Texas House of Representatives District 69 candidate surveys, 2022

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This article shows responses from candidates in the 2022 election for Texas House of Representatives District 69 who completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.

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Candidates and election results

General election

General election for Texas House of Representatives District 69

Incumbent James Frank defeated Walter Coppage and Michael Neumann in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 69 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		James Frank (R)	79.1	40,299
		Walter Coppage (D)	18.7	9,528
		Michael Neumann (L)	2.2	1,100

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 50,927
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Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Walter Coppage (D)

Public education is job #1. For Texas to have the best jobs in America, we need the best public schools in America to be right here in Texas. I will work to fund the best schools staffed with great teachers. Everyone knows that quality costs more, at least everyone in the 69th District does. Our district lacks the ability to tax adequately to provide the education we want for our students. Texas has complicated formulas to determine the funds our school districts receive. Since at least 1984, Texas has been underfunding our schools to the point that Texas schools are now underfunded by $4,000 per student compared to the national average. I will work to solve that problem.

VOTING RIGHTS What actions would you take to ensure that all eligible voters have equal access to safe and fair elections? I support The Freedom to Vote Act and The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. I will stand against voter suppression and the laws passed to keep people from voting. I will stand up against the current and future officeholders that continue to spread lies about the integrity of our voting system. Every Texan deserves no less than the right to vote for their choices on a ballot. If it is easier for me to vote than for my neighbor to vote, that is a wrong that I will work to correct. Who is my neighbor? Everyone is my neighbor.

Expanding Healthcare Coverage Texas leads the nation in the number of people who are unable to afford to see a doctor. Rural Texas has an even higher percentage who can’t afford to see a doctor or fill a prescription. Expanding Medicaid in Texas is our best chance to bring affordable healthcare to an estimated one million Texans. Texas is one of twelve states that have failed to take advantage of expanding Medicaid. Every state surrounding Texas has adopted and implemented Medicaid Expansion. New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana have all implemented Medicaid Expansion. If Texas adopted and implemented Medicaid Expansion, it would bring approximately $5.41 billion in federal dollars annually to the state.

Michael Neumann (L)

I will work to end the political doublespeak and logical fallacies that are bankrupting our society and draft proposals removing what many consider double standards currently benefiting those in political office.

Together we must find the middle path. There are many highly emotional and unresolved disagreements about healthcare and constitutional rights negatively affecting Texas and our country. There should be full spectrum debate on our most pressing issues, or we will again experience the pendulum to swing to the next extreme. I will work to open these debates and allow public comment as they progress.

Suppressing the talents and gifts of any individual or group to benefit others inevitably hurts the masses since they lose the productivity, creativity, and ingenuity of the suppressed person/s. A policy of absolute equality where people are respected based upon merit that is blind to race, religion, creed, gender, or sexual orientation must be proposed.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Walter Coppage (D)

Education is the "Silver Bullet" to a better country, state, city and community. Together we can build a better life for all by having great schools.

Michael Neumann (L)

Putting and end to the doublespeak and logical fallacies being used to sow the seeds of division between family, friends, and neighbors will be my primary target. More than any other era, our state and country has experienced a slide towards totalitarianism as politicians and corporate moguls gaslight and divide our population while removing freedoms. Blatant lies uncovered by investigative journalists are dismissed for those in office while ordinary citizens are charged for lessor offenses. These double standards have become the norm rather than the exception, I will end this. With my election a new era of accountability will begin, an era where the people who form this great nation are once again at the helm.

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