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Ryan Lee (Texas)

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Ryan Lee
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Republican Party

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Last election

March 3, 2020

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Birthplace
Houston, Texas
Religion
Christian
Profession
Fire Fighter
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Ryan Lee (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 129. He lost in the Republican primary on March 3, 2020.

Lee completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Ryan Lee was born in Clear Lake, Texas. He attended Lone Star College and Columbia Southern. Lee’s career experience includes working as the senior captain of the Houston Fire Department.[1]


Elections

2020

See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Texas House of Representatives District 129

Incumbent Dennis Paul defeated Kayla Alix in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 129 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Dennis Paul
Dennis Paul (R)
 
58.9
 
49,972
Image of Kayla Alix
Kayla Alix (D) Candidate Connection
 
41.1
 
34,823

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

Total votes: 84,795
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 129

Kayla Alix advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 129 on March 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Kayla Alix
Kayla Alix Candidate Connection
 
100.0
 
11,317

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

Total votes: 11,317
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 129

Incumbent Dennis Paul defeated Ryan Lee in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 129 on March 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Dennis Paul
Dennis Paul
 
78.9
 
10,907
Image of Ryan Lee
Ryan Lee Candidate Connection
 
21.1
 
2,925

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

Total votes: 13,832
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Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Ryan Lee completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lee's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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My name is Ryan Lee. I am a son, a husband, and a father. I have committed my career to serving our community. For 16 years I have served as a Houston firefighter, rising to the rank of senior captain. My wife, Abbey, and I have two sons, Alexander, 5, and Sebastian, 1. Our family has two rescued Dobermans and have been long time fosters, members, and advocates for Houston Area Doberman Rescue. On Sundays, you can find our family attending and volunteering at New Hope Church Webster campus. With a family run small business in Clear Lake, and with our immediate family living here, we are deeply rooted in the area.
  • It's time to put Texas House District 129 back on track. We need more effective, responsive representation of our community in Austin.
  • Our area needs an advocate in Austin with more energy and more local involvement. To properly represent our area, an elected official must be an active part of our community.
  • I look forward to working with our business community, neighborhood and civic leaders, teachers, police, and fire, and to help advocate for what District 129 truly needs.
1. Public safety

2. Public schools
3. Community infrastructure
4. Flood prevention

5. Lower taxes
I look up to my father. He epitomizes hard work, discipline, and dedication.

Politically, I admire Ronald Reagan.He did so many things to push us forward, not just in America, but abroad. Reagan is the only U.S. president who was a member of a union, and a Republican at that. As a firefighter, I served on our union board of directors as part of a larger organization that is majority Republican. I am one of thousands of Republican union members in our great state.
Ethics and the willingness to do the right thing, and hard work. We should diminish the influence of pay-to-play political contributors that enable bad elected officials defy the will of the voters.
As Ronald Reagan said, there is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. On the other hand, my opponent, the incumbent, has a self-centered website that features his purported accomplishments, not service to the community. As a firefighter, I strive to help others and be a strong member of my professional team. This commitment will continue as a state legislator.
Common sense and consideration of the consequences of our decisions are a good start. Raising two boys, my wife and I do our best to teach them to do things the right way, not the easy way. We talk about consequences. The same logic should apply to the state house. We must better consider and account for the consequences of the decisions made in Austin.
I want to leave my workplace and my community better than I found it.
The space shuttle Challenger disaster comes to mind. I remember watching it on the TV with weeping adults. The First Gulf War was the first major event where I fully understood what was taking place, and the impact it had on our country.
My first job was driving a tractor at a local driving range. I was 14 years old when I started, and that job taught me about the importance of work and earning my own way through life.
"Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson, M.D. is a favorite book. If I find myself needing a fresh perspective, I read this book.
Jack Ryan, the Tom Clancy character
"Levels" by Avicii got stuck in my head. It includes a lyric line -- "Get a feeling that I never, never, never, never had before" -- that is hard to forget.
The 30,000-foot view vs. ground level. As a representative, I am called to represent the communities that are around me, to tackle local issues. That means being involved, participating in local events, having a true connection and commitment to the district, not the status quo. Being a representative takes energy. Our district has so much energy. We need a representative who shares that energy.
I believe common sense is as important as experience. We all draw from our life experiences when making decisions, yet that seems too often to be lacking in politicians. Conflicts of interest define them, not a record of common-sense service.
Infrastructure. Texas is a great place to build or move businesses. Many cities are boom towns right now. This growth requires better long-term planning for development and maintenance of infrastructure during all economic cycles.
An ideal relationship between the governor and the legislature would be more focused on leadership and cooperation within the party and across the aisle -- in other words, getting things done. We can both get along better and still stand up for what's right. Our best legislators always have.
Not only are better relationships beneficial, they are required. In 2020, Republicans are nine seats away from losing the state House. Texas often is two years away from a possible change in the majority. If you need something done in the community you represent, bipartisan support is necessary. At the end of the day, we are all Texans, and we should put Texas first. Fighting should not be the first option.
Homeland Security & Public Safety, Pensions, Calendars.
N/A
N/A
No
First, I recently met with a group of homeowners trying to make a simple change to a state law that applied to their community and one other community in the state. This was a local issue that could have been easy to fix. However, the incumbent failed to help them over two different sessions. The incumbent told them that he would help, they spent money on lawyers to work with him, and at the 11th hour, he told them he was no longer interested in helping them. They simply wanted local residents to be able to vote on changes to association fees, which have not changed since the 1960's. What he did to them was suppress their voice and suppress democracy.

Second, with my wife and I having a small business, I have met with numerous small business owners in our community. Crime is rapidly impacting our businesses, to the point some are discussing closing their stores. This will have a negative effect, not only on our local economy, but on the appeal for new businesses and in families desire to move into our community. When our elected officials are silent on issues, and they do not listen to the citizens when called on, they need to be replaced.

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  1. ↑ ’’Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 25, 2020’’


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