Konstantinos Vogiatzis earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Houston, and attended the London School of Economics. He lives in Brazoria County.

Konstantinos is a certified public accountant. He previously audited and advised major Gulf Coast energy companies and Fortune 500 corporations.

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Konstantinos is a certified public accountant, tax professional, and small business owner. He previously worked as an audit and accounting advisor at KPMG US. 

Konstantinos's campaign for U.S. Representative, Texas District 14, is his first run for public office.

Supports eliminating sales taxes on basic groceries and essential medicines to provide immediate financial relief to working families.

Supports eliminating sales taxes on basic groceries and essential medicines.

Supports strengthening antitrust enforcement to lower costs and break up monopolies.

Supports automatic tax relief after federally declared disasters to help families rebuild without added financial stress.

Supports automatic tax relief after federally declared disasters to help families rebuild.

Supports lowering property and flood-insurance costs by incentivizing prevention measures such as storm-proofing and flood mitigation.

Supports lowering property and flood-insurance costs by incentivizing prevention measures such as storm-proofing, flood mitigation, and home hardening. 

Opposes Wall Street and private equity from purchasing single-family homes to prevent corporate speculation that prices families out of neighborhoods.

Opposes investment companies from purchasing single-family homes.

Supports expanding targeted tax relief for families, including permanently increasing the Child Tax Credit to reduce child poverty and monthly expenses.

Supports expanding targeted tax relief for families, including permanently increasing the Child Tax Credit. 

Supports expanding and simplifying Small Business Administration loan programs to reduce paperwork and speed up approvals for small businesses to access affordable capital.

Supports expanding and simplifying Small Business Administration loan programs to reduce paperwork and speed up approvals. 

Plans to invest in entrepreneur mentorship and technical-assistance programs by partnering with chambers of commerce, community colleges, and local nonprofits to support sustainable growth for business owners.

Plans to invest in mentorship and assistance programs by partnering with colleges and community groups to support business owners.

Supports cutting unnecessary red tape by streamlining federal reporting and compliance requirements that burden small businesses.

Supports streamlining federal reporting and compliance requirements.

Supports improving access to affordable commercial insurance for Gulf Coast businesses facing rising property and liability costs.

Supports improving access to affordable commercial insurance for Gulf Coast businesses facing rising costs.

Supports enforcing trade, transparency, and financial disclosure rules to protect American workers and businesses from foreign corruption.

Supports enforcing trade, transparency, and financial disclosure rules to protect workers and businesses from "foreign corruption."

Believes in ending deficit-financed tax cuts for the wealthy and requiring that any tax cut be paid for or justified by broad public benefit.

Supports reinstating and enforcing budget discipline rules to prevent deficit-increasing legislation without a clear plan to pay for it.

Supports reviewing and eliminating wasteful corporate subsidies and no-bid procurement practices that inflate costs and distort markets.

Supports eliminating corporate subsidies and no-bid procurement practices that distort markets.

Supports stopping corporations from exploiting trade rules to offshore jobs and evade taxes, aiming to protect American workers from unfair competition.

Supports stopping corporations from exploiting trade rules to offshore jobs and evade taxes.

Supports using trade policy to combat global corruption and restrict access to the U.S.

Supports expanding employment opportunities at fair, livable wages by enforcing workplace accommodation laws, supporting employer incentive programs, and partnering with employers to create accessible job pathways.

Supports expanding employment opportunities at livable wages.

Supports ending subminimum wage loopholes and strengthening labor protections to ensure fair wages and job security, particularly for individuals with disabilities.

Advocates for tying federal industrial investments to workforce development, including expanding apprenticeships and training partnerships with unions and community colleges.

