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Rob McCarthy
Rob McCarthy (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 47. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
McCarthy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Rob McCarthy was born in Bakersfield, California. McCarthy earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California in 2006 and a graduate degree from the USC Marshall School of Business in 2014.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 47
Incumbent Vikki Goodwin defeated Rob McCarthy in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 47 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Vikki Goodwin (D)  | 61.3 | 51,045 |
 | Rob McCarthy (R) | 38.7 | 32,272 | |
| Total votes: 83,317 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 47
Incumbent Vikki Goodwin advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 47 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Vikki Goodwin | 100.0 | 13,281 |
| Total votes: 13,281 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 47
Rob McCarthy advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 47 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rob McCarthy | 100.0 | 8,463 |
| Total votes: 8,463 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Rob McCarthy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McCarthy'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 Bakersfield, California, an excellent, family-oriented community that has stayed reasonable while the state has gone extreme. I graduated college in 2006 and worked in local, state, and federal government before earning an MBA in 2014. I then spent nearly two years selling software in Sydney, Australia before moving to Austin in 2016.
My wife and I bought a home in the Austin suburbs in 2016 because we saw this as an excellent, family-oriented community where we can own a home with a backyard and send our children to good schools. As a father and husband, I refuse to sit silently while fanatical liberals allow the creation of homeless camps in our public spaces, defund police, and try to raise taxes in order to bring socialist policies to Texas.- Keep Government Limited – The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Texas explain the role of government. Questions of the propriety of a government action can be answered in these pages. Restricting government from overreach will lower expenditures and enable a reduction of tax rates.
- Spending Must Be Responsible – All members of government have the responsibility to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. It is essential that spending is limited and extremely targeted when necessary.
- Protect Our Community – All of us who have chosen to make Travis County our home have invested in this community. Both home owners and renters are choosing to invest their time and money in building a life here and deserve a fully funded and trained force of first responders to protect that investment. People who have fallen on hard times deserve assistance so that they can rejoin a community, but no one benefits from decisions by local governments that enable perpetual homeless camping.
We have a Republican majority in our legislature in Texas and we will soon have a Republican majority in the United States Congress. I want to work with the Republican majorities to limit government to the roles defined in the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Texas. I also want to ensure that our community in Travis County is a part of discussions when new regulations are being created.
Honesty is the most important principle for an elected official. If I’m elected, I’ll be as honest and transparent as possible when discussing issues. I will also be honest when dealing with an area where I am not as familiar and will need fast education on an issue. I spent a year working in the California State Assembly and five years working for a member of the United States House of Representatives. I know that service in a legislature means work on a wide variety of issues and always working quickly to learn issues ahead of votes in order to best serve constituents.
As a congressional legislative assistant from 2007-2012, I saw how much had gone into those wars in terms of both human casualties and capital expenditures, and I realized how much the world had changed. I worked specifically on Veterans Affairs issues and gained an understanding of the full cost of war. I got to see friends who I knew from childhood and also meet men who were younger than me who sustained combat wounds that will never heal. I have a great deal of respect for every individual who has been willing to put on a uniform and serve the United States of America.
Through these injuries and subsequent setbacks, I discovered determination in myself that I had never realized. Rather than accepting my limited mobility, I forced myself to walk as far as I could three times per week. I also did daily exercises to rehabilitate my vision, improve my balance, regain use of my hands, and rebuild my muscle strength. I pushed myself in every aspect of my rehabilitation.
This recovery was possible because I set objectives and worked to achieve them. Before checking out of the hospital I verbalized to my family my goal of recovering completely and returning to school the following semester. Whenever my rehabilitative specialists gave me a best-case-scenario objective, I would work through pain to surpass it. I have always been one who strives to exceed expectations and this trait has helped me in my education and my professional career and it will continue to push me in my work in the Texas Legislature.
The newspaper in my hometown of Bakersfield published updates about my recovery and my progress was followed by many. In this city of nearly 350,000, people still tell me upon meeting me for the first time that they followed my recovery intently. While there were many who silently followed my progress, my relatives are still touched by the hundreds who showed their support by visiting, providing meals, praying, or simply sending a card.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 18, 2022
