Issue Position: Jobs

Issue Position

As a staffer for Congressman Martin Frost, I played a key role in winning federal support needed to build the freeway exchange and road extensions at Cockrell Hill Road on I-30. Not only did that project create jobs, but the economic growth and development it produced served to create and retain even more jobs. In Fort Worth, I took the lead in bringing the only full service Super Market to southeast Fort Worth and played a key role in helping to make sure that what is now La Gran Plaza was not closed down. As a legislator, I fought to keep Republicans from decimating the Texas job economy by passing a foolish $164 billion budget proposal that would have cost our state hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next two years according to nonpartisan experts. Though I was successful in preventing those budget cuts from being as deep as Republicans tried to make them, Rick Perry and his Party were still able to force through $5.4 billion in cuts to public education. Make no mistake about it, the fight for jobs begins with education. We have to make sure the next generation is prepared. The key to a better economy and job creation lies with our children. I will work hand in hand with President Obama to help pass legislation that increases affordability of secondary education and primes students for entry into the workforce. If elected, I will also work with the President to pass legislation such as the JOBS Act in order to create an environment conducive to extending the twenty-seven straight months of job creation we've seen into the foreseeable future.

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