- Supports eliminating sales taxes on basic groceries and essential medicines.
- Supports strengthening antitrust enforcement to lower costs and break up monopolies.
- Supports automatic tax relief after federally declared disasters to help families rebuild.
- Supports lowering property and flood-insurance costs by incentivizing prevention measures such as storm-proofing, flood mitigation, and home hardening. 
- Opposes investment companies from purchasing single-family homes.
- Supports expanding targeted tax relief for families, including permanently increasing the Child Tax Credit. 
- Supports expanding and simplifying Small Business Administration loan programs to reduce paperwork and speed up approvals. 
- Plans to invest in mentorship and assistance programs by partnering with colleges and community groups to support business owners.
- Supports streamlining federal reporting and compliance requirements.
- Supports improving access to affordable commercial insurance for Gulf Coast businesses facing rising costs.
- Supports enforcing trade, transparency, and financial disclosure rules to protect workers and businesses from "foreign corruption."
- Believes in ending deficit-financed tax cuts for the wealthy and requiring that any tax cut be paid for or justified by broad public benefit.
- Supports reinstating and enforcing budget discipline rules to prevent deficit-increasing legislation without a clear plan to pay for it. 
- Supports eliminating corporate subsidies and no-bid procurement practices that distort markets.
- Supports stopping corporations from exploiting trade rules to offshore jobs and evade taxes.
- Supports using trade policy to combat global corruption and restrict access to the U.S.
- Supports expanding employment opportunities at livable wages.
- Supports ending subminimum wage loopholes and strengthening labor protections to ensure fair wages and job security, particularly for individuals with disabilities.
- Advocates for tying federal industrial investments to workforce development, including expanding apprenticeships and training partnerships with unions and community colleges.

Economy

Supports expanding mental health and crisis response programs to allow trained professionals to respond alongside or instead of police when appropriate.

Supports expanding mental health and crisis response programs to respond alongside police.

For Candidate Konstantinos Vogiatzis on Issue public-safety: Supports investing in prevention and violence-reduction strategies, including youth programs, re-entry support, and targeted interventions to reduce crime before it happens.

Supports investing in prevention and violence-reduction strategies, including youth programs, re-entry support, and targeted interventions to reduce crime.

Supports requiring body cameras and clear use-of-force standards for police departments, tied to federal funding for consistent policies and protections for officers and the public.

Supports requiring body cameras and clear use-of-force standards for police departments.

Supports creating and maintaining national misconduct tracking systems to prevent officers with serious violations from moving between departments without accountability.

Supports creating national police misconduct tracking systems to prevent officers with serious violations from moving between departments without accountability.

For Candidate Konstantinos Vogiatzis on Issue public-safety: Plans to focus enforcement on violent offenders and support smart sentencing and prosecution tools to prevent repeat violent criminals from returning to the streets with illegal weapons.

Plans to focus law enforcement on violent offenders and support sentencing and prosecution tools to prevent repeat violent criminals from returning to the streets.

Supports modernizing and fully funding the national background check system, requiring timely reporting of felony convictions and domestic violence orders to flag prohibited buyers immediately.

Supports modernizing and fully funding the national background check system, requiring timely reporting of felony convictions.

Supports cracking down on gun trafficking and straw purchasing by fully funding federal and joint task forces to disrupt illegal supply chains before weapons reach gangs and violent offenders.

Supports cracking down on gun trafficking by fully funding federal and joint task forces to disrupt illegal supply chains.

- Supports expanding mental health and crisis response programs to respond alongside police.
- Supports investing in prevention and violence-reduction strategies, including youth programs, re-entry support, and targeted interventions to reduce crime.
- Supports requiring body cameras and clear use-of-force standards for police departments.
- Supports creating national police misconduct tracking systems to prevent officers with serious violations from moving between departments without accountability.
- Plans to focus law enforcement on violent offenders and support sentencing and prosecution tools to prevent repeat violent criminals from returning to the streets.
- Supports modernizing and fully funding the national background check system, requiring timely reporting of felony convictions.
- Supports cracking down on gun trafficking by fully funding federal and joint task forces to disrupt illegal supply chains.

Public Safety

Supports codifying reproductive freedom and personal privacy into federal law to protect against political interference and court reversals.

Supports access to abortion and adding personal privacy protections into federal law.

Supports guaranteeing access to affordable, continuous healthcare and long-term services by strengthening coverage protections and ensuring continuity of care during job or income changes.

Supports guaranteeing access to affordable, continuous healthcare and long-term services by strengthening coverage protections and ensuring continuity of care.

Supports reforming benefit rules to prevent individuals from losing healthcare and essential supports when increasing work hours or earnings.

Supports reducing bureaucratic barriers, delays, and waiting lists in healthcare by streamlining eligibility determinations and reducing duplicative paperwork across agencies.

