TSEU COPE committees around the State met with 36 candidates across the state running in 12 races. Please review the AFL-CIO Cope Endorsements and the highlighted focus races that TSEU COPE members endorsed in. These candidates have proven their support of State Employees and now is the time for us to do the work to get them elected!
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SPOTLIGHT TSEU/COPE Endorsed Candidates –
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AUSTIN:
- HD50: James Talarico
DALLAS:
- HD100: Daniel Clayton
- HD70: Mihaela Plesa
VALLEY:
- HD37: Ruben Cortez
- HD38: Erin Gamez
- SD27: Alex Dominguez
HOUSTON:
- HD147: Aurelia Wagner
- HD76: Sarah Demerchant
SAN ANTONIO:
- HD124: Steven Gilmore
Statewide TSEU Endorsed Candidates :
- Governor – Beto O’Rourke
- Lieutenant Governor – Mike Collier
- Attorney General- Joe Jaworski
United States House of Representatives
- U.S. House, District 1 – Jrmar (JJ) Jefferson
- U.S. House, District 7 – U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher
- U.S. House, District 9 – U.S. Rep. Al Green
- U.S. House, District 10 – Linda Nuno
- U.S. House, District 12 – Trey J. Hunt
- U.S. House, District 13 – Kathleen Brown
- U.S. House, District 16 – U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar
- U.S. House, District 17 – Mary Jo Woods
- U.S. House, District 18 – U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
- U.S. House, District 20 – U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro
- U.S. House, District 21 – Claudia Zapata
- U.S. House, District 24 – Derrick T. Gay
- U.S. House, District 28 – Jessica Cisneros
- U.S. House, District 29 – U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia
- U.S. House, District 32 – U.S. Rep. Colin Allred
- U.S. House, District 33 – U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey
- U.S. House, District 34 – U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez
- U.S. House, District 35 – Greg Casar
- U.S. House, District 37– U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett
State Board of Education
- SBOE, District 1 – Laura Marquez
- SBOE, District 2 – Thomas Garcia
- SBOE, District 4 – Coretta Mallet-Fontenot
- SBOE, District 5 – Rebecca Bell-Metereau
- SBOE, District 13 – Aicha Davis
Texas Senate
- Texas Senate, District 6 – Sen. Carol Alvarado
- Texas Senate, District 9 – Gwenn Burud
- Texas Senate, District 10 – Sen. Beverly Powell
- Texas Senate, District 13 – Sen. Borris Miles
- Texas Senate, District 14 – Sen. Sarah Eckhardt
- Texas Senate, District 15 – Sen. John Whitmire
- Texas Senate, District 16 – Sen. Nathan Johnson
- Texas Senate, District 19 – Sen. Roland Gutierrez
- Texas Senate, District 20 – Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa
- Texas Senate, District 21 – Sen. Judith Zaffirini
- Texas Senate, District 23 – Sen. Royce West
- Texas Senate, District 25 – Robert Walsh
- Texas Senate, District 26 – Sen. José Menéndez
- Texas Senate, District 27 – Rep. Alex Dominguez
(TSEU COPE Endorsed) - Texas Senate, District 29 – Sen. César Blanco
Texas House of Representatives
- Texas House, District 17 – Madeline Eden
- Texas House, District 19 – Pam Baggett
- Texas House, District 20 – Raul Camacho
- Texas House, District 21 – Rep. Dade Phelan
- Texas House, District 22 – Christian “Manuel” Hayes
- Texas House, District 23 – Keith G. Henry
- Texas House, District 27 – Rep. Ron Reynolds
- Texas House, District 32 – Rep. Todd Hunter
- Texas House, District 34 – Rep. Abel Herrero
