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.
Lupe Valdez
"After Texas cut" its "two-year family planning budget by $73 million, one in four clinics closed their doors."
"One in six Texans don’t have health care. We’re the most uninsured state in the U.S."
"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…
"I come from the poorest ZIP code in San Antonio."
Says Texas Department of Public Safety numbers show that 1.6 percent of crime is committed by unauthorized immigrants.