Supports reducing bureaucratic barriers, delays, and waiting lists in healthcare.

Supports capping insulin and essential medication costs to prevent individuals from rationing lifesaving treatment.

Supports capping insulin and essential medication costs.

Supports protecting and strengthening Medicare and Medicaid, rejecting cuts that shift costs onto seniors, families, and people with disabilities.

Supports creating a public health insurance option that offers high-quality coverage and promotes competition among private insurers on price, service, and transparency.

- Supports access to abortion and adding personal privacy protections into federal law.
- Supports guaranteeing access to affordable, continuous healthcare and long-term services by strengthening coverage protections and ensuring continuity of care.
- Supports reforming benefit rules to prevent individuals from losing healthcare and essential supports when increasing work hours or earnings.
- Supports reducing bureaucratic barriers, delays, and waiting lists in healthcare.
- Supports capping insulin and essential medication costs.
- Supports protecting and strengthening Medicare and Medicaid, rejecting cuts that shift costs onto seniors, families, and people with disabilities.
- Supports creating a public health insurance option that offers high-quality coverage and promotes competition among private insurers on price, service, and transparency.

Healthcare

Supports raising and stabilizing teacher pay through competitive salaries, expanding student loan forgiveness for educators, and providing incentives for teaching in high-need and rural districts.

Supports raising and stabilizing teacher pay through competitive salaries.

Supports tackling teacher shortages by expanding federal scholarships and paid teaching residency programs, particularly in rural districts and hard-to-staff subjects.

Supports tackling teacher shortages by expanding federal scholarships and paid teaching residency programs.

Opposes privatization of public education by rejecting voucher and subsidy programs, ensuring taxpayer dollars remain in public schools with accountability.

Opposes programs that allow qualifying families to use public money for alternative schooling options, including private schools.

Supports targeted federal funding for smaller class sizes, tutoring, and extended learning time to reduce classroom overcrowding and learning loss.

Supports strengthening special education services by ensuring schools have adequate funding, staffing, and training to meet the needs of students with disabilities and support their families.

Supports strengthening special education services by funding, staffing, and training schools to meet the needs of students with disabilities.

Supports protecting local control in education while enhancing transparency and parental engagement, ensuring parents have access to curriculum information and school performance data.

Supports protecting local control in education while enhancing transparency and parental engagement.

- Supports raising and stabilizing teacher pay through competitive salaries.
- Supports tackling teacher shortages by expanding federal scholarships and paid teaching residency programs.
- Opposes programs that allow qualifying families to use public money for alternative schooling options, including private schools.
- Supports targeted federal funding for smaller class sizes, tutoring, and extended learning time to reduce classroom overcrowding and learning loss.
- Supports strengthening special education services by funding, staffing, and training schools to meet the needs of students with disabilities.
- Supports protecting local control in education while enhancing transparency and parental engagement.

Education

Supports holding repeat polluters accountable through targeted enforcement, meaningful penalties, and transparency.

Supports upgrading Gulf Coast ports and prioritizing federal infrastructure funding for port modernization and connections that enhance energy exports and global trade.

Supports ensuring energy policy reflects regional realities by involving Gulf Coast workers and operators in the development of federal rules.

Supports shaping energy policy by involving Gulf Coast workers and operators in the development of rules.

- Supports holding repeat polluters accountable through targeted enforcement, meaningful penalties, and transparency.
- Supports upgrading Gulf Coast ports and prioritizing federal infrastructure funding for port modernization and connections that enhance energy exports and global trade.
- Supports shaping energy policy by involving Gulf Coast workers and operators in the development of rules.

Energy & the Environment

Supports prohibiting former Members of Congress and senior staff from becoming lobbyists to close the revolving door between public service and private profit.

Supports prohibiting former members of Congress and senior staff from becoming lobbyists.

Supports overturning Citizens United and expanding small-donor public financing to reduce the influence of big money in politics.

Supports overturning the Citizens United decision, which eliminated restrictions on campaign spending by corporations, and expanding small-donor public financing to reduce the influence of big money in politics.

Supports term limits for congressional leadership positions to ensure fresh perspectives and prevent power concentration among career insiders.

