Taylor is from Garland, Texas. He is a union president.

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Taylor currently works as an aircraft mechanic. He previously served in the U.S. Air Force.

Texas State Senate District 9 - Ballotpedia

Taylor's campaign for Texas State Senator, District 9 is his first entry into politics.

Supports repealing anti-union laws, reclassifying gig workers to guarantee benefits, and establishing apprenticeship pipelines.

Supports statewide rent stabilization, tenant protections, and investing in nonprofit and public housing.

Supports raising the minimum wage to $20 an hour.

Supports a universal, single-payer healthcare system, saying it would be "the biggest economic boost for small businesses in a generation."

Believes a universal, single-payer healthcare system would be "the biggest economic boost for small businesses in a generation."

Believes property taxes are "crushing working families" and plans to advocate for a tax system that reduces the burden on homeowners and renters while ensuring "big business pay its fair share."

Believes Texas should revise its "broken toll road pricing model," saying "families in SD9 and across the state are paying outrageous fees just to get to school, work, or the grocery store."

- Supports repealing anti-union laws, reclassifying gig workers to guarantee benefits, and establishing apprenticeship pipelines.
- Supports statewide rent stabilization, tenant protections, and investing in nonprofit and public housing.
- Supports raising the minimum wage to $20 an hour.
- Believes a universal, single-payer healthcare system would be "the biggest economic boost for small businesses in a generation."
- Believes property taxes are "crushing working families" and plans to advocate for a tax system that reduces the burden on homeowners and renters while ensuring "big business pay its fair share."
- Believes Texas should revise its "broken toll road pricing model," saying "families in SD9 and across the state are paying outrageous fees just to get to school, work, or the grocery store."

Economy

Supports fully funding veteran mental health care, job training, and housing programs.

Believes in strict legal consequences for traffickers and dealers to address the fentanyl crisis.

Supports expanding access to mental health care, fully funding recovery programs, and making Narcan widely available.

Supports fully funding recovery programs, expanding access mental health services, and making Narcan widely available to combat the fentanyl crisis.

Supports jail reform, advocating for independent oversight and adequate staffing, medical care, and mental health resources.

- Supports fully funding veteran mental health care, job training, and housing programs.
- Believes in strict legal consequences for traffickers and dealers to address the fentanyl crisis.
- Supports fully funding recovery programs, expanding access mental health services, and making Narcan widely available to combat the fentanyl crisis.
- Opposes the death penalty.
- Supports jail reform, advocating for independent oversight and adequate staffing, medical care, and mental health resources.

Public Safety

Supports universal, single-payer healthcare, saying it would "boost small businesses" and reduce "outrageous" insurance costs.

Supports universal, single-payer healthcare, saying it would reduce "outrageous" insurance costs.

Supports the use of THC products for veterans.

- Supports universal, single-payer healthcare, saying it would reduce "outrageous" insurance costs.
- Opposes a THC ban.

Healthcare

Supports investing in neighborhood schools and opposes the privatization of public education.

Opposes school vouchers, saying they "drain public money into private hands with no accountability."

Supports teacher raises, having mental health staff in every school, and preventing school boards from banning books or invading student privacy.

Supports fully funding public schools, expanding vocational programs, and ending "voucher schemes" that divert funds from public education.

Wants to expand vocational programs in public schools.

- Supports investing in neighborhood schools and opposes the privatization of public education.
- Opposes school vouchers, saying they "drain public money into private hands with no accountability."
- Supports teacher raises, having mental health staff in every school, and preventing school boards from banning books or invading student privacy.
- Wants to expand vocational programs in public schools.

Education

Supports investing in community-owned solar, wind, and battery projects to create local jobs, reduce energy bills, and promote generational wealth.

Believes in protecting Texas's natural resources and public lands, ensuring environmental justice for farmers, ranchers, rural communities, and Native American tribes, and plans to prioritize clean air and water for all.

Believes in protecting Texas's natural resources and public lands, ensuring environmental justice for farmers, ranchers, rural communities, and Native American tribes.

Supports prioritizing clean air and water for all, regardless of zip code.

Supports investing in infrastructure, modernizing public transit, and creating walkable neighborhoods.

Supports improving natural disaster warning systems.

Wants to improve natural disaster warning systems.

- Supports investing in community-owned solar, wind, and battery projects to create local jobs, reduce energy bills, and promote generational wealth.
- Believes in protecting Texas's natural resources and public lands, ensuring environmental justice for farmers, ranchers, rural communities, and Native American tribes.
- Prioritizes clean air and water for all.
- Supports investing in infrastructure, modernizing public transit, and creating walkable neighborhoods.
- Wants to improve natural disaster warning systems.

Energy & the Environment

Supports ending racial and partisan gerrymandering by establishing an independent redistricting commission, increasing transparency, and protecting minority voting rights.

Opposes cutting polling locations in working-class neighborhoods and on campuses.

- Supports ending racial and partisan gerrymandering by establishing an independent redistricting commission, increasing transparency, and protecting minority voting rights.
- Opposes cutting polling locations in working-class neighborhoods and on campuses.

Voting & Elections

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- Your state senator represents the interests of your district in the Texas State Senate. The State Senate, along with the State House of Representatives, makes up your state lawmaking body: the Texas Legislature.
- Your state senator can author, sponsor, and vote on bills that may become state laws after going through the legislative process.
- There are 31 Texas state senators, each representing a single district with a constituency of around 1 million.
- State senators are elected to 4-year terms and one 2-year term per decade, and there are no term limits.
- They are paid a salary of $7,200/year and a per diem of $221/day.