Ginny Brown Daniel
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Ginny Brown Daniel (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 150. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Brown Daniel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ginny Brown Daniel was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree from Auburn University in 1994. She earned a graduate degree from the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond in 1998. She earned a doctor of ministry from the Union Presbyterian Seminary in 2010. Her career experience includes working as a conference minister.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 150
Incumbent Valoree Swanson defeated Ginny Brown Daniel in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 150 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Valoree Swanson (R) | 60.7 | 34,842 |
 | Ginny Brown Daniel (D)  | 39.3 | 22,558 | |
| Total votes: 57,400 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 150
Ginny Brown Daniel advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 150 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ginny Brown Daniel | 100.0 | 4,476 |
| Total votes: 4,476 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 150
Incumbent Valoree Swanson defeated Debbie Riddle, Valerie McGilvrey, and Bryan Le in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 150 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Valoree Swanson | 68.5 | 8,866 |
 | Debbie Riddle | 25.3 | 3,278 | |
 | Valerie McGilvrey | 3.3 | 423 | |
 | Bryan Le | 2.9 | 378 | |
| Total votes: 12,945 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Ginny Brown Daniel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Brown Daniel's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am an ordained minister, who is running for the Texas State House of Representatives District 150. I have lived in the Spring and Tomball areas of Texas for 18 years. I am running because I have become increasingly dismayed at the polarization of our communities. Given the political climate in which we live, I understand the temptation to associate only with people who agree with their own views. However, this polarization is detrimental to the health of our communities. I have lived in various communities in my life that range in size, culture, and economic abilities. In all of these communities, there is always one thing that holds everyone together – we all want to provide a meaningful life for our families.
I am a person who knows how to listen to different people respectfully while also standing firm on the principle that every person has dignity and worth and should be treated accordingly. I am running for Texas State Representative because I want to work with people of different ideologies, cultures, and backgrounds in order to create legislation that will help everyone provide a safe and successful life for their families in Texas.
- It is time to reform the Texas power grid!
- Our legislation should empower people to provide for their families. I want to work together with diverse people to make meaningful legislation so that everyone can create a safe and successful life for their families.
- I will work with those who have been harmed by Texas legislation this past year, which includes black and brown voters, women and their reproductive rights, and courageous trans youth and their families.
I am passionate about safe storage for those who own guns so that our schools, faith communities, businesses, and homes are safe while also affirming people's rights to own a gun. I am also passionate about equipping schools to develop our children's critical thinking skills while ensuring their safety. I am passionate about empowering local businesses to be successful in DIstrict 150 so that they can provide a living wage to their employees and contribute to our community. I am passionate about advocating with women whose constitutional reproductive rights have been temporarily banned by Texas legislation. I will work with community organizations seeking to support women's reproductive choices. I am passionate about reestablishing greater voter accessibility especially for black and brown voters in District 150. As we have learned in 2020, many people want to vote but are not always able to leave their jobs and/or family at the allotted times during the day. I am passionate about allying with courageous trans youth, who have unfairly been targets of a bullying campaign in our Texas legislature. I want to support our trans youth and their families to live out who they are created to be at home, their faith community, and at school.
When I was in seminary, I took a class, where I learned about the brave leadership of Fannie Lou Hamer. Ms. Hamer lived in Mississippi and sacrificed much to help register African Americans to vote in the 1950s and 60s. She was jailed and would sing to express her devout faith that all people are created in God's image and should be respected as such. She also challenged the national Democratic Party in 1964 when they, at first, denied African Americans from Mississippi from serving as delegates. She co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to ensure African Americans in Mississippi would be fairly represented.
Even after the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Ms. Hamer continued to advocate for the economic equity of poor Mississipians until her death in 1977. She developed community gardens so that people could empower themselves by raising their own food and provide for their families themselves. It is my hope and prayer to advocate for my community in a fearless expression and, even when facing danger, to live out my faith in bold and empowering ways. It is unfortunate that we must still advocate for voting rights for black and brown voters in 2021. However, I, like Ms. Hamer, understand that our largest form of individual power is our right to vote.
Even after the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Ms. Hamer continued to advocate for the economic equity of poor Mississipians until her death in 1977. She developed community gardens so that people could empower themselves by raising their own food and provide for their families themselves. It is my hope and prayer to advocate for my community in a fearless expression and, even when facing danger, to live out my faith in bold and empowering ways. It is unfortunate that we must still advocate for voting rights for black and brown voters in 2021. However, I, like Ms. Hamer, understand that our largest form of individual power is our right to vote.