Supports term limits for congressional leadership positions.

Supports creating independent redistricting commissions to eliminate gerrymandering, ensuring that voters choose politicians rather than the other way around.

Supports creating independent redistricting commissions to eliminate gerrymandering, the practice of drawing voting districts in a way that gives one political party or candidate an advantage over others.

Supports modernizing and securing elections through the use of paper ballots, post-election audits, clear certification timelines, and protections for election workers.

Supports guaranteeing fair and reasonable access to the ballot by establishing national standards for early voting hours, polling place availability, and wait times to assist working families, seniors, and service members.

Supports guaranteeing fair access to voting by establishing national standards for early voting hours, polling place availability, and wait times.

- Supports prohibiting former members of Congress and senior staff from becoming lobbyists.
- Supports overturning the Citizens United decision, which eliminated restrictions on campaign spending by corporations, and expanding small-donor public financing to reduce the influence of big money in politics.
- Supports term limits for congressional leadership positions.
- Supports creating independent redistricting commissions to eliminate gerrymandering, the practice of drawing voting districts in a way that gives one political party or candidate an advantage over others.
- Supports modernizing and securing elections through the use of paper ballots, post-election audits, clear certification timelines, and protections for election workers.
- Supports guaranteeing fair access to voting by establishing national standards for early voting hours, polling place availability, and wait times.

Voting & Elections

Proposes fixing the asylum backlog by expanding the number of immigration judges, asylum officers, and caseworkers to ensure claims are processed quickly, fairly, and with full due process.

Proposes fixing the asylum backlog by expanding the number of immigration judges, asylum officers, and caseworkers.

Supports guaranteeing due process in immigration proceedings, including timely hearings, clear notice of rights, and access to legal counsel.

Supports strengthening interior enforcement against repeat offenders, focusing resources on serious crimes and trafficking while maintaining community trust.

- Proposes fixing the asylum backlog by expanding the number of immigration judges, asylum officers, and caseworkers.
- Supports guaranteeing due process in immigration proceedings, including timely hearings, clear notice of rights, and access to legal counsel.
- Supports strengthening interior enforcement against repeat offenders, focusing resources on serious crimes and trafficking while maintaining community trust.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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Konstantinos Vogiatzis

Konstantinos Vogiatzis is a lifelong Texan and a first-generation homeowner in Brazoria County. He grew up in a Greek Orthodox family; his mother was a secretary and teacher, and his father is a church cantor. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Houston and also studied at the London School of Economics.

Konstantinos is a certified public accountant. He previously audited and advised major Gulf Coast energy companies and Fortune 500 corporations. He previously worked as a financial planning intern for Air Liquide and served as a volunteer tax preparer through the IRS VITA program.

This is Konstantinos first run for office.

- Supports eliminating sales taxes on basic groceries and essential medicines.
- Supports strengthening antitrust enforcement to lower costs and break up monopolies.
- Supports automatic tax relief after federally declared disasters to help families rebuild.
- Supports lowering property and flood-insurance costs by incentivizing prevention measures such as storm-proofing and flood mitigation.
- Opposes Wall Street and private equity from purchasing single-family homes.
- Supports expanding targeted tax relief for families, including permanently increasing the Child Tax Credit.
- Supports expanding and simplifying Small Business Administration loan programs to reduce paperwork and speed up approvals.
- Plans to invest in entrepreneur mentorship and technical-assistance programs by partnering with chambers of commerce, community colleges, and local nonprofits to support sustainable growth for business owners.
- Supports cutting unnecessary red tape by streamlining federal reporting and compliance requirements that burden small businesses.
- Supports improving access to affordable commercial insurance for Gulf Coast businesses facing rising property and liability costs.
- Supports enforcing trade, transparency, and financial disclosure rules to protect American workers and businesses from foreign corruption.
- Believes in ending deficit-financed tax cuts for the wealthy and requiring that any tax cut be paid for or justified by broad public benefit.
- Supports reinstating and enforcing budget discipline rules to prevent deficit-increasing legislation without a clear plan to pay for it.
- Supports reviewing and eliminating wasteful corporate subsidies and no-bid procurement practices that inflate costs and distort markets.
- Supports stopping corporations from exploiting trade rules to offshore jobs and evade taxes.
- Supports using trade policy to combat global corruption and restrict access to the U.S.

