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LEAGUE of WOMEN VOTERS® 2016 Primary Election Edition O F T E X a S Nonpartisan March 1, 2016 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS® 2016 PriMary ElEction Edition o F t E X a s nonPartisan March 1, 2016 oters uideAM PM VEarly voting • FEbruary 16 – 26 G ElEction day, March 1, 2016 • Polls oPEn 7 to 7 Cast an informed vote in the Primary Election • Candidates’ answers on issues that affect you: EnvironMEnt • Education • accEss to JusticE About This Voters Guide What to Take to the Polls This printed Voters Guide lists candidates in contested races who are on the March 1, 2016, TEXAS REQUIRES VOTERS TO SHOW PHOTO ID Primary Election ballot and provides their answers to questions posed by the League of Women Texas now requires voters to show an acceptable photo ID Voters of Texas Education Fund. at the polls. The only acceptable photo IDs are: Additional information can be accessed online at www.VOTE411.org, including an online TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY (DPS) Voters Guide with candidate races not included in the printed Voters Guide. VOTE411 allows ISSUED PHOTO IDS voters to enter an address and review races and ballot initiatives speciic to that address. It also • Driver license includes the responses of candidates who miss the print deadline. • Personal identiication card This Voters Guide is funded and published by the League of Women Voters of Texas Education • Concealed handgun license Fund. For more than 95 years, helping voters cast an informed vote when they go to the • Election Identiication Certiicate polls has been the primary goal of the League of Women Voters. As an organization that UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ISSUED PHOTO IDS encourages informed and active participation in government, the League believes that all of Passport us are stakeholders in Making Democracy Work®. Neither the League nor the Education Fund • supports or opposes any political party or candidate. • Military identiication card • Citizenship certiicate or naturalization certiicate with photograph Races & Candidates Only the above photo IDs can be accepted at the polls. Other This Voters Guide lists candidates for statewide and regional races in Texas, including Railroad photo IDs, including student IDs, employer IDs and out-of- Commissioner, Texas Supreme Court, Court of Criminal Appeals, Courts of Appeals, and the state driver licenses, cannot be accepted. See PHOTO ID State Board of Education. DETAILS AND EXCEPTIONS on back page. Only candidates in political parties that select their candidates in the primary election are included, currently Democratic and Republican parties. Candidates in other parties are selected Table of Contents by convention. PrEsidEnt oF thE unitEd statEs ............................. 2 Questionnaires are sent to candidates in races that are contested within the same party. Candidate railroad coMMissionEr .......................................... 2-3 replies are printed without editing or veriication. Due to space restrictions, candidates are voting For JudgEs in tEXas ...................................4 given strict character limits. Replies exceeding the character limit are indicated by slashes (///). .............................................. Candidates are asked to avoid references to their opponents; those who do not comply are listed tEXas suPrEME court 5-6 with the notation, “Response does not meet criteria.” Candidates appearing with no photo failed court oF criMinal aPPEals .................................... 7-9 to submit one. Those who do not respond to our questionnaire are listed with the notation, “No courts oF aPPEals ................................................... 9-13 response received by print deadline.” statE board oF Education ...................................... 14-15 This Voters Guide is organized by oice, with candidates listed alphabetically by party. Ballot Photo id dEtails and EXcEPtions .......................... 16 order may vary from county to county. The names of unopposed candidates are also listed. sPonsor rEcognition ............................................. 16 © 2016 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF TEXAS EDUCATION FUND • www.lwvtexas.org The Voters Guide is protected by copyright. For permission to duplicate the guide, please call the LWV-Texas ofice at 512-472-1100. YOU MAY BRING THIS VOTERS GUIDE inTo The VoTing booTh! in 1995, The Texas LaW prohibiTing use oF prinTed maTeriaLs, such AS THIS VOTERS GUIDE, IN THE POLLING PLACE WAS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL. (TEXAS ELECTION CODE, SECTION 61.011) Voters Guide • 2016 Primary Election Edition 1 © 2016 League of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund • lwvtexas.org PRESIDENT OF THE THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES QUALIFIED FOR THE TEXAS BALLOT ACCORDING TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND WILL APPEAR ON THE REPUBLICAN AND UNITED STATES DEMOCRATIC BALLOTS. exas 