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Juana Cantu-Cabrera
Juana Cantu-Cabrera (Republican Party) ran in a special election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 34th Congressional District. She lost in the special general election on June 14, 2022.
Cantu-Cabrera also ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 34th Congressional District. She lost in the Republican primary on March 1, 2022.
Cantu-Cabrera completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Juana Cantu-Cabrera was born in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Cantu-Cabrera earned an associate degree from Pan American University in 1988, a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Texas at Pan American in 1990, a graduate degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in 1994, and a doctorate from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2008. Her career experience includes working as a nurse practitioner, a sexual assault nurse examiner, and an associate professor with the University of Texas at Pan American.[1][2]
Elections
2022
Regular election
See also: Texas' 34th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 34
Incumbent Vicente Gonzalez Jr. defeated incumbent Mayra Flores and Chris Royal in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 34 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Vicente Gonzalez Jr. (D) | 52.7 | 70,896 |
 | Mayra Flores (R)  | 44.2 | 59,464 | |
 | Chris Royal (Independent) | 3.0 | 4,079 | |
| Total votes: 134,439 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ronald Mills (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 34
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 34 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Vicente Gonzalez Jr. | 64.8 | 23,531 |
 | Laura Cisneros | 23.3 | 8,456 | |
 | Beatriz Reynoso | 3.5 | 1,287 | |
 | William Thompson | 3.0 | 1,085 | |
| Filemon Meza | 2.5 | 920 | ||
 | Diego Zavala | 2.0 | 718 | |
| Osbert Rodriguez Haro III | 0.9 | 331 | ||
| Total votes: 36,328 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Rochelle Garza (D)
- Jaime Rodriguez (D)
- Ryan Trevino (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 34
Incumbent Mayra Flores defeated Frank McCaffrey, Gregory Kunkle Jr., and Juana Cantu-Cabrera in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 34 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mayra Flores | 60.3 | 9,490 |
| Frank McCaffrey | 21.9 | 3,444 | ||
 | Gregory Kunkle Jr. | 10.7 | 1,677 | |
 | Juana Cantu-Cabrera | 7.1 | 1,115 | |
| Total votes: 15,726 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Larry Polsky (R)
- Philip Sotelo (R)
Special election
See also: Texas' 34th Congressional District special election, 2022
General election
Special general election for U.S. House Texas District 34
Mayra Flores defeated Dan Sanchez, Rene Coronado, and Juana Cantu-Cabrera in the special general election for U.S. House Texas District 34 on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mayra Flores (R) | 50.9 | 14,799 |
 | Dan Sanchez (D) | 43.4 | 12,606 | |
 | Rene Coronado (D) | 4.2 | 1,210 | |
| Juana Cantu-Cabrera (R) | 1.6 | 454 | |
| Total votes: 29,069 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Juana Cantu-Cabrera completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cantu-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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I have voted Republican for a few time in the general but I’ve always acknowledge myself as an Independent. I am new to GOP. I am not a diehard fan of some of the GOPs platforms but I am proud to represent the Party. I am the only candidate running that is pro-women’s health rights.
About me: I was not born here but I am from here. My parents and my siblings graduated from Mercedes. Mom was born in Harlingen in 1931 and my dad was born in Mercedes that same year. They were both the oldest in their family.
They met when they were 14 years old in Mercedes. My father’s parents had a restaurant called the Mer-Tex Cafe. They opened it after my grandfather came back from WW2. My grandmother, Lupita Mejia Cantu, with a 2nd grade education kept the Mer-Tex going after my grandfather died in 1979. She kept it open until her untimely death at the age 93 in 2003...that is another story.
I spent a lot of time with my parents in 2021. I learned a lot more about them during the time they were teenagers and I understand why they raised my brothers and I the way they did.
They are now both 90 years old, and don’t understand why our President is protecting the borders of other countries but not our own. They are frustrated that the culture of independence and prosperity is being depleted and not enhanced. I want to take that frustration away.
