Carmen Maria Montiel is from Venezuela. She has a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from East Tennessee State University. She lives in Houston, Texas. She is a mother of three.

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Carmen Maria Montiel is from Maracaibo, Venezuela. She has degrees in broadcast journalism and art studies from the Central University of Venezuela, and a bachelor's degree in broadcasting and Spanish from East Tennessee State University. Carmen lives in Houston and has three children.

Carmen is a real estate broker. She previously worked as a television journalist and news anchorwoman.

Carmen currently works as a real estate broker at Nan and Company Properties. She previously worked as a real estate agent at Keller Williams Realty, Nino Properties, and Carnan Properties Houston International, as president of Camia Properties, as an event planner for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and as a television journalist for Telemundo and Venevision.

Carmen previously ran for U.S. House representative in 2022 but did not win. 

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Carmen previously ran for U.S. representative for Texas' 18th District in 2025 and 2022, and Texas' 29th District in 2018 but did not win.

Supports reducing tax rates and regulations.

- Supports reducing tax rates and regulations.
- Supports balanced budgets.

Economy

Supports providing law enforcement and first responders with necessary resources.

Supports community-based policing solutions that build trust and accountability.

- Supports providing law enforcement and first responders with necessary resources.
- Supports community-based policing solutions that build trust and accountability.
- Opposes gun control.

Public Safety

Healthcare

Opposes policies that limit parental rights in education.

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

- Opposes policies that limit parental rights in education.
- Supports school choice, programs that allow qualifying families to use public money for alternative schooling options, including private schools.

Education

Wants to expand domestic energy production, including natural gas, oil, and advanced technologies to power our economy.

Wants to reduce dependence on foreign energy.

- Wants to expand domestic energy production, including natural gas, oil, and advanced technologies to power our economy.
- Wants to reduce dependence on foreign energy.

Energy & the Environment

Supports term limits for Congress members.

- Supports term limits for Congress members.

Voting & Elections

Supports reducing and strengthening immigration security measures.

- Supports reducing and strengthening immigration security measures.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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