Ed Cabrera
Ed Cabrera (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 28th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 1, 2022.
Cabrera completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ed Cabrera earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Florida in 1983 and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University in 1987.[1][2] Cabrera's career experience includes owning a business and working as a managing director with Merrill Lynch, Paine Webber, and Raymond James and Associates.[2]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas' 28th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 28
Incumbent Henry Cuellar defeated Cassy Garcia in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 28 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Henry Cuellar (D) | 56.7 | 93,803 |
 | Cassy Garcia (R) | 43.3 | 71,778 | |
| Total votes: 165,581 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Rafael Alcoser III (Independent)
Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 28
Incumbent Henry Cuellar defeated Jessica Cisneros in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 28 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Henry Cuellar | 50.3 | 22,895 |
 | Jessica Cisneros | 49.7 | 22,614 | |
| Total votes: 45,509 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 28
Cassy Garcia defeated Sandra Whitten in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 28 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cassy Garcia | 57.0 | 8,485 |
 | Sandra Whitten | 43.0 | 6,413 | |
| Total votes: 14,898 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 28
Incumbent Henry Cuellar and Jessica Cisneros advanced to a runoff. They defeated Tannya Benavides in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 28 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Henry Cuellar | 48.7 | 23,988 |
| ✔ | | Jessica Cisneros | 46.6 | 22,983 |
 | Tannya Benavides | 4.7 | 2,324 | |
| Total votes: 49,295 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 28
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 28 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cassy Garcia | 23.5 | 5,923 |
| ✔ | | Sandra Whitten | 18.0 | 4,534 |
 | Steven Fowler | 13.5 | 3,388 | |
 | Willie Vasquez Ng | 13.3 | 3,358 | |
 | Ed Cabrera | 13.3 | 3,343 | |
 | Eric Hohman | 11.9 | 2,988 | |
 | Rolando Rodriguez | 6.4 | 1,622 | |
| Total votes: 25,156 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ed Cabrera completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cabrera's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Ed is an immigrant who has lived the American dream.
He worked at Red Lobster to earn his way through Harvard Business School. After Harvard Ed rose through the ranks of the business world and eventually came back to South Texas with his wife twenty-two years ago buying a cattle ranch outside of San Isidro, Texas.
He has watched the horrible flow of illegal immigration at our border increase crime, drug trafficking, and violence. Ed and the workers on his south Texas ranch now have to carry sidearms because illegal immigration and the cartel is endangering their lives.
As our next Congressman, Ed will: - Finish the Wall Immediately - Double the border patrol - Fight for election integrity - Support our military and veterans in getting the care they have earned
Ed is a pro-life, pro-family Catholic.
- Build the wall
- Secure our elections
- Defend life
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Campaign website
Cabrera's campaign website stated the following:
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ADVOCATE FOR A SECURE BORDER The border crisis has devastated our community. The Democrats in Washington use it as a recruiting tool for future Democratic voters while drug lords use the crisis to enable human trafficking—a multi-billion-dollar industry. According to Pew Center, a total of 199,777 illegal aliens were captured by Border Patrol in July 2021. The flood of illegal immigrant has caused property damage, crime, and significant costs to the community. These illegal immigrants stress the city budgets for housing, food, and transport. They also increase hospitalization rates for COVID and other injuries, and school expenses for their children’s education. It is unjust to have South Texas communities bear the bulk of these costs and Ed’s plan is to change that. The federal government has been unable to secure our borders. With Democrats in control of Congress, we will continue to see uncontrolled immigration. An amnesty bill will only encourage more immigrants in search of a coveted U.S. passport. As a congressman, Ed would bring national attention to the issue and initiate legislation to:
DEFENSE OF FAMILY VALUES Ed is seeing an assault by the liberal Washington establishment to diminish the influence of faith in our society. Faith is fundamental to the lives of millions of people in the United States. Churches are institutions that bring people together and serve the communities. Traditional marriage and family are the foundation for a free society, entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values. Recently, the role of religion in politics has been amplified by lingering anger over COVID-19 restrictions that severely limited in-person worship. Closure of churches and religious organizations during the pandemic has created concern from conservative voters. Many people believe that government has been overreaching and interfering with the first freedom of our country, which assures the right to the free exercise of religion. Faith in our society is being assaulted by the liberals in Washington in other ways. They have begun to clamor for the Internal Revenue Service to restrict certain political activities for 501(c)(3) nonprofits that include many faith organizations. They accuse religious organizations of being an extension of political parties. The IRS code for tax exempted organizations states that they may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of their activities and that they may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political parties. However, political campaigning has a long history inside houses of worship for both Democratic and Republican politicians. A majority of congregations in the U.S. participate in at least one politically-related activity, including nonpartisan get-out-the-votes efforts, phone banking and candidate endorsements. Ed strongly supports the freedom of Americans to act in accordance with their religious beliefs, not only in their houses of worship, but also in their every day lives. He supports the continuation of religious organizations’ involvement in the political arena, in search of candidates that support their religious beliefs. He supports the right of the people to conduct their businesses in accordance with their moral values: Ed supports:
