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Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 52. He lost in the Republican primary runoff on May 24, 2022.
McGuinness completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Patrick McGuinness earned a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1985. His career experience includes working as an engineer in high-technology at Dell.[1]
Education
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, John Hopkins University, class of 1985.
- M.A., Computer Science, John Hopkins University, class of 1985.
- Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, class of 1991.[2]
Professional experience
- Engineer, semiconductors, Motorola and Freescale[2].
Elections
2022
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 52
Caroline Harris defeated Luis Echegaray in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 52 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Caroline Harris (R)  | 55.9 | 43,498 |
 | Luis Echegaray (D) | 44.1 | 34,256 | |
| Total votes: 77,754 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for Texas House of Representatives District 52
Caroline Harris defeated Patrick McGuinness in the Republican primary runoff for Texas House of Representatives District 52 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Caroline Harris | 50.6 | 4,917 |
 | Patrick McGuinness | 49.4 | 4,809 | |
| Total votes: 9,726 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 52
Luis Echegaray advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 52 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Luis Echegaray | 100.0 | 6,838 |
| Total votes: 6,838 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 52
Patrick McGuinness and Caroline Harris advanced to a runoff. They defeated Nelson Jarrin and Jonathan Schober in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 52 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Patrick McGuinness | 35.1 | 5,721 |
| ✔ | | Caroline Harris | 31.4 | 5,110 |
 | Nelson Jarrin | 25.8 | 4,198 | |
 | Jonathan Schober | 7.7 | 1,261 | |
| Total votes: 16,290 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Tjitse Miller (R)
Campaign finance
2010
McGuinness lost the election to Texas House of Representatives District 50. He defeated Ryan Lambert in the March 2 Republican primary but was defeated by incumbent Democratic candidate Mark Strama in the November 2 general election.[3]
| Texas House of Representatives, District 50 2010 General election results | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidates | Votes | Percent | ||
 Mark Strama (D)
|
23,720 | 54.84% | ||
| Pat McGuinness (R) | 18,041 | 41.71% | ||
| Emily Cowan (L) | 1,486 | 3.43% | ||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Patrick McGuinness completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McGuinness' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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In 1991, I got my doctorate in Computer Science, got married and moved here to central Texas to work as an engineer at Motorola, and now Dell. My wife Celeste and I have four amazing children. Our three eldest kids graduated through Westwood High in the Round Rock schools, and our youngest Mark is a ninth grader at Gateway College Prep near Georgetown. I’m an Eagle scout and active scouting Dad. We live south of Lake Georgetown and we attend St. Helen’s Catholic Church in Georgetown. I'm also a life-long Constitutional conservative and Reagan Republican. I have supported conservative causes and Republican candidates for decades. I've helped JP, school board and city council candidates, to volunteering on the data team for the Ted Cruz Presidential campaign in 2016. I served as precinct chair, founded and led the North Austin Republicans club, and in 2017 I led a coalition of parents and taxpayers to fight against the 2017 Round Rock school bonds, and we won. My activism and Republican party support has been motivated by my core constitutional conservative principles.
I'm a proven, principled, problem-solving conservative leader. I am ready to take those skills to the Texas House.- Empower parents in education and end leftist indoctrination.
- Secure the border and push back against Biden's mandates.
- Lower property taxes.
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2010
Jobs and prosperity
- Supports low tax rates.
- Opposes government spending programs as a means of job creation.
- Opposes the current levels of government regulation.
Fiscal responsibility
- Supports spending caps.
- Opposes federal mandates.
- Opposes caps on spending.
Tax relief
- Supports lower taxes.
- Supports reducing and reforming property taxes, including capping appraisal increases at 5%.
- Supports increased exemption for small businesses from the margins tax.
- Signed Americans for Tax Reform's Taxpayer Protection Pledge, promising never to support any tax increase.
'Excellence in education
- Supports more local control of schools.
- Supports school choice for parents.
- Opposes charter school caps.
- Supports accountability and incentives for teachers.
- Opposes non-essential mandates for schools.
University education
- Opposes the top 10% rule, supporting in its place merit-based acceptance for the University of Texas.
Affordable energy
- Opposes "misguided mandates, regulations and subsidies that... raise electric bills and burden taxpayers."
Texas values and Texas sovereignty
- Pro-life.
- Opposes gay marriage.
- Supports state sovereignty and a strong 10th Amendment.
- Opposes, and supports legal challenges to, "unconstitutional Federal healthcare mandates."
- Supports traditional values.
Transportation
- Opposes any increases in gas taxes.
- Believes toll roads are a sometimes-necessary last resort.
- Opposes diversions of gas tax money to non-road purposes.
- Supports full transparency and accountability for money spent.
- Supports prioritizing investments to relieve congestion.
Government accountability
- Supports increased transparency at all levels.
- Supports open books for institutions of higher education.[2]
Campaign finance summary
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Community service and involvement
- Eagle Scout[2].
Personal
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- McGuinness and his wife, Celeste, live in Austin with their four children. They attend Saint Thomas More Catholic Church, where McGuinness served as a lector minister[2].
Contact information
Campaign Address:
9310 Old Lampasas Trail
Austin, Texas 78750
Phone: (512) 377-1307
E-mail: campaign@patmcguinness.org
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 20, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Pat McGuinness campaign site
- ↑ Official Texas Election Results