- Supports expanding mental health and crisis response programs to allow trained professionals to respond alongside police when appropriate.
- Supports investing in prevention and violence-reduction strategies, including youth programs, re-entry support, and targeted interventions to reduce crime before it happens.
- Supports requiring body cameras and clear use-of-force standards for police departments, tied to federal funding for consistent policies and protections for officers and the public.
- Supports creating and maintaining national misconduct tracking systems to prevent officers with serious violations from moving between departments without accountability.
- Plans to focus enforcement on violent offenders and support smart sentencing and prosecution tools to prevent repeat violent criminals from returning to the streets.
- Supports expanding mental health and crisis-intervention capacity, including suicide prevention and domestic-violence intervention, to ensure timely help before tragedies occur.
- Supports modernizing and fully funding the national background check system, requiring timely reporting of felony convictions.
- Supports cracking down on gun trafficking by fully funding federal and joint task forces to disrupt illegal supply chains.

- Supports codifying reproductive freedom and personal privacy into federal law to protect against political interference and court reversals.
- Supports guaranteeing access to affordable, continuous healthcare and long-term services by strengthening coverage protections and ensuring continuity of care during job or income changes.
- Supports expanding employment opportunities at fair, livable wages by enforcing workplace accommodation laws.
- Supports ending subminimum wage loopholes and strengthening labor protections to ensure fair wages and job security, particularly for individuals with disabilities.
- Supports reforming benefit rules to prevent individuals from losing healthcare and essential supports when increasing work hours or earnings.
- Supports reducing bureaucratic barriers, delays, and waiting lists in healthcare.
- Supports accessible voting rights by enforcing standards for polling places and voting systems, expanding ballot options, and holding election officials accountable.
- Supports capping insulin and essential medication costs to prevent individuals from rationing lifesaving treatment.
- Supports protecting and strengthening Medicare and Medicaid, rejecting cuts that shift costs onto seniors, families, and people with disabilities.
- Supports creating a public health insurance option that offers high-quality coverage and promotes competition among private insurers on price, service, and transparency.

- Supports raising and stabilizing teacher pay through competitive salaries.
- Supports tackling teacher shortages by expanding federal scholarships and paid teaching residency programs.
- Opposes privatization of public education by rejecting voucher and subsidy programs, ensuring taxpayer dollars remain in public schools with accountability.
- Supports targeted federal funding for smaller class sizes, tutoring, and extended learning time to reduce classroom overcrowding and learning loss.
- Supports strengthening special education services by ensuring schools have adequate funding, staffing, and training to meet the needs of students with disabilities and support their families.
- Supports protecting local control in education while enhancing transparency and parental.

- Supports holding repeat polluters accountable through targeted enforcement, meaningful penalties, and transparency.
- Supports upgrading Gulf Coast ports and prioritizing federal infrastructure funding for port modernization and connections that enhance energy exports and global trade.
- Advocates for tying federal industrial investments to workforce development, including expanding apprenticeships and training partnerships with unions and community colleges.
- Supports ensuring energy policy reflects regional realities by involving Gulf Coast workers and operators in the development of federal rules.

- Supports prohibiting former Members of Congress and senior staff from becoming lobbyists to close the revolving door between public service and private profit.
- Supports overturning Citizens United and expanding small-donor public financing to reduce the influence of big money in politics.
- Supports term limits for congressional leadership positions to ensure fresh perspectives and prevent power concentration among career insiders.
- Supports creating independent redistricting commissions to eliminate gerrymandering, ensuring that voters choose politicians rather than the other way around.
- Supports modernizing and securing elections through the use of paper ballots, post-election audits, clear certification timelines, and protections for election workers.
- Supports guaranteeing fair and reasonable access to the ballot by establishing national standards for early voting hours, polling place availability, and wait times to assist working families, seniors, and service members.

- Proposes fixing the asylum backlog by expanding the number of immigration judges, asylum officers, and caseworkers to ensure claims are processed quickly, fairly, and with full due process.
- Supports guaranteeing due process in immigration proceedings, including timely hearings, clear notice of rights, and access to legal counsel.
- Supports strengthening interior enforcement against repeat offenders, focusing resources on serious crimes and trafficking while maintaining community trust.

