As a profitable small enterprise proprietor, I understand how to chop waste, streamline operations and concentrate on low-tax, pro-growth insurance policies that create jobs. The unconventional liberals have pushed to kill oil and gasoline jobs in South Texas and past. We want sturdy business-minded conservatives to concentrate on job creation and to create new alternative within the RGV. On the similar time, as a younger man, I graduated from the police academy and am proud to have the endorsement of native legislation enforcement teams together with the Corpus Christi Police Officers Affiliation, Nueces County Sheriff Officers’ Affiliation, and Beeville Police Affiliation.

How have your life experiences ready you for this place?

Along with being a profitable enterprise proprietor, I’m a robust conservative and Christian who shares the pro-life, pro-2nd Modification values of South Texas. I’m proud to have the endorsement of Texas Alliance for Life and the NRA’s highest ‘AQ’ score. I shall be a robust advocate for these values within the Texas Senate.

Which issues would you deal with in your first day in workplace?

There isn’t a query our greatest problem is border safety. Biden’s open border insurance policies have introduced crime, drug cartels, and human traffickers to Texas in droves. 1.9 million unlawful immigrants have been caught crossing the border within the final yr alone. That’s fully unacceptable and places our households at risk. If the federal authorities is not going to get the job achieved, Texas should step up and end President Trump’s wall, add the legislation enforcement we want, and safe the border. My first day in workplace, I’ll file laws to deal with this drawback – working carefully with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and my Republican colleagues within the Texas Senate.

What do you see as long-term points which should be addressed all through your time in workplace?

Along with ending the wall and totally securing the border, we should obtain a practical long-term plan that considerably cuts property taxes throughout Texas. Now we have the seventh highest property taxes in America and we should completely decrease the burden on our households to allow them to really feel like they honestly personal their houses.

What’s native authorities doing nicely proper now that must be expanded additional?

Our native legislation enforcement and first responders hold our communities secure daily. We should guarantee they’re totally funded and have each instrument they should get the job achieved. We can not enable the novel defund police motion to sprout up once more in Texas. Simply the opposite day the radicals in Austin indicted 19 officers who have been doing their jobs defending police headquarters from violent rioters wielding Molotov cocktails. They may cease at nothing to both defund or jail the heroes who hold us secure daily – fairly than maintain criminals accountable for his or her actions.

Raul Torres

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What’s/was your occupation? Are you now retired?

I’m a licensed CPA and insurance coverage agent and I personal and function three businessesnin Corpus Christi Texas. No, I am not retired.

What related expertise are you able to convey to workplace?

My expertise consists of 27 years of energetic public accounting, payroll, tax  and monetary planning and enterprise expertise.

As well as, I served within the Texas Home of Representatives from 2011 by way of 2013. This legislative expertise is efficacious in attending to work as quickly because the session begins.

How have your life experiences ready you for this place?

Completely my life experiences has ready me for this workplace within the Texas Senate.

Along with the experiences I cited above I perceive the various challenges that oldsters and kids face within the public system. My spouse and I managed to efficiently graduated 5 kids by way of CCISD system and so they all graduated with bachelor’s diploma. So I perceive these challenges first hand.

My 27 years of enterprise expertise has ready me to know the assorted challenges that comfront small enterprise house owners. I do know what it takes make a payroll and to deal with the various challenges typically face by the vast majority of small enterprise house owners. I perceive the function authorities performs within the success or failure of a small enterprise and I perceive what are the perfect practices for small companies as a result of I assist imlement them and I get to see rhem work after they’re correctly utilized.

Which issues would you deal with in your first day in workplace?

On our first day of workplace we are going to start constructing a working relationship with the opposite members of the Senate and key members of the Home of Representatives. That is crucial issue to find out whether or not we may have a profitable session or not.

What do you see as long-term points which should be addressed all through your time in workplace?

• Strengthen our Border safety efforts.
• Elevate the accountability requirements for all of our public training system.
• Search to implement SB 563, the Authorities Effectivity pilot program, in all state businesses.
• Pursue the enlargement of further submit graduate n applications in South Texas Universities.
• Pursue further funding for all South Texas public training to cope with the particular challenges dealing with the vast majority of college students in South Texas.
• Purse the elimination of the margins tax.
• Pursue further State funding for a lot wanted infrastructure.
• Pursue the discount of the property tax in Texas.
• Set up a program in South Texas to root out political and public service corruption. It’s a well-known truth among the many individuals of South Texas that it exists.
• Pursue coverage to make sure that sooner or later nobody individual has the ability or authority to shut companies church buildings or dictate to people what they will or can not do as free People. This resolution ought to relaxation on the whole Texas legislature.

What’s native authorities doing nicely proper now that must be expanded additional?

Native authorities businesses must proceed to make all of their actions and choices extra clear and simpler for the general public to know and skim.

Solutions to KRIS 6 Information questionnaires have been written by the candidates in their very own phrases and obtained little-to-no enhancing from KRIS 6 Information workers.