Scott Bryan White (Texas)
Scott Bryan White (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 98. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
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Biography
Scott Bryan White was born in Lubbock, Texas. White's career experience includes working as an IT consultant. He earned a bachelor's degree from Texas Tech University in 1989.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 98
Incumbent Giovanni Capriglione defeated Scott Bryan White in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 98 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Giovanni Capriglione (R) | 65.7 | 64,833 |
 | Scott Bryan White (D)  | 34.3 | 33,845 | |
| Total votes: 98,678 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 98
Scott Bryan White advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 98 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Scott Bryan White | 100.0 | 4,972 |
| Total votes: 4,972 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 98
Incumbent Giovanni Capriglione defeated Brad Schofield in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 98 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Giovanni Capriglione | 69.6 | 15,860 |
 | Brad Schofield | 30.4 | 6,936 | |
| Total votes: 22,796 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
White received the following endorsements.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Scott Bryan White completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by White'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 grew up in Texas, and after graduating from Texas Tech with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, I built a successful career as a Managing Director with Accenture. My focus was on business processes and information technology. In 1997, my wife and I settled in Northeast Tarrant County, where we raised our three wonderful daughters. After 32 years with Accenture, I retired in 2022.
While I am proud of my Texas heritage, I am disheartened that a few extraordinarily wealthy individuals have taken over our beloved state. The Texas GOP platform has become beholden to billionaire donors, restricted women’s access to healthcare, and is attempting to inflict school vouchers on all Texans. There has been a complete radicalization in our state politics.
It is time for change! We need to take back Texas! I am stepping up to this challenge and will battle for you and our community.
Good government, like business and family, requires listening and compromise. As your next State Representative for House District 98, I promise to stand up for the values we believe in. I will fight for common-sense legislation focusing on funded public schools, economic growth, safer communities, and respect for individual rights and liberties.- Fund Public Schools
- Increase the basic allotment or price per student from $6,180 to $7,500 to account for six years of inflation. - Allow school districts to give market raises to our public educators. - Adjust teacher retirement distributions automatically for inflation. - Keep teachers’ health care insurance costs low while maintaining its quality. - Increase funds for students with disabilities.
- Increase funds for security personnel and equipment. - Reject School Vouchers - Reject School Vouchers, School Choice, or Educational Savings Accounts (ESAs) proposed by the Texas GOP. These use public school funding to pay parents for private school tuition or homeschooling. The programs propose to pay parents $8,000 per student attending a private school or homeschool. Taxes raised for public schools should fund public schools, not private programs.
- Recover Reproductive Rights & Individual Liberties - Fight for a Texas constitutional amendment that guarantees reproductive health rights based on Ohio’s reproductive health constitutional amendment: “Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception; fertility treatment; continuing one’s own pregnancy; miscarriage care; and abortion.” - Remove criminal charges and civil penalties related to abortion procedures so that medical practitioners may confidently provide these services.
- Fight against school vouchers
- $1,000 surplus refund for taxpayers to help with inflation
- Repeal the total ban on abortion
- Property tax relief
- Fix the power grid
- Legalize cannabis
- Affordable healthcare
- Strong local economy
- Secure our borders
- Set limits on campaign contributions for Texas politicians.
- Set term limits for Texas elected representatives to 12 years in office.
- Propose a constitutional amendment to allow citizens to initiate ballot measures.
- Raise the pay for elected House and Senate officials from $7,200 to $70,000 annually, enabling any citizen to run.
- Allow the legislature to meet yearly instead of every other year.
- Encourage the use of Rank-Choice Voting to elect nonpartisan political positions (e.g., School Boards, City Councils, and Mayors).
- Expand vote-by-mail options to make voting more convenient for all Texans.
- Modernize our voter registration system to allow for online and same-day voter registration to increase participation in all elections.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 6, 2024