2 0 1 6 t REPUBLICAN PARTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY JEb bush ElizabEth gray Marco rubio hillary clinton Martin J. o’MallEy bEn carson lindsEy grahaM rick santoruM roquE “rocky” dE la FuEntE bErniE sandErs chris christiE MikE huckabEE donald J. truMP calvis l. haWEs WilliE l. Wilson tEd cruz John r. kasich kEith Judd carly Fiorina rand Paul star lockE 6-YEAR TERM. MUST BE AT LEAST 25 YEARS OLD, A TEXAS RESIDENT, AND A R A I L R O A D REGISTERED VOTER. REGULATES THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY, GAS UTILITIES, PIPELINE SAFETY, SAFETY IN THE LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS INDUSTRY, & COMMISSIONER SURFACE COAL AND URANIUM MINING IN TEXAS. exas 2 0 1 6 t QUESTIONS TO CANDIDATES BACKGROUND: What training, experience, and characteristics qualify you for URBAN DRILLING: What are the main health and safety issues related to oil this position? and gas drilling (fracking) in urban areas, and how would you address them? TRANS-PECOS PIPELINE: how would you balance the environmental OTHER ISSUES: aside from the issues above, what are the two most serious concerns of big bend residents related to construction of the trans-Pecos issues the railroad commission will face during the next term, and how would natural gas pipeline with oil and gas industry interests? you address them? LANCE N. CHRISTIAN (R) BACKGROUND: As a geologist (P.G. 10342) in the Groundwater groundwater sampling programs before drilling, during well development, Advisory Unit, I am the only candidate with Railroad and after completion is the most deinitive method to discern pollution issues. Commission of Texas (RRC) experience. I am a technically Additional casing and cementing may be necessary in well construction plans to oriented person with no previous political experience that will prevent such issues. Second, are issues relating to induced seismicity. Those issues analyze issues objectively, while serving no political interests. warrant further investigation. TRANS-PECOS PIPELINE: Most of the environmental OTHER ISSUES: The impending review by the Sunset Commission in 2016 is concerns for natural gas pipelines are acute issues during the most important issue that will be faced by the RRC. This review, coupled the initial construction phase. Pollution concerns are minimal compared to with the state of the oil & gas industry, will create a storm of scrutiny over the denser hydrocarbon products that may enter the groundwater and linger. If the next year. As an employee of the RRC, I will be best suited to explain RRC construction is carried out with a minimal environ. footprint, the pipeline scar functions to the legislature. Secondly, induced seismicity issues in North Texas would likely not be visible in a few years. Most pipeline locations today are are a concern to residents in that area. As a geologist, I am the best qualiied unknown to the public. If special issues arise then consideration of those issues candidate to review seismicity studies. would be required. EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science - Geological Sciences, 1994 Bachelor of Arts - Geography, URBAN DRILLING: There are two primary threats from 'fracking' activities. First, 1995 Masters Program - Geological Sciences (incomplete) is the possibility of groundwater contamination by induced fracturing. Efective PHONE: (512) 443-1032 | EMAIL: [email protected] JOHN GREYTOK (R) BACKGROUND: This position is basically a judicial one. The give priority to the health, safety, and welfare of all Texans. We must always be Railroad Commission functions as a tribunal. While there is not alert and open to new information about the costs and risks of industrial activities. space for my full resume, in short I am the only candidate with When reliable engineering and other data are available, we should take steps to the legal training, knowledge and experience to do a good job protect the health and safety of all Texans. from day one. OTHER ISSUES: First, stabilize the agency by successfully completing the TRANS-PECOS PIPELINE: The Railroad Commission must Sunset Review.Second, continue crucial technology upgrades. Third, we must balance the rights of landowners and industry across Texas ight back against the Obama EPA’s irrational war on the Texas energy Industry. and not solely in regard to the Trans-Pecos pipeline. We must ensure that any EDUCATION: B.A. Economics (with Honors), UT Austin J.D. (with Honors), UT Austin development meets the proper standards and protects all Texans. PHONE: (512) 571-2016 | EMAIL: [email protected] URBAN DRILLING: All state agencies, including the Railroad Commission must WEBSITE: http://www.johngreytok.com This race is continued on the next page4 Voters Guide • 2016 Primary Election Edition 2 © 2016 League of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund • lwvtexas.org railroad coMMissionEr, continued RON HALE (R) BACKGROUND: Being a licensed professional engineer and is 12,000-15,000
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