Ed values the right of America’s religious leaders to preach, and Americans to speak freely, according to their faith. Ed supports the appointment of justices and judges who respect the constitutional limits on the power of Congress to limit the First Amendment of the Constitution and who respect the authority of the states to decide fundamental social issues. Ed needs your support in our battle against government overreach. People of faith have been silent for too long. We have a patriotic, moral and a spiritual obligation to address the problems in our government. Ed welcomes your support. CREATE JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND SAVE OIL AND GAS JOBS As a successful small business owner and as a banker for small businesses, Ed understands what it means to sign both sides of a paycheck. Ed has experienced firsthand how burdensome rules and regulations can stifle growth or how out-of-control government can impact job creation. Conservative Republicans are the party of a growing economy that gives everyone a chance in life, an opportunity to work, learn and realize the prosperity freedom makes possible. Government cannot create prosperity, though government can limit or destroy it. Prosperity provides the means by which citizens and their families can maintain their independence from government, raise their children by their own values, practice their faith, and build communities of cooperation and mutual respect. CREATE JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND SAVE OIL AND GAS JOBS As a successful small business owner and as a banker for small businesses, Ed understands what it means to sign both sides of a paycheck. Ed has experienced firsthand how burdensome rules and regulations can stifle growth or how out-of-control government can impact job creation. Conservative Republicans are the party of a growing economy that gives everyone a chance in life, an opportunity to work, learn and realize the prosperity freedom makes possible. Government cannot create prosperity, though government can limit or destroy it. Prosperity provides the means by which citizens and their families can maintain their independence from government, raise their children by their own values, practice their faith, and build communities of cooperation and mutual respect. We have been fighting the War on Poverty for 50 years and poverty is winning. Our social safety net was originally designed to help people born into or falling into poverty. These policies rarely lift them out of poverty. Intergenerational poverty has persisted and worsened since the 1960s. The conservative Republican model makes welfare a benefit instead of an entitlement, it can put millions of recipients on a transition from dependence to independence. Unfortunately, the current Administration has nullified any meaningful work requirement and made TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) a mockery of the name. This decision ensures that those families will remain needy and cut off from the economic mainstream of American society. Keeping people dependent so that government can redistribute income is Washington liberals’ goal. The result is 130 million Americans on food stamps, on Medicaid, or on Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIPs). This is the false proposal of the Washington liberals. To support the empowerment of people, society must provide quality jobs. Fortunately, in South Texas we are the party of America’s growers, producers, farmers, ranchers, foresters, miners, commercial fishermen, and all those who bring from the Earth the crops, minerals, energy, and the bounties of our seas that are the lifeblood of our economy. We need to support these industries and their jobs, while expanding aggressively into new industries in healthcare, technology and space. Our country and specifically South Texas have abundant energy resources (oil, natural gas and other fuel sources). Together, the people of America’s energy sector provide us with power that is clean, affordable, secure, and abundant. Their work can guarantee the nation’s energy security for centuries to come if, instead of erecting roadblocks, government facilitates the creation of a coherent energy strategy. Three decades ago, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) leased 12.2 million acres. In 2014, it leased only one-tenth of that number. Keeping energy undeveloped will keep jobs out of reach of those who need them most. A strong energy policy has many benefits: Energy exports will create high paying jobs throughout the United States
Energy is both an economic and national security issue. Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind can provide only a small fraction of the energy needs of our country. Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind can provide only a small fraction of the energy needs of our country. Ed supports the enactment of policies to increase domestic energy production, including production on public lands, to counter market manipulation by OPEC and other nationally owned oil companies. This will reduce America’s vulnerability to energy price volatility. To advance this process, we urge greater state and local responsibility for, and control over, the federally controlled land and corresponding programs. Ed seeks a comprehensive job creation strategy for the South Texas that protects the strong local industries and attracts new industries. Ed proposes:
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| —Ed Cabrera's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 17, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ed Cabrera for South Texas, "About," accessed February 3, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Ed Cabrera for South Texas, “Issues,” accessed January 19, 2022