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Supports expanding mental health and crisis-intervention capacity, including suicide prevention and domestic-violence intervention, to ensure timely help before tragedies occur.

Supports accessible voting rights by enforcing standards for polling places and voting systems, expanding ballot options, and holding election officials accountable.

Richard H. Davis is originally from College Station. He earned a bachelor's degree in business from Sam Houston State University and a degree in accounting from Cameron University. He lives with his wife, Beth, and has two children and one grandchild.

Richard is currently retired. He previously worked as a controller and tax professional for construction companies, and as the owner of a bookkeeping, tax, and consulting firm.

Richard H Davis previously ran for the Texas House of Representatives in District 113 in 1992, but did not win.

Richard previously ran for the Texas House of Representatives, District 113, in 1992, but did not win.

For Candidate Richard H Davis on Issue economy:  
Prioritizes addressing inflation and the economy.

Prioritizes addressing inflation and the economy.

Supports "a fair tax code that asks corporations and the ultra-wealthy to pay their share" and "eliminating inefficiency, fraud, and giveaways to special interests."

Favors "lowering energy costs, supporting affordable childcare, and ensuring working families can keep more of what they earn."

Said,  "I will defend and strengthen programs like Social Security, Medicare, and food assistance while expanding workforce development so people can move from poverty into stable employment."

Plans to increase affordable housing options, reform zoning policies, and increase support for first-time homebuyers and veterans.

Supports increasing protections for individuals' personal data and strengthening cyber security infrastructure.

Favors "trade policies that strengthen Gulf Coast exports, protect American labor standards, and prevent unfair foreign competition that hurts Texas jobs."

Supports "transparency in pricing, privacy safeguards, and enforcement against deceptive business practices."

- Prioritizes addressing inflation and the economy.
- Supports "a fair tax code that asks corporations and the ultra-wealthy to pay their share" and "eliminating inefficiency, fraud, and giveaways to special interests."
- Favors "lowering energy costs, supporting affordable childcare, and ensuring working families can keep more of what they earn."
- Said,  "I will defend and strengthen programs like Social Security, Medicare, and food assistance while expanding workforce development so people can move from poverty into stable employment."
- Plans to increase affordable housing options, reform zoning policies, and increase support for first-time homebuyers and veterans.
- Supports increasing protections for individuals' personal data and strengthening cyber security infrastructure.
- Favors "trade policies that strengthen Gulf Coast exports, protect American labor standards, and prevent unfair foreign competition that hurts Texas jobs."
- Supports "transparency in pricing, privacy safeguards, and enforcement against deceptive business practices."

Said, "I’ll support fair housing, equitable education funding, and reforms that eliminate racial bias in criminal justice."

Said, "I’ll support reforms that improve policing standards, emphasize de-escalation training, and ensure accountability when misconduct occurs. We can respect law enforcement while ensuring that everyone they serve is treated with dignity and fairness."

Supports creating rehabilitation and re-entry programs for non-violent offenders.

Supports measures such as universal background checks, red flag laws, and secure storage for firearms.

- Said, "I’ll support fair housing, equitable education funding, and reforms that eliminate racial bias in criminal justice."
- Said, "I’ll support reforms that improve policing standards, emphasize de-escalation training, and ensure accountability when misconduct occurs. We can respect law enforcement while ensuring that everyone they serve is treated with dignity and fairness."
- Supports creating rehabilitation and re-entry programs for non-violent offenders.
- Supports measures such as universal background checks, red flag laws, and secure storage for firearms.

Plans to "strengthen the Affordable Care Act" to lower expenses, and to support clinics, telehealth, and mobile health units for rural areas.

Plans to "rebuild public health infrastructure to respond faster to future health threats while strengthening local hospitals and clinics in underserved areas."

Supports access to abortion and initiatives to reduce maternal mortality rates, expand care, and support families after childbirth.

- Plans to "strengthen the Affordable Care Act" to lower expenses, and to support clinics, telehealth, and mobile health units for rural areas.
- Plans to "rebuild public health infrastructure to respond faster to future health threats while strengthening local hospitals and clinics in underserved areas."
- Supports access to abortion and initiatives to reduce maternal mortality rates, expand care, and support families after childbirth.

