Tina Blum Cohen

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Tina Blum Cohen
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Republican Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

March 5, 2024

Education

High school

Bellaire High School

Bachelor's

Boston University, 1980

Personal
Birthplace
Beaumont, Texas
Religion
Jewish
Profession
Business executive
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Tina Blum Cohen (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 7th Congressional District. She lost in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.

Blum Cohen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Tina Blum Cohen was born in Beaumont, Texas. Cohen graduated from Bellaire High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast communications from Boston University in 1980. Cohen's career experience includes working as the president of Blum’s Furniture.[1][2][3]

Elections

2024

See also: Texas' 7th Congressional District election, 2024

Texas' 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)

Texas' 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 7

Incumbent Lizzie Pannill Fletcher defeated Caroline Kane in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 7 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (D)
 
61.3
 
149,820
Image of Caroline Kane
Caroline Kane (R) Candidate Connection
 
38.7
 
94,651

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

Total votes: 244,471
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Republican primary runoff election

Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 7

Caroline Kane defeated Kenneth Omoruyi in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 7 on May 28, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Caroline Kane
Caroline Kane Candidate Connection
 
50.4
 
2,539
Image of Kenneth Omoruyi
Kenneth Omoruyi Candidate Connection
 
49.6
 
2,495

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

Total votes: 5,034
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 7

Incumbent Lizzie Pannill Fletcher defeated Pervez Agwan in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 7 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
 
74.2
 
27,902
Image of Pervez Agwan
Pervez Agwan Candidate Connection
 
25.8
 
9,679

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

Total votes: 37,581
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 7

Kenneth Omoruyi and Caroline Kane advanced to a runoff. They defeated Carolyn B. Bryant and Tina Blum Cohen in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 7 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Kenneth Omoruyi
Kenneth Omoruyi Candidate Connection
 
41.9
 
9,834
✔
Image of Caroline Kane
Caroline Kane Candidate Connection
 
24.6
 
5,764
Image of Carolyn B. Bryant
Carolyn B. Bryant Candidate Connection
 
18.7
 
4,382
Image of Tina Blum Cohen
Tina Blum Cohen Candidate Connection
 
14.9
 
3,489

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

Total votes: 23,469
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 7

No candidate advanced from the convention.

Candidate
Image of Roy Eriksen
Roy Eriksen (L)

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

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Endorsements

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2022

See also: Texas' 7th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 7

Incumbent Lizzie Pannill Fletcher defeated Johnny Teague in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 7 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (D)
 
63.8
 
115,994
Image of Johnny Teague
Johnny Teague (R) Candidate Connection
 
36.2
 
65,835

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

Total votes: 181,829
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary runoff election

Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 7

Johnny Teague defeated Tim Stroud in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 7 on May 24, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Johnny Teague
Johnny Teague Candidate Connection
 
63.6
 
9,152
Image of Tim Stroud
Tim Stroud Candidate Connection
 
36.4
 
5,239

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

Total votes: 14,391
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 7

Incumbent Lizzie Pannill Fletcher advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 7 on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
 
100.0
 
29,579

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

Total votes: 29,579
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 7

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 7 on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Johnny Teague
Johnny Teague Candidate Connection
 
43.0
 
9,293
✔
Image of Tim Stroud
Tim Stroud Candidate Connection
 
29.4
 
6,346
Image of Tina Blum Cohen
Tina Blum Cohen Candidate Connection
 
8.3
 
1,792
Image of Lance Stewart
Lance Stewart Candidate Connection
 
8.2
 
1,764
Image of Rudy Atencio
Rudy Atencio
 
4.7
 
1,024
Image of Laique Rehman
Laique Rehman
 
4.5
 
977
Image of Benson Gitau
Benson Gitau Candidate Connection
 
2.0
 
422

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

Total votes: 21,618
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Tina Blum Cohen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Blum Cohen'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’m a first generation American born to legal immigrants in Beaumont, Texas and moved to Houston when I was 12 years old where parents, Ann & Morris Blum, built their furniture store, Blum’s Furniture on Westheimer, about a mile from the Galleria. Westheimer was a two lane dirt road, ending at Fondren Rd. I was put in charge of dusting and I still am. Houston was and is a fabulous City to grow up in. After a few years in Los Angeles after college, I came back home to Houston with my husband, John, to manage Blum’s and we’re still there today. 
My extensive experience working directly with:

the public from every neighborhood, as well as all over the world Working with factories, domestic and international, suppliers and shipping companies Working with accounting, taxes, banks, letters of credit, contracts, cash, credit cards, checks and financing, Working with rental properties and tenants Working as a substitute teacher for HISD

