Democrats sense an opportunity to flip the last two Texas House seats in Dallas County held by Republicans: Reps. Morgan Meyer and Angie Chen Button.
Democrats came within a whisker of defeating Angie Chen Button and Morgan Meyer in the 2020 election, and they’re back this November hoping to take out the last two Dallas County Republicans in the Texas House., a 28-year-old former Miss Texas and law school graduate who would become the first Filipino American to serve in the Legislature.Meyer, a lawyer and five-term incumbent from University Park, faces Elizabeth Ginsberg, an attorney and small business owner who lost to Meyer in 2022.
The last two sessions she has chaired the House Committee on International Relations and Economic Development. A former substitute teacher who has taught in public schools in Karnes County, a rural county southeast of San Antonio, Bishop said she saw the value of public schooling and the need for proper funding.“I would first fund public schools,” Bishop said. “The only potential for me to ever vote for vouchers is if, one, we’ve already funded public schools, we’ve increased basic allotment and we’ve increased teacher pay.
“You see some people file something just for the sake they can make a grand statement,” Button said. “In order to really pass a major bill, and this is a major bill, you’ve got to work and count your votes.”Meyer, 50, won his 2020 election by 220 votes. Two years later, after redistricting, he won by 11,365 votes for a 56% to 44% victory over Ginsberg.
Ginsberg, 56, criticized Meyer’s support for school choice and said his votes to ban abortion run counter to the majority of district voters who believe women should have reproductive freedom. “It’s OK to have differences of opinion but be able to work together to accomplish a goal for our constituents,” Meyer said. “That should be the normal, that bipartisanship is a good word, not a bad word and, again, I’ve been doing this since 2014, I’m not changing who I am.”Democratic Texas House candidate Elizabeth Ginsberg speaks to supporters gathered for a block-walk that originated in Tietze Park in Dallas, Oct. 12, 2024.
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