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James Burnett
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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 | ||
| ✔ |  | Suleman Lalani (D)  | 57.3 | 28,312 |
 | Dan Mathews (R) | 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 | ||
| ✔ | | Suleman Lalani | 63.0 | 3,560 |
 | Vanesia Johnson | 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 | ||
| ✔ | | Suleman Lalani | 36.7 | 3,237 |
| ✔ | | Vanesia Johnson | 24.7 | 2,181 |
 | L. Sarah DeMerchant | 19.3 | 1,707 | |
 | James Burnett | 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 | ||
| ✔ | | Dan Mathews | 51.6 | 3,849 |
 | Ramesh Cherivirala | 26.5 | 1,981 | |
| Mike Khan | 21.9 | 1,632 | ||
| Total votes: 7,462 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
To view Burnett's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's 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
Honesty
Integrity
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.
County Affairs
Homeland Security & Public Safety
Homeland Security & Public Safety
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 31, 2022
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Speaker of the House:Dustin Burrows
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Sheryl Cole (D)
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Gina Hinojosa (D)
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Brad Buckley (R)
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Joseph Moody (D)
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Don McLaughlin (R)
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Brooks Landgraf (R)
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