And a front row seat on Westheimer to the rise in human and drug trafficking as well street crimes and homelessness in Houston makes me the best person to represent Houston District 7 in Washington DC to vote against crime, drug abuse, child trafficking and growing poverty
  • Parents rights over their kids, in everything, especially at school or anything medical
  • We must secure the Southern Border
  • We need to restart oil and gas drilling while investing in renewables
The Texas Southern Border. We are a welcoming, law abiding State. We just want you to come legally.
I look up to my parents who are now both deceased. When I was a little girl in Beaumont, we didn’t have that much but it never felt that way. I had everything I needed and lots of friends at school. They worked so hard so when we moved to Houston, we weren’t poor anymore. They remained humble. I miss them terribly.
Honestly

Integrity
Hard worker

Reaching across the aisle
I like people, regardless of race, religion or zip code

I’m honest
I care about fairness

I won’t back down from a fight
To listen to their constituents and their concerns and do something about it.
That I helped make the world a better place for all of us.
I remember when President Kennedy was shot. I was in the afternoon kindergarten class. The Principal came into the class and said something to my teacher, Mrs. Fitzgerald and they both started crying. Like it was yesterday, “Children, collect your things. We have to go home right now. When they led us outside, all the parents were outside crying too. President Kennedy was dead.
My first job was at JC Penney when I was14 years old. I worked in the costume jewelry department and later men’s suits. I worked there for 2 years after school.
To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s such a great story about lawyer Atticus and his daughter Scout.
Cinderella
Billie Jean by Michael Jackson
Losing my parents.
It can change or create laws to benefit Americans
Not necessarily. Life experiences are even more important.
Keeping the US free
There should be some kind of term limits because otherwise nothing changes.
I have heard so many touching stories this past year, it’s hard to pin it down to one.
Most of the time.
I would vote Republican the vast majority of the time.
They should not weaponize it ever again.

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Campaign website

Cohen’s campaign website stated the following:

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Economy

  • America simply cannot function and be the superpower that it is without a vibrant and bustling economy. It should be our first priority to stem inflation in order promote growth in the private sector.
  • We must promote responsible de-regulation and tax cuts on our small businesses in order to foster the best market environment possible for future investment and entrepreneurial risk taking.
  • Additionally, we must remain competitive on a global scale with corporate tax rates, and we must work with our great corporations in order to incentivize their businesses to remain stateside, while considering fair yet adequate tax structures.
  • Providing the opportunity for businesses to thrive in a healthy competitive marketplace will not only encourage efficiency among firms, but will also provide the best possible products and services for the American consumer to choose from.
  • Much like the risk-taking entrepreneurs who must be stringent and accurate in their investment, the American government must also abide by those principles when it comes to government spending. We cannot allow bloat and corruption to continue to bankrupt the American taxpayer.
  • I believe America should have a balanced budget amendment to the constitution, and if elected I will do my best to further that legislation.

Border Security

  • America must retain its integrity by securing its borders.
  • Additionally, America must project its authority and sovereign control over its airspace, coastal waters and quite possibly stratosphere.
  • America cannot allow any of its borders to be controlled by any entities other than itself. This is integral to the security of our nation.
  • Furthermore, regardless of the altruistic doctrine of America, she cannot allow individuals to break the nation’s laws governing legal immigration to this country by disregarding our borders and circumventing proper immigration channels.
  • Moreover, America risks the security of each citizen of the country when we fail to properly identify and examine individuals seeking to enter our country.
  • With the risks involved due to terrorism and criminal activity, we must secure our border with every tool available today.
  • If elected I will work tirelessly toward securing our border with all the tools at our disposal, whether it be physical barriers, human capital, or tactical technologies.

The border crisis is a humanitarian one

Parental Rights

  • Families are the bedrock of American Society.
  • Parents are the foundation of the family, as they are the creators of the family. America has always and must always respect the rights of parents to decide the values that their families, and most importantly their children, will share.
  • The main supplement of the family to value structure is school.
  • Parents entrust our school systems to properly educate their youngsters.
  • Parents have inalienable rights to know and have a say in what teachers are exposing their children to.
  • Parents must be consulted on issues that arise in the children’s education or extra-curricular activities. Schools and teachers do not have unilateral authority over our children.
  • Additionally, parent’s have rights over the medical aspects of their children’s lives until they are of legal age. Only parents have the right to determine best courses of action in regards to medical procedures and are the primary decision makers in terms of mental health related issues.
  • Finally, when children do eventually grow up, if they develop medical or mental health issues later in life, past the age of consent, there should be legislation that can consider options for parents that can allow for decision making in regards to medical care while respecting the civil rights of the child.

Education
Check out this podcast episode on AFR.net from the show Jenna Ellis in the Morning: Crisis In The American Education System With: Tina Blum Cohen, Michelle Botelho, and Manny Diaz Jr.

