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Tony Salas
Tony Salas (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 144. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Salas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tony Salas was born in Pharr, Texas. His career experience includes working as a business development specialist.[1]
Salas founded the Greater Houston Trucking Association. He has served on the board of the Secured Finance Network and on a specialized committee of the Greater Houston Partnership.[2]
Elections
2020
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 144
Incumbent Mary Ann Perez defeated Tony Salas in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 144 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mary Ann Perez (D) | 56.4 | 17,516 |
 | Tony Salas (R)  | 43.6 | 13,528 | |
| Total votes: 31,044 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 144
Incumbent Mary Ann Perez advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 144 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mary Ann Perez | 100.0 | 3,999 |
| Total votes: 3,999 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 144
Tony Salas advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 144 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tony Salas | 100.0 | 2,508 |
| Total votes: 2,508 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tony Salas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Salas' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Currently, Tony, works in finance as a business development specialist, doing commercial lending to small and medium sized companies. In less than two years, he has scaled to become Vice-President of his division.
Tony had his first exposure to politics, after forming The Greater Houston Trucking Association to solve the myriad of problems faced by independent truckers. He sits on the board of the Secured Finance Network and a specialized committe at The Greater Houston Partnership.- Our economy needs to be restored to pre-pandemic levels through legislative and regulatory oversight.
- We need to reform education by slashing the glut of management costs and creating a student/teacher centric model.
- What happens in Austin affects each and every constituent-we need to cut
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
