Will Franklin
Will Franklin (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 133. He lost in the Republican primary on March 1, 2022.
Franklin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Franklin earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and a graduate degree from Harvard Business School in 2000.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 133
Mano Deayala defeated Mohamad Maarouf and James Harren in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 133 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mano Deayala (R) | 61.4 | 36,849 |
| Mohamad Maarouf (D) | 36.4 | 21,826 | ||
| James Harren (L) | 2.2 | 1,297 | ||
| Total votes: 59,972 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for Texas House of Representatives District 133
Mano Deayala defeated Shelley Torian Barineau in the Republican primary runoff for Texas House of Representatives District 133 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mano Deayala | 51.1 | 7,110 |
| Shelley Torian Barineau | 48.9 | 6,806 | ||
| Total votes: 13,916 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 133
Mohamad Maarouf advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 133 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mohamad Maarouf | 100.0 | 5,405 | |
| Total votes: 5,405 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 133
Shelley Torian Barineau and Mano Deayala advanced to a runoff. They defeated Greg Travis, Will Franklin, and Bert Keller in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 133 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Shelley Torian Barineau | 28.4 | 4,459 | |
| ✔ | | Mano Deayala | 27.1 | 4,252 |
 | Greg Travis | 23.2 | 3,646 | |
 | Will Franklin | 13.2 | 2,072 | |
| Bert Keller | 8.1 | 1,275 | ||
| Total votes: 15,704 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jim Murphy (R)
Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Texas House of Representatives District 133
James Harren advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas House of Representatives District 133 on March 12, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | James Harren (L) | 88.4 | 38 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 11.6 | 5 | ||
| Total votes: 43 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Will Franklin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Franklin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As a community volunteer, Will and his family walk the walk of their Christian faith by helping foster children and in-need families through mentorship and educational support. After Hurricane Harvey, Will brought together community leaders to create the Memorial Villages First Responder Relief Fund, which supports first responders who are victims of hardship themselves.
Will graduated from The University of Texas in 1994 with honors and started his career at Parker & Parsley Petroleum Co. (now Pioneer Natural Resources) in Midland. He then moved to Houston to work for Simmons & Company, an oilfield services investment bank, before heading to Harvard for business school. He joined Riverstone Holdings at its founding before joining Lime Rock Partners in 2003 where he works on both their oil and gas and oilfield services portfolios, domestically and internationally.
Will met his wife of 26 years, Liz, in his first week at the University of Texas. Liz is a former bi-lingual primary school teacher, including in SBISD, and has been a stay-at-home mom raising their two sons.- Securing the border to stop illegal immigration and reduce crime - I firmly believe the border is a federal issue, however the Biden/Harris administration refuse to uphold the existing laws of the United States, and as the State with the longest border with Mexico, Texas is paying the price. I support the efforts of the State Legislature to apportion funds to the Governor to help secure the border, and as State Representative I will ensure the State of Texas pursues all remedies with the federal government, including reimbursement of our expenses.
- Fix the grid while fighting for a free market energy transition and ensuring Texas’ natural resources are not artificially suppressed - I will work to enable Texas’s energy economy by supporting free markets, eliminating regulations, and limiting the effects of federal programs that (i) make Texas' grid less reliable, (ii) hide the true cost of renewable energy’s lack of reliability, and (iii) unnecessarily have a negative impact on the value of Texas's natural resource assets, which thereby lowers our tax base, defunds our education and infrastructure spending, and hurts our employment opportunities.
- Promote free enterprise to continue to grow our economy. A healthy economy is the best way for all Texans to raise their standard of living thereby better empowering personal responsibility. To ensure that Texas remains the best place to work and raise a family we must protect personal property rights, lower property taxes, and enable a robust economy which creates high-paying jobs. This requires reasonable and principled regulations that increase certainty for businesses. With this certainty business formation and/or attraction of businesses to Texas can continue, which creates more opportunities for Texans and adds to our tax base allowing us to continue investing in our education system.
Having spent my entire career in the upstream oil & gas business, knowing how important hydrocarbons are to human flourishing, to our job base, to our tax base, to our State economy, and to our grid; I know this is an area we cannot overlook and must assure that any energy transition occurs on a free market's basis (that means consumers have transparent information to make good decisions about their energy preferences, and that government stays out of those choices).
In addition to Energy and Economic Policy, I will be focused on Tax/Spend Policy, Crime, Education, and Texas' failing foster care system, always with the needs of HD-133 being top of mind.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 8, 2022
