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Gina Hinojosa on Running for Texas Governor
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Jon Favreau welcomes Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Texas, for a wide-ranging conversation about her campaign. Hinojosa opens by invoking her upbringing in Brownsville on the Rio Grande border, where as a child she asked her father why there were beggars in Mexico but none when they crossed back into Texas — and his answer was the American dream, built on a strong middle class. She never planned to run for office; she made her husband promise they never would. But when Abbott's policies threatened to shut down her son's school, she ran for the school board and won. The Texas House came next. Now, she frames the entire governor's race as a fight against 'the Greg Abbott corruption tax' — a system in which donor money drives policy, Texans pay 75% more in property taxes, 100+ schools are closing, 150+ districts have gone to 4-day weeks, and Corpus Christi risks running out of water. [1] — Gina Hinojosa "Texas has 100+ schools closing, 150+ districts on 4-day weeks, the most uninsured children of any state, property taxes up 75%, and Corpus …" 1:12:10 Her father's decade as Texas Democratic Party chair taught her one primary lesson: she did not want that life. But the legislature showed her that all Texas's problems trace back to the same root cause.
Texas has 100+ schools closing, 150+ districts on 4-day weeks, the most uninsured children of any state, property taxes up 75%, and Corpus Christi potentially running out of water. Gina Hinojosa frames all of it as a single cause: the Greg Abbott corruption tax, where policy is driven by donor money and everyone else pays more and gets less.
Over 100 schools are shutting down in Texas and over 150 school districts have moved to 4-day weeks because they cannot afford to operate 5 days a week.
Property taxes in Texas have increased approximately 75% under Governor Greg Abbott's tenure.
