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Political Note #263 Brandy Chambers TX HD 112
2020 General Election
Help Texans change Texas. Help Texans flip the Texas House of Representatives. Pundits have predicted change in Texas for a while. In 2018, Beto O’Rourke came close. He almost flipped a US Senate seat. While he was at it, Texas Democrats flipped a dozen seats in the Texas House of Representatives. Nine more and Texas would have a Democratic House of Representatives. Texas Democrats would have the capacity to exercise the kind of control of legislation that Democrats have in the US House of Representatives.
While Beto O’Rourke was coming close to flipping a US Senate seat, he carried nine seats in the Texas House that still have Republican reps. He has found a challenge for himself in the 2020 election. Flip those nine seats. Maybe a few more. The Texas Democratic Party has identified 17 seats they believe they can win.
Brandy Chambers https://brandykchambers.com/ is trying to flip Texas House District 112, one of the districts that Beto O’Rourke carried. The district is north and west of Dallas, suburban and industrial. In 2018, Chambers received 49% of the vote while being outspent 3-1. With more resources, a presidential campaign, and focus from both Beto O’Rourke and the Texas Democratic Party, she could win the general election.
Texas Democrats are optimistic about state-wide races and about races in Dallas County. The Dallas Morning News reports that the top of the ticket races, Republican margins in Texas have dropped drastically. In 2014, Wendy Davis lost the governor’s race by 20 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton lost Texas by 9 points. In 2018, Beto O’Rourke lost the Senate race by 3 points. O’Rourke carried Dallas County. Brandy Chambers is running for one of the two remaining Republican House Seats in Dallas County. She intends to turn around her 2018 two point loss.
Brandy Chambers is an immigrant. From Oklahoma. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma Law School. After practicing law in Oklahoma, she moved to Richardson, in HD 112, to work as a counsel for St Paul Travellers Insurance. She moved on to work for a year and a half for Huawei, then became Deputy General Counsel for LSG Sky Chefs. She is now an Associate with PerkinsCole, a large, international firm in Dallas.
Top of her list of issues is property tax reform. She is targeting the incumbent, Angie Chen Button, Chair of the Urban Affairs Committee. Button’s Committee and the Texas legislature’s solution to high property taxes was to cap the amount of revenue cities can raise. Brandy Chambers calls that a characteristic band-aid approach when genuine problem solving is needed.
Button is an immigrant from much farther away – Taiwan. In her first election, in a rarity, she defeated Democrat Sandra Phuong Vule – a contest between two Asian women. Her voting record is Texas conservative – reduce funding for state agencies, require photo ID from voters, establish student centers that emphasize family and traditional values at public colleges.
Brandy Chambers has something to work with in her campaign against the incumbent. She is running in a community that has changed. Part of Garland is in her district. In 1950, Garland was a town of 10,000 people. Now it is a city of almost 250,000 people. Nearly 40% of the population is Hispanic. Nearly 15% is African American. Richardson, part of which is in the district, is smaller and whiter. Total population is slightly more than 120,000. Two-thirds of the population is white. The district is not coterminous with the two cities, but these figures provide a clue to the nature of the district. The demographics suggest a Democrat could win.
Help Brandy Chambers https://brandykchambers.com/ get elected. Even a small donations is a big deal in a year when, important as the state legislative elections may be, the US Senate race and the Presidential race will be soaking up money. Help Texans turn the Texas House of Representatives blue.
The Nine Beto O’Rourke Districts
Houston Area
HD 26 Four Democrats running to oppose an incumbent Republican
HD 134 Three Democrats running to oppose an incumbent Republican
HD 38 Three Democrats running for an Open Republican seat
San Antonio Area
HD 121 Three Democrats running to oppose an incumbent Republican
Dallas – Fort Worth Area
HD 64 Lynn Stuckey running against an incumbent Republican
HD 66 Two Democrats running to oppose an incumbent Republican
HD 67 Five Democrats running to oppose an incumbent Republican
HD 108 Three Democrats running to oppose an incumbent Republican
HD 112 Brandy Chambers running to oppose an incumbent Republican