  • Education is vital to the progress and survival of our nation.
  • America would collapse into nothing without our future generations of populace being capable of performing the necessary tasks to run the country. Our education system is the starting point for that necessity.
  • America must invest in our youth, and provide a cultivating environment for all of our youngsters.
  • To ensure our children are able to learn and absorb the critical information they will need to hone their skills needed by society, our institutions of learning must have adequate resources to provide that experience.
  • In order to lead our world in this new competitive climate, our children must have emphasis on STEM related material as well as critical reading, writing and thinking skills.
  • Additionally, Physical eduction and nutrition is critical to a population of children that is increasingly struggling with obesity and other health issues related to lack of experience with proper diet and exercise.
  • Moreover, Sports and the Arts are absolutely necessary to provide the cultural, emotional and spiritual knowledge needed to produce a vibrant, ethical and virtuous society in the future.
  • Finally, a publicly funded option for higher learning and or continuing education should be created to produce a capable professional workforce, and if elected I will work toward providing that opportunity to future generations.

Energy

  • Energy is the most important and influential aspect of America’s economic power and supremacy on the world economic stage.
  • America must strive for energy independence as it allows the country to project power and authority around the world.
  • Additionally, having a strong energy sector is critical for America’s national security and defense.
  • With a strong energy sector, the United States is not beholden to the demands of other countries, many of which have somewhat unfavorable views toward America.
  • Therefore, America must retain and further it’s capabilities in energy production as well as staying at the cutting edge of new technologies.
  • Oil and Natural Gas is a tremendous component of our energy sector, and to deny this is a costly mistake.
  • America needs to appreciate its natural resources and embrace our abilities to harvest them sustainably and efficiently. This includes exploring new methods and technologies, such as renewables, to produce energy, at the same time continuing to cultivate efficient methods of extracting and using traditional resources.[4]
 ”
—Tina Blum Cohen’s campaign website (2024)[5]

2022

Candidate Connection

Tina Blum Cohen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Blum Cohen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Born in Beaumont, I graduated Fondren Jr. High and Bellaire High School I have a degree in Broadcast Communications from Boston University. have lived, worked and volunteered in District 7, most of my life. My experience in retail management, design, employee benefits, credit, rental management, home building & remodeling, import, export and international trade while graduating 3 kids in HISD makes me the right choice to represent Houston District 7
  • parents have the right to make the choice, whether or not to Covid vaccinate their kids as long as they have been vaccinated with the already required vaccinations for school. The kids shouldn’t have to be masked. Neither should their parents.
  • We have to secure the Southern Border. It’s so out of control, that it’s super dangerous. Future Americans need to take the same $10,000-$15,000 and save it to spend in the US when they get approved for their visas. No one needs to walk through the Rio Grande.
  • Crime control. We have to be tougher on crime so less people will get arrested and go to prison.
Kids and teens. They’re being misled by “caring” adults that don’t really care why they’re overdosing or losing interest or not really understanding basic biology that the adults are fighting over. Parent’s have the right to restrict some material from their kids if they want to.
I really look up to my late parents. When they came to the US with literally nothing and did so incredibly well in their lives. . Such great business people and so well liked in Houston and beyond.
It’s important they follow the rule of law and it’s important that they’re proud to be Americans.
I work well with other people.
To continually look out for the safety of her constituents
Someone who freed the kids from their masks and sent them back school so they could qualify for after school activities.
The first historical event that I remember was when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. I was in the afternoon kindergarten class when my teacher, Mrs. Fitzgerald, walked into class with the Principal to say we have to go home. They were both crying.
My first job was when I was 14 years old, at JC Penney in Meyerland Plaza after school. I worked in the costume jewelry department and children’s clothing for 2 years.
Cinder all will always be my favorite.
“In My Life” by the Beatles
This pandemic
No
Getting the American people to trust their government.
I’d be happy to serve on any committees
Yes
No. I’m my own person
I’ve heard so many stories from people who live and work in District 7 and beyond, it’s hard to pick one. From Ike to Harvey and everything in between.we have nice people here.
Yes
Raising the money to finish the border security wall.

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Tina Blum Cohen campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* U.S. House Texas District 7Lost primary$100,105 $39,641
2022U.S. House Texas District 7Lost primary$50,000 $16,580
Grand total$150,105 $56,221
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 21, 2022
    2. ↑ Tina Blum Cohen For U.S. Congress, "About Tina," accessed January 28, 2022
    3. ↑ Facebook, "Tina Blum Cohen," accessed January 28, 2022
    4. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    5. ↑ Tina Blum Cohen, U.S. Congress, “Issues,” accessed January 11, 2024


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