Supports restoring funding for educational programs.

Plans to expand opportunities for job training and apprenticeships.

Supports increasing teachers' salaries, modernizing schools, expanding support services, and increasing technical and workforce programs.

- Supports restoring funding for educational programs.
- Plans to expand opportunities for job training and apprenticeships.
- Supports increasing teachers' salaries, modernizing schools, expanding support services, and increasing technical and workforce programs.

Supports restoring full funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for timely warnings.

Supports "responsible production" of oil, gas, hydrogen, and renewable energy while preparing for climate resilience.

- Supports restoring full funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for timely warnings.
- Supports "responsible production" of oil, gas, hydrogen, and renewable energy while preparing for climate resilience.

Plans to "restor[e] the Voting Rights Act, mak[e] Election Day more accessible, and ensur[e] secure, transparent ballot systems," and to reduce the influence of money in politics.

Opposes gerrymandering, the practice of drawing voting districts in a way that gives one political party or candidate an advantage over others.

- Plans to "restor[e] the Voting Rights Act, mak[e] Election Day more accessible, and ensur[e] secure, transparent ballot systems," and to reduce the influence of money in politics.
- Opposes gerrymandering, the practice of drawing voting districts in a way that gives one political party or candidate an advantage over others.

Plans to support the military with strategic and accountable spending that provides service members with training, equipment, and pay.

Supports reforms to immigration "that secures our borders, respects human dignity, and supports" local businesses.

- Plans to support the military with strategic and accountable spending that provides service members with training, equipment, and pay.
- Supports reforms to immigration "that secures our borders, respects human dignity, and supports" local businesses.

Richard H Davis

As of January 22, 2026, Richard H Davis’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Thurman Bill Bartie is from Port Arthur, Texas. He has a bachelor 27s degree in political science from Lamar University and a master 27s degree in ministry from Tennessee Temple University Baptist Seminary. He is a parent and grandparent.

Thurman Bill Bartie has a bachelor 's degree in political science from Lamar University and a master 's degree in ministry from Tennessee Temple University Baptist Seminary. He is a father.

Thurman is a former mayor of Port Arthur, Texas. He previously served as a justice of the peace for Jefferson County, Texas. He has also worked as a funeral director and embalmer, an educator, and a pastor. 

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Thurman previously served as the mayor of Port Arthur and as a Jefferson County justice of the peace. He was first elected as a justice of the peace in 1994 and served two terms as mayor from 2019 to 2023.

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Supports access to good jobs and fair wages, emphasizing the importance of strong local economies for community strength.

Believes every person deserves "access to good jobs and fair wages."

Supports job training, small business growth, safe working conditions, and strong local economic development.

Supports "job training, small business growth, safe working conditions, and strong local economic development."

- Believes every person deserves "access to good jobs and fair wages."
- Supports "job training, small business growth, safe working conditions, and strong local economic development."

Supports law enforcement and believes true safety requires stability, mental health support, and addressing the challenges people face.

Supports law enforcement and believes "true safety requires stability, mental health support, and opportunity."

- Supports law enforcement and believes "true safety requires stability, mental health support, and opportunity."

Supports access to affordable and reliable healthcare for all citizens, advocating for the strengthening and restoration of the Affordable Care Act.

Advocates for the "strengthening and restoration of the Affordable Care Act."

- Advocates for the "strengthening and restoration of the Affordable Care Act."

Supports investment in teachers, modernized classrooms, and pathways to success for every child, emphasizing the importance of a strong public education system.

Wants "investment in teachers, modernized classrooms, and pathways to success for every child."

- Wants "investment in teachers, modernized classrooms, and pathways to success for every child."

Supports smart infrastructure, energy reliability, and resilient systems to protect families and businesses from hurricanes, floods, and power outages.

Seeks "smart infrastructure, energy reliability, and resilient systems that protect our families and our businesses."

- Seeks "smart infrastructure, energy reliability, and resilient systems that protect our families and our businesses."

As of January 22, 2026, Thurman Bill Bartie’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Thurman Bill Bartie

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