Lupe Valdez, a Democrat elected four times as Dallas County sheriff, declared her candidacy for governor in December 2017. She won the party’s nomination in May 2018.
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"After Texas cut" its "two-year family planning budget by $73 million, one in four clinics closed their doors."
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"One in six Texans don’t have health care. We’re the most uninsured state in the U.S."
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"There are some counties in Texas where the first day of hunting, you have to shut down the schools because people are going to go…
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"I come from the poorest ZIP code in San Antonio."
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Says Texas Department of Public Safety numbers show that 1.6 percent of crime is committed by unauthorized immigrants.