An elected official must be a leader in the community; not someone interested in power for personal advantages but someone who is interested in the advancement of the community itself. As a leader, this person must be trustworthy, of high moral character, and know how to work with people of diverse backgrounds to implement policy and funding. As a pastor in Spring, I worked with community leaders to advocate for our schools, faith communities, and social service needs for our neighbors. I spoke on interfaith panels to advocate for the respect of those of all and no faiths in our community.
An elected official must lead with vision and direction for the entire district and not just for personal or individual advantages. This vision provides the guidance to know what the community could accomplish if given the necessary resources in policy and funding. Developing this vision requires understanding the community's strengths and weaknesses in order to prioritize how to implement that vision for the community. This also requires that an elected official must be able to work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle for the sake of the community. As a minister, I am a visionary who can see the possibilities of an organization and work with them to fulfill their calling or abilities to serve the community.An elected official must be also able to lead in a time of crisis: knowing who to call to get resources to those in need, knowing how to delegate the macro and micro responsibilities in a critical time, and knowing how to communicate the situation honestly while maintaining a non-anxious presence. As a minister, I have led during crises, the most recent crisis was the beginning of the pandemic. I led my 141 churches through a first-ever shut-down of all churches providing them church guidelines, resources from the state department of health, and comfort to know they were not alone.
I am a leader, who knows how to work together with people for the success of a community. I am empathetic while also leading with strength and determination. I know how to lead in a crisis and conflict; I am not afraid of conflict but seek to work with people to solve a problem in our community. I read a lot and am constantly integrating what I've read with the current challenges in front of me and my community. I am aware of my privileges and am committed to advocating for those who experience discrimination I may not see or experience personally. I know the importance of strong businesses and seek to work with business owners and employees to advocate for our community. As a homeowner, I know the importance of keeping our neighborhoods safe for our families and community. I also know that my property taxes are necessary to fund our public schools in order to develop young people with critical thinking skills ready to lead us in the next few decades. I know that healthcare is vital to a safe and thriving community and want to support all of the healthcare workers, who have sacrificed so much during this two-year global pandemic.
On September 27, 1986, when I was 15 years old, I began working at Toomer's Drug Store in my hometown of Auburn, Alabama. Toomer's is infamous for their homemade lemonades. My first day was the Auburn-Tennessee football game, which meant I had to learn quickly how to cut lemons, carry ice from the basement to the counter, and ring up orders. Auburn, like College Station, is a small town focused on the university. And since Toomer's is located at the heart of our town, there were many people who came for a homemade lemonade. I worked for Mark Morgan, the biggest Auburn fan ever. I also worked with James Echols, who taught me what racism looked like and what my responsibility was to dismantle it throughout my life. I worked at Toomer's for five years until my sophomore year in college when I began my cooperative education work at Intergraph Corporation in Huntsville, Alabama, in their Marketing Communication department. Cooperative education means that I worked at Intergraph full-time for one semester and then took a full class load the next semester. I did this for two years because I knew that as a woman, I needed to have as much work experience under my belt as possible to offset the sexism I knew I would encounter professionally.
Bill Withers' Lovely Day. Every time I hear this song, it puts a smile on my face and reminds me that we have the potential to have and create a lovely day for ourselves and each other.
My greatest concern for the state of Texas and our entire democracy is the polarization we have created around politics and beliefs. Arlie Russell Hochschild writes about this polarization in her 2016 book, "Strangers in Their Own Land," when she says, "The more that people confine themselves to like-minded company, the more extreme their views become." The state of Texas has historically prided itself as a place where people live their lives, provide for their families, and develop successful businesses while respecting the personhood of one's neighbor. I am running because we have too many deep challenges that need to be solved at many levels of our communities that we need to bring our differences together to solve these challenges.
Some of those challenges in the next decade are the failing system of the Texas power grid, the undermining of our public schools, and the ability to retain skilled labor due to cost-of-living increases and/or discriminatory biases. Our strength is that more people are moving to Texas because of the quality of life they can provide for their families and businesses. Our challenge will be how to retain our new neighbors through strong public schools, safe neighborhoods, and economic benefits for their business and personal lives.Our schools, neighborhoods, and businesses are successful in Texas when they welcome new residents and integrate them fully into our communities. We cannot afford to polarize our new neighbors who may look, believe, or vote differently than ourselves. We must value all of our neighbors as strong and vital members of our community in order for Texas to be successful in the upcoming decade.
