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Laurin McLaurin

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Laurin McLaurin
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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 8, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

University of Houston, 1986

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Navy

Years of service

1971 - 1977

Personal
Birthplace
Arkansas
Contact

Personal LinkedIn

Laurin McLaurin (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 97. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

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

Biography

Laurin McLaurin was born in Arkansas. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1971 to 1977. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston in 1986.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Texas House of Representatives District 97

Incumbent Craig Goldman defeated Laurin McLaurin in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 97 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Craig Goldman
Craig Goldman (R)
 
58.2
 
37,439
Image of Laurin McLaurin
Laurin McLaurin (D) Candidate Connection
 
41.8
 
26,890

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 64,329
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 97

Laurin McLaurin defeated Chris Rector in the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 97 on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Laurin McLaurin
Laurin McLaurin Candidate Connection
 
72.1
 
4,629
Image of Chris Rector
Chris Rector Candidate Connection
 
27.9
 
1,794

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 6,423
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 97

Incumbent Craig Goldman advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 97 on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Craig Goldman
Craig Goldman
 
100.0
 
13,764

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 13,764
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Laurin McLaurin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McLaurin'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 was born in Southeast Arkansas, move to Little Rock after my dad died and 
attented Middle School and high School there. I chose to attend a
vo-tech HS to take Electronics and it associated math courses. After HS, I
attended a small school in south Arkansas were I obtained an ASEET degree.
Unable to get work in electroncs becasue the military draft was still ongoing,
I joined the Navy where I received training in digital electronics,
computers, and combat display systems.  After my Navy service, I obtain a job
in Houston and worked in electronic related jobs there until January 1996, when I took a
job in Silicon Valley.  I
moved back to Texas in 2006, buying a house in Benbrook. I've lived there
every since. I'm a life long learner with a BS from University of Houston, coursework in
programming at De Anza College, and online courses from Edx.org,
Coursers.org, and Stanford University. I became a Master Gardener in 2015, and a Citizen Forester in 2019. I'm proud to be a life-long give-a-damn Democrat.
  • We need to improve Texas's educational systems to attract clean high tech, high margin, high growth jobs. The manufacturing plant that have move to Texas over the pass few years are setting Texas up to be the next Detroit rather than the next Silicon Valley.
  • Converting sunlight and wind into electricity is a much, much cleaner way to get energy then coal, oil, or natural gas. For economical and environmental reasons we need to start Texas towards a clean energy future.
  • Texas is a representative democracy within a representative democracy. When COVID struck the governor should have call on the Texas Legislature to help determine policy. When the governor failed to do so, our State Representative should have demanded he do so.
I first arrived in Texas on August 8, 1977, taking a job in Houston where the buzz at work was about Houston having passed a sales tax increase to fund light rail and the possibility of a High Speed Train between Hosuton and Dallas. It took Houston 20 years to get started on building the light rail. Forty-five years late, the High Speed Train has not been started. HST's use one tenth the energy per passenger mile as a airliner. On routes of 250 to 300 miles that compete time-wise with airlines and cost-wise with buses. Ten years ago Japan Central Railroad arrived in Texas offering to build just such a rail line. The entranched airlines had kept that from happening. We need to get started on building that rail line and one from Houston to Austin and onto San Antonio to have tighten the economic interaction between Texas larges cities, while reducing travel's impact on the environment.
The Bible has a verse that says "the truth will set you free". If you can't tell the truth, you don't need to be in politics. Lies imprison us in falsehoods and lead us astray. Only the truth can free us from that imprisonment.
Highly analytical mind. Outgoing personality.
To uphold the oath of their office. To execute the functions of their office in support of their electors.
I was a paperboy at 14, a busboy at 15, and worked for 6-weeks in a service station at 16; a job I was so unsuited for the owner got me a job at a film processing plant where I worked for the full, or part time, until I left for the Navy.
I prefer to read history books. I read two eleven hundred page tomes on World War II history in the 11 grade that I would like to read again. But, I can't recall their title, or who wrote them.
Laurin, Lord of the Leprechaun
Dogs among the bushes.
I see now that if in high school I had set out to be a doctor as my Mother wanted me to, I would have had much less difficult in life. Humans don't change that much in a lifetime. Computers and electronics have been and continue to be under constant change. Many of the people I worked with over the years were not able to keep up with the pace of that change. It has been a big challenge to recognize where the change is going and to learn fast enough to keep up with it.
Texas economy is being challenged by forces it can not deter; Therefore, it must be managed at the state level. The cattle business is a low margin business and is under attack by precision fermentation's soy milk and veggie burgers. The explosive growth in electrical vehicles could cut gas consumption by 25 to 30 percent over the next decade. Solar energy will disrupt the Texas electrical providers. High Speed Trains, either in Texas or elsewhere, will take the growth off of the airlines. The contained build-out of the internet will drive changes in banking, auto sales, education delivery, and many other areas of Texas economy. We can not outrun these changes, so we must get in front of them and manage them for the benefit of all Texans.
I don't believe the unicameral Communist System has any benefits other than it allows dictatorial rule. Fortunately, Texas has a bicameral system with an elected Senate and House. Although, the lack of backbone in a majority of our representative have allowed our governor to behave like a dictator.
Lawyers can be hired. The people of Texas would be better served if more engineers, doctors, accountants, farmers, and other professional served in the legislator giving a more diverse perception as to what Texas needs.
The Army use to have the slogan 'Be an army of one'. However, I think they have now realized that win you have to have allies. Allies are a good thing.
As a brown-dog Democrat (I have the Brown Cur Catahoula to prove it) I would like to think that we Democrats will eventually get control of the Texas House and can use gerrymandering to keep it. However, the use of computers offer such precision in setting district boundaries that Democrat voters would have to make up over 55 percent of Texas voters before we could expect to regain the House.

Fair representation for every Texan requires that we give up gerrymandering and go to a non-partisan committee to draw up legislature boundaries.
Transportation and Education
Why do birds fly south.

Because its too far to walk.
We each hold our vision of reality, but we have to make it mesh with other people's vision of reality. Compromise may not get you everything you want, but it will at least get you part of what you want.

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    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 23, 2022


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