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James Burnett
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Elections and appointments
Last election

March 1, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

Houston Baptist University, 2017

Personal
Birthplace
Houston, Texas
Religion
Christian
Profession
Community engagement coordinator
Contact

James Burnett (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 76. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 1, 2022.

Burnett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

James Burnett was born in Houston, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree from Houston Baptist University in 2017. His career experience includes working as a community engagement coordinator for Harris County Precinct One. Previously, he was a division supervisor at the Fort Bend County District Clerk's Office and an administrative aide for the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Texas House of Representatives District 76

Suleman Lalani defeated Dan Mathews in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 76 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Suleman Lalani
Suleman Lalani (D) Candidate Connection
 
57.3
 
28,312
Image of Dan Mathews
Dan Mathews (R) Candidate Connection
 
42.7
 
21,131

Total votes: 49,443
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Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for Texas House of Representatives District 76

Suleman Lalani defeated Vanesia Johnson in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas House of Representatives District 76 on May 24, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Suleman Lalani
Suleman Lalani Candidate Connection
 
63.0
 
3,560
Image of Vanesia Johnson
Vanesia Johnson Candidate Connection
 
37.0
 
2,095

Total votes: 5,655
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 76

Suleman Lalani and Vanesia Johnson advanced to a runoff. They defeated L. Sarah DeMerchant and James Burnett in the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 76 on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Suleman Lalani
Suleman Lalani Candidate Connection
 
36.7
 
3,237
Image of Vanesia Johnson
Vanesia Johnson Candidate Connection
 
24.7
 
2,181
Image of L. Sarah DeMerchant
L. Sarah DeMerchant
 
19.3
 
1,707
Image of James Burnett
James Burnett Candidate Connection
 
19.3
 
1,703

Total votes: 8,828
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 76

Dan Mathews defeated Ramesh Cherivirala and Mike Khan in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 76 on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Dan Mathews
Dan Mathews Candidate Connection
 
51.6
 
3,849
Image of Ramesh Cherivirala
Ramesh Cherivirala Candidate Connection
 
26.5
 
1,981
Mike Khan
 
21.9
 
1,632

Total votes: 7,462
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Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

James Burnett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Burnett's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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James Burnett has been an activist, community leader, and public servant for over a decade. A Fort Bend native, James was raised in the Mission Bend neighborhood and graduated from George Bush High School, where he played varsity football, ran track, and was President of the Debate team. With a passion for public service and civic engagement instilled at a young age, James started volunteering for Democratic campaigns as a teenager. He worked his way to become a pillar of the Democratic institution in Fort Bend and Harris County. He went on to graduate from Houston Baptist University with a degree in Political Science, where he founded the university’s first Democratic club–College Democrats at HBU, and served as a Senator in the Student Government Association, as well as President of the Pre-Law Society. James’ professional career has been committed to public service, first working as an Administrative Aide in the U.S. Attorney’s Office -Southern District of Texas. Later, as the Division Supervisor for Jury, Passports & Public Information in the Fort Bend County District Clerk’s Office, and most recently as a Community Engagement Coordinator in Harris County Precinct One.
  • Property Taxes: The issue facing residents in HD76 is the overbearing burden of high property taxes–especially for families just buying a starter home. I am committed to ensuring that property taxes are lowered to lift some financial stress off families. We must reform the outdated property appraisal system and overcomplicated tax code to set families and homeowners up for financial success. The other matter at hand is the appropriate spending of these tax dollars. Our property taxes keep increasing every year, but our streets are not being fixed, our schools are not being funded, and we do not see the return on investment! I will work hard to make sure that property tax revenue is appropriately allocated to public services.
  • Education: I will fight to invest in early childhood education for our children’s future as it’s time we prioritized formal educational institutions. I’m also massively in favor of increasing pay for our teachers who dedicate their lives to educating our children. It’s high time we started valuing our educators who have sacrificed immensely and risked their own lives to teach our children during this pandemic. It’s also time to modernize our community college and public university system to make their functionality more cost-effective and restore state investment in public higher education to ensure students graduate debt-free.
  • Health: Over 29% of Texans remain uninsured during this pandemic. At the same time, other medical costs continue to cause financial stress on Texans. Too many Texans are caught in the coverage gap because they don’t make enough money for private insurance, but they make just enough money to be broke but not broke enough for the government to assist them. I want to expand Medicaid and Medicare to close the coverage gap to ensure we can make healthcare accessible to as many Texans as possible.
Infrastructure

Education

Criminal Justice Reform
My first job was as a porter for an executive car service. My job was to wash the cars in the fleet and to maintain the warehouse. This was a I had between the summer after I graduated high school and my first semester of college.
Yes. It is hard to work with someone, get them to see the other side of an issue, or even get them to take to time to listen to you if you don't build some type relationship with them. Legislators are people with feelings, emotions, and opinions. In order to be able to work with them you have to know these things and how to communicate with them.

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 31, 2022


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