I recently talked to a parent of a trans youth, who was still processing the toll 2021 took on her family as they went to Austin to testify against the multiple trans youth bills. She said that her child eventually told her they couldn't testify or even go to Austin anymore because the personal innuendos and outright attacks hurt too much. No young person in Texas should have to endure and process that kind of trauma all at the hands of their state representative. The fact that my opponent sponsored, not one but two bills against trans youth is immoral. What problem was she trying to solve other than bullying young people who have already faced more adversity and animosity because they are true to who God created them to be. And this mother had to add the Texas legislature and governor to her mama-bear list of those to protect her child from in this contentious and harmful culture against her child.
And all of this for what reason? It is unacceptable that a bill passed that will now put trans youth in more harm and bullying by their teachers, classmates, and school faculty. Instead we should be ensuring their safety by creating non-discriminatory policies as well as non-bullying policies to advocate for their health and wholistic development of their personhood as we do for all of our Texas children. As State Representative, I will work with trans families to develop such non-discriminatory policies for all of our children.
And all of this for what reason? It is unacceptable that a bill passed that will now put trans youth in more harm and bullying by their teachers, classmates, and school faculty. Instead we should be ensuring their safety by creating non-discriminatory policies as well as non-bullying policies to advocate for their health and wholistic development of their personhood as we do for all of our Texas children. As State Representative, I will work with trans families to develop such non-discriminatory policies for all of our children.
The beauty and messiness of democracy is that we need each other to develop fair legislation that represents all residents. This is beautiful when we acknowledge that no one has all the answers and that we need each other to develop meaningful legislation. This is messy because it means we have to listen to one another especially when we disagree and then we must make concessions for the sake of the final product. As our political climate has become increasingly polarized, our temptation is to dig in for our particular perspective while demonizing those who disagree with our perspective. This is not healthy and doesn't reflect the founding principles of our democracy. We must be willing to come to the table with those with whom we may have nothing in common except that we share residency in Texas.
As an ordained minister, I know how to bring diverse people together for the sake of creating community. In my local church I pastored in Spring for 12 years, our church membership always consisted of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. I know how to set expectations for how we disagree and how we reconcile when we hurt one another. This is critical in policymaking -- not for ourselves but for those we have the honor of representing. I also know how to work with many different community organizations for the sake of strengthening our community for the most vulnerable among us. These are qualities necessary for policymaking so that those with the data and relationships are brought in as co-creators on policies intended for specific areas of the population that we individually with whom we may not be as familiar
As an ordained minister, I know how to bring diverse people together for the sake of creating community. In my local church I pastored in Spring for 12 years, our church membership always consisted of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. I know how to set expectations for how we disagree and how we reconcile when we hurt one another. This is critical in policymaking -- not for ourselves but for those we have the honor of representing. I also know how to work with many different community organizations for the sake of strengthening our community for the most vulnerable among us. These are qualities necessary for policymaking so that those with the data and relationships are brought in as co-creators on policies intended for specific areas of the population that we individually with whom we may not be as familiar
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- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 1, 2022
Current members of the Texas House of Representatives
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Speaker of the House:Dustin Burrows
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Keith Bell (R)
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Cole Hefner (R)
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Daniel Alders (R)
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Jay Dean (R)
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Angelia Orr (R)
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Janis Holt (R)
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Terry Wilson (R)
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Dade Phelan (R)
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Christian Manuel (D)
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Matt Morgan (R)
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Ron Reynolds (D)
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Gary Gates (R)
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A.J. Louderback (R)
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Ryan Guillen (R)
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Todd Hunter (R)
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Katrina Pierson (R)
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Oscar Longoria (D)
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Sergio Munoz (D)
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Janie Lopez (R)
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Erin Gamez (D)
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Caroline Harris (R)
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Dustin Burrows (R)
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Caroline Fairly (R)
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Ken King (R)
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Tony Tinderholt (R)
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David Cook (R)
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Charlie Geren (R)
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Jessica Gonzalez (D)
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Morgan Meyer (R)
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Valoree Swanson (R)
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