Samuel Smith

Brief Biography

• Deployed as an army officer in Liberia, oversaw medical faculty construction during Ebola pandemic

• Worked for a land development engineering firm in DFW before building a small investment research and modeling business

Education

• Would seek to replace the state STAAR test with a “localized solution”

• Wants to cut spending on athletic infrastructure and reinvest in classrooms, special education and teacher retirement programs

• Will vote to “empower teachers to protective themselves” from violence in schools

Women's/ Reproductive rights

• Would fight to defend his pro-life stance on abortions

Other Priorties

• Lowering property taxes

• Enforcing law-and-order response to “violent riots”

• Small business recovery 

• Reducing over-crowded prisons

Victoria Neave

Brief Biography

• Graduated as the first member of her family to earn a college degree before attending law school and graduating magna cum laude

• Began working in a commercial litigation group before running her own civil litigation and employment law firm

Education

• Has passed bills to help increase access to higher education by making it more affordable

• Will work to make sure every child has the opportunity to succeed

• Has a long track record of authoring , co authoring and sponsoring bills that provide financial support and access to opportunities for k-12 students. 

Women's/

Reproductive Rights

• Will fight for women to earn equal pay for equal work

• Introduced legislation to make June 12th Women Veterans Day in Texas

• Filed and passed historic bill to address backlog of untested DNA kits in sexual assault cases

other priorties

• COVID-19 recovery

• Justice for women and sexual and domestic abuse survivors

• Advocating for veterans

• Access to K-12 and higher education