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Andy Morris (Texas)
Andy Morris (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Texas State Senate to represent District 10. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Morris completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Andy Morris was born in Tucson, Arizona. He earned a bachelor's degree from Union University in 2006 and a law degree from the University of Memphis School of Law in 2010. His career experience includes working as an attorney at law, actor, missionary, and worship minister.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas State Senate District 10
Incumbent Phil King defeated Andy Morris in the general election for Texas State Senate District 10 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Phil King (R) | 61.7 | 227,475 |
 | Andy Morris (D)  | 38.3 | 141,163 | |
| Total votes: 368,638 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas State Senate District 10
Andy Morris advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas State Senate District 10 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andy Morris | 100.0 | 24,306 |
| Total votes: 24,306 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas State Senate District 10
Incumbent Phil King advanced from the Republican primary for Texas State Senate District 10 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Phil King | 100.0 | 71,277 |
| Total votes: 71,277 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Morris in this election.
Pledges
Morris signed the following pledges.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Andy Morris completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Morris' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Andy is a proud Texan, having lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 2010. Although he was born in Arizona and grew up in Kentucky and Tennessee, he got to Texas as soon as he could! He is married to his wife Kesiah, and they have one daughter, Olivia.
Andy is a graduate of the University of Memphis School of Law in 2010. He was elected to, and served on, the City Council of Aledo, Texas before he and his wife were called to be missionaries. An immigration lawyer by trade, Andy currently works at World Relief Texas, a refugee assistance organization where Andy leads the legal department. He also maintains a private practice, where he has provided free legal representation in immigration court for clients seeking asylum from persecution in their home countries. Andy is committed to building a Texas that is a beacon of hope, justice, love, prosperity, and community.
- Fighting for our working families. The decline of the middle class in Texas and America is a result of the decades-long rise of a new “gilded age” where the few richest Americans continue to gobble up the fruits of Americans’ labor for themselves. The American Dream's promise, that each new generation would be better off than the previous one, is failing. Andy will fight to end crony capitalism in Texas. He will vote to raise the minimum wage and strengthen workers' rights. He will hold bought-and-paid-for politicians accountable and crack down on the greedy mega-corporations that are sucking up the wealth of the state while destroying Texas' glorious natural environment.
- Fighting for our communities. Right now the Texas House is the only legislative body in Texas standing in the way of Governor Abbott's plan to sacrifice our public schools in favor school vouchers, a form of "welfare for the wealthy." But Abbott and his lackeys are working hard this year to get rid of any Republicans in the House that voted against his voucher bill in 2023. The time is now to flip the Texas Senate so that Abbott's plans are foiled once and for all. Andy will vote to protect our public schools. He will vote for increased funding per student, increased teacher pay, and a robust retirement/pension system. Our public schools are pillars of our Texas communities. Let's defend them!
- Fighting for our lives. What kind of a society do we wish to live in? Should we fear for the lives of our children every time we drop them off for school? All for the sake of a few people's extreme reading of the 2nd Amendment? A healthy respect for Texans’ 2nd Amendment rights must be balanced by America’s long historic acceptance of reasonable restrictions on military arms in civilian hands. Military-grade weaponry (like the AR-15), designed to destroy the human body and kill as many people as possible, does not need to be easier to obtain than a drivers' license when it can be bought and then used against the children in our schools, the families at our shopping centers, and the worshipers in our churches.
Bobby Kennedy for President, a Netflix documentary.
Ours Was the Shining Future, a book by David Leonhardt
The Tyranny of Merit, a book by Michael J. Sandel
The Meritocracy Trap, a book by Daniel Markovits
An American Sickness, a book by Elizabeth Rosenthal
Wisdom. Elected leaders must address each issue by prioritizing making the WISE choice over the POLITICAL one. Elected leaders, in making legislative decisions, should listen to experts who have dedicated their lives to studying their fields, rather than loud media voices whose sole motive is profit and whose method is inciting anger. This quality, wisdom, is sorely lacking in the Texas Senate.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 5, 2024