I live in CD-34. Vote for me for the US Congress. I will take that frustration away and turn it into independence, liberty, and security for RGV.
First, Securing our border is paramount. I have worked as an NP to provide care to undocumented immigrants for 12 years at Port Isabel Detention Center Homeland Security through a contracting agency. I understand the losses and the sacrifices that our local healthcare providers, nurses, detention officers and ICE agents have endured during this time. We need reform and we need to control these borders to also ensure that communicable diseases don’t come through as they currently do at this time. People don’t think about tuberculosis….We need to increase our support for our primary care/mental health providers, hospitals, first responders, law enforcement, and military services.
- Elderly care needed to be worked on our healthcare and their cost of living adjustment. Covid- your choice if u want it or not. We will all end up getting this. Try to stay healthy and avoid the the diseases that will compromise your life. We the people run the government, not the government running the people.
Our school system: take the federal government out of our education and leave it to the state. No CRT. We need to stop with this racist way of thinking. The Valley has come a long way from back in the day, but that’s just it, it was back in the day. Turn the page on this hate culture. God has a plan and CRT is not in there. Remove any Federal laws that discourage parents from talking to their schools about their children’s education.
2 things in particular: more OB coverage for our pregnant veterans, more community specialty resources, faster payout for those community providers.
For the older population: not a nursing home, but a medical home for older veterans and their spouses that need to downsizing. Like John Knox VA style.
2. Prevention of abuses, violent acts and sexual assaults are a component that I want to bring back to the table. We need to think more about victims and their individual’s rights. They should be in charge of their destiny. If you can breathe in air then you have constitutional rights that need to be respected.
I helped my community’s students set up health fairs throughout the Valley and helped them organize the administration of flu shots.
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Campaign website
Cantu-Cabrera's campaign website stated the following:
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Immigration Reform During the period that the “Stay in Mexico” policy was dismantled by the Biden Administration, 1.7 million illegal immigrants entered the United States. This, however is only the beginning of immigration reform. We must reignite the relationship we previously had with Mexico who had aided in the prevention of illegal entrances. Agriculture With the devastation caused by flooding and freezing temperatures in our district, the economic growth of our farming industry was staggered. I will be committed to supporting policies that allow our south Texas farmers to thrive and prosper. Veterans The sacrifices that our veterans and their families have incurred in defense of our nation is immeasurable. By working with local communities and the VA’s Valley Coastal Bend, I will ensure that veterans will continue to receive top notch health care. Oil and Natural Gas America will be safer and stronger economically with less reliance on foreign sources of energy. America needs a national energy policy that focuses on more renewable resources, environmentally sound development of fossil fuels, and incentives for conservation. Healthcare Rising health care costs, increasing aging of baby boomers and the silent generation, with the influx of illegal immigrant entry, potential compromise to access of medical resources. Need to work on creative ideas that can improve medical health access through telemedicine as well as modifying the pricing in pharmaceutical industry. Most importantly ensuring that Americans are in control of their health care decisions. Military Naval Air Station in Kingsville provides jet/strike aviation trainings since the 1940’s. Review and initiate updates needed to support these trainings for our Navy and Marine Corps pilots. Foreign Policy The United States must ensure citizens that are still stuck in Afghanistan are not forgotten! We must bring them home! National Debt 28 trillion dollars of debt. We can not fix this unless the American People strive on prosperity that is independent from our government. We must change governmental spending culture. Medical Examiners Office With a new Medical School in the Valley, initiating the evolvement of a Medical Examiners Office so that we can accurately determine the cause and manner of deaths that occur in district 34 as well as the surrounding districts. This may help identify family medical histories, contagious diseases, and help prevent further premature or preventable deaths within our community. Restore the American Dream Prosperity is the product of self-discipline, enterprise, saving and investment by individuals, but it is not an end in itself. 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.[3] |
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| —Juana Cantu-Cabrera's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 29, 2022
- ↑ Juana Cantú-Cabrera, "About," accessed February 12, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Juana Cantú-Cabrera, “Home,” accessed January 18, 2022
