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Sameena supports full funding of our schools.

She believes in paying teachers for the

important work they do.

Texas ranks 46th in spending per student.

35th in teacher salaries.

Laubenberg cut school funding.

She voted against teacher raises.

Moderate Republicans have been driven out as the Tea Party pushes extreme anti-education policies.

Policies Laubenberg supports.

Bennett Ratliff, one such defeated Republican, recently said:

“We lost a lot of good public education supporters…

It does not bode well for public education in the

Texas House.”

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How can we afford to fund schools when our property taxes are already so high?

Republicans have shifted the tax burden from commercial to residential property.

The residential share of the total tax burden has increased from 42% in 1998 to over 50% today.

Costing Texas, and our schools, over $4Billion

in just the last 5 years.

They get the breaks: You pay the bills.

And our schools suffer.

Sameena will fight corruption and cronyism and restore tax fairness.

In Texas, women earn 79.1% of what men earn doing the same work.

Laubenberg opposed legislation requiring equal pay for women.

Sameena will fight for equal pay for women.

Laubenberg prohibited LGBT centers

at Texas universities*

* (unless they fund “Student Centers for Family and

Traditional Values”)

Hate is not a family value.

Sameena celebrates our District’s

diversity.

She will fight for equal rights and fair

treatment of all.

Laubenberg helps utilities delay pollution prevention

at coal fired power plants.

Sameena believes that clean energy investment is

good for the environment

and good for jobs!

Laubenberg voted against a bill to stop the gruesome practice of “finning” sharks off the Texas coast.

Sameena will protect our state’s natural

resources, including its wildlife and wild spaces.

Laubenberg voted to ban enforcement of federal firearm laws, including - background checks, - magazine capacity limits, and

- registration.

Sameena supports responsible gun ownership.

She believes that background checks are consistent with Second Amendment rights.

Laubenberg voted for a “Stand Your Ground” law

drafted by the NRA and ALEC.

(making Trayvon Martin-style “shoot, don’t avoid” the law of the land)

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Sameena agrees with police, who warn against

measures that encourage armed

“vigilantes.”

Laubenberg voted to deny health care to poor children,

but gave businesses tax breaks instead.

Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation.

Texas has more uninsured children than any other state.

Almost 1 in 5 Texans live in Poverty.

(0ver 1 in 4 children)

Sameena believes that good government must

reach out to lend a hand to those in need.

Laubenberg voted to block community outreach

- designed to make sure that the parents of poor children understood the health care

that Texas does provide.

You read that right:

Laubenberg voted to keep the parents of poor,

sick children from finding out about

available health care coverage

(!)

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Laubenberg opposes Medicaid expansion in Texas.

In Laubenberg’s Texas, attacking “Obamacare” is more important than

health care coverage

for 1.5 million Texans.

Grandstanding against the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, Laubenberg will cost us:

$8B per year in 2014/2015

$10B-$15B per year in 2016/2017

This isn’t “fiscal conservatism”, or “fiscal

responsibility”.

This is just wrong.

Sameena supports Medicaid expansion

under the ACA.

Sameena wants Texans to have healthcare coverage.

Coverage that we are already paying to fund.

Laubenberg and ALEC don’t just oppose the

ACA.

Laubenberg voted for an ALEC-sponsored “health care compact”

that would allow Texas to control (and deny) federal health care benefits to

children, veterans, the disabled, seniors, and the middle class!

Haven’t heard about this?

That’s because, to become effective, such compacts

require Federal approval.

If Republicans were to regain control of Congress and the Presidency,

Laubenberg might control Medicare,

Medicaid and disbursements from

other federal programs.

This model ALEC legislation was drafted by …

Ted CruzWhile he worked to shut down federal health care reform for

the Texas Public Policy

Foundation

Cruz moved on to the Senate, and

shut down our government.

ALEC took his health care compact and hopes to shut down federal health care.

Like ALEC, the TPPF continues to work against:

healthcare, public schools, andthe environment.

Its largest corporate funder is Koch Industries Inc.

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Laubenberg opposed a ban on smoking in public places.

Laubenberg voted against a ban on texting while driving.

Laubenberg voted against warning pregnant women about high levels of mercury in fish.

Laubenberg sits on the Texas House Committee

on Public Health.

!

Sameena believes in protecting public health.

She will fight to ensure that our laws and regulations provide that protection.

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Mayor states plant is “in compliance with state

regulations.”

When prison doctors pleaded for a bill to allow them to provide critical vaccinations to imprisoned teens:

Laubenberg voted to block it.

These are not Texas Values.

These are not Sameena’s Values.

These are not Your Values.

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Laubenberg supported a Texas version of

Arizona’s infamous anti-immigrant law.

(even when law enforcement and business groups argued

against it)

Sameena will oppose laws which target or

profile Hispanics and other minorities.

ALEC is responsible for pushing such laws into statehouse after statehouse, including Texas.

ALEC is a non-public, secretive bill-mill that pushes corporate and right-wing interests behind closed doors.

Laubenberg is the Texas State Chair of ALEC,

and follows their orders.

Laubenberg is the Texas State Chair of ALEC.

She works for ALEC, not for you.

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Sameena believes in government

Of the peopleBy the people, &For the people.

Laubenberg made voting more difficult.

Lacking a birth certificate and with her driver’s license expired, 92-year old Ruby Barber was turned