Garnet Coleman
Coleman, initially elected to the Texas House in 1991, formerly chairs the Texas House Committee on County Affairs. Coleman says in his online biography that he's one of the authors of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in Texas, a program that makes health insurance available to more than 500,000 children from working families. He said he also helped simplify access to Medicaid for more than 600,000 Texas children, and worked to secure an increase of $161.5 million for at-risk child care services.
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"Transgender individuals in the U.S. have a 1-in-12 chance of being murdered."
Says Texas has the most uninsured people of any state -- 6 million.
Says close to 90 percent of the population growth in Texas over the last decade was non-Anglo.
Says that in some Texas communities, "our unemployment rate is still at 10 and 20 percent."