- Texas House, District 35 – Rep. Oscar Longoria
- Texas House, District 36 – Rep. Sergio Muñoz, Jr
- Texas House, District 37 – Ruben Cortez
(TSEU COPE Endorsed) - Texas House, District 38 – Erin Elizabeth Gamez
(TSEU COPE Endorsed) - Texas House, District 39 – Rep. Armando “Mando” Martinez
- Texas House, District 40 – Rep. Terry Canales
- Texas House, District 41 – Rep. Bobby Guerra
- Texas House, District 45 – Rep. Erin Zwiener
- Texas House, District 46 – Rep. Sheryl Cole
- Texas House, District 47 – Rep. Vikki Goodwin
- Texas House, District 48 – Rep. Donna Howard
- Texas House, District 49 – Rep. Gina Hinojosa
- Texas House, District 50- Rep. James Talarico
(TSEU COPE Endorsed) - Texas House, District 52 – Luis Echegaray
- Texas House, District 61 – Sheena King
- Texas House, District 65 – Brittney Verdell
- Texas House, District 70 – Mihaela Plesa
(TSEU COPE Endorsed) - Texas House, District 73 – Justin Calhoun
- Texas House, District 74 – Rep. Eddie Morales
- Texas House, District 75 – Rep. Mary González
- Texas House, District 76 – Sarah Demerchant
(TSEU COPE Endorsed) - Texas House, District 77 – Rep. Lina Ortega
- Texas House, District 78 – Rep. Joe Moody
- Texas House, District 79 – Art Fierro & Claudia Ordaz Perez
- Texas House, District 80 – Rep. Tracy O. King
- Texas House, District 90 – Rep. Ramon Romero Jr.
- Texas House, District 92 – Salman Bhojani
- Texas House, District 94 – Dennis Sherrard
- Texas House, District 95 – Rep. Nicole Collier
- Texas House, District 98 – Shannon Elkins
- Texas House, District 100 – Daniel Clayton
(TSEU COPE Endorsed) - Texas House, District 101 – Rep. Chris Turner
- Texas House, District 102 – Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos
- Texas House, District 103 – Rep. Rafael Anchia
- Texas House, District 104 – Rep. Jessica González
- Texas House, District 105 – Rep. Terry Meza
- Texas House, District 107 – Rep. Victoria Neave Criado
- Texas House, District 109 – Rep. Carl Sherman Sr.
- Texas House, District 110 – Rep. Toni Rose
- Texas House, District 111 – Rep. Yvonne Davis
- Texas House, District 113 – Rep. Rhetta Andrews Bowers
- Texas House, District 115 – Rep. Julie Johnson
- Texas House, District 116 – Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer
- Texas House, District 117 – Rep. Philip Cortez
- Texas House, District 118 – Frank Ramirez
- Texas House, District 121 – Rebecca Moyer DeFelice
- Texas House, District 122 – Angi Aramburu
- Texas House, District 123 – Rep. Diego Bernal
- Texas House, District 124 – Gerald Brian Lopez &
Steven Gilmore (TSEU COPE Endorsed) - Texas House, District 125 – Rep. Ray Lopez
- Texas House, District 128 – Charles “Chuck” Crews
- Texas House, District 131 – Rep. Alma Allen
- Texas House, District 133 – Bert Keller
- Texas House, District 134 – Rep. Ann Johnson
- Texas House, District 135 – Rep. Jon Rosenthal
- Texas House, District 136 – Rep. John Bucy
- Texas House, District 137 – Rep. Gene Wu
- Texas House, District 139 – Rep. Jarvis Johnson
- Texas House, District 140 – Rep. Armando Walle
- Texas House, District 141 – Rep. Senfronia Thompson
- Texas House, District 142 – Candis Houston
- Texas House, District 143 – Rep. Ana Hernandez
- Texas House, District 144 – Rep. Mary Ann Perez
- Texas House, District 145 – Rep. Christina Morales
- Texas House, District 146 – Rep. Shawn Nicole Thierry
- Texas House, District 147 – Rep. Aurelia Wagner
(TSEU COPE Endorsed) - Texas House, District 148 – Rep. Penny Morales Shaw
- Texas House, District 149 – Rep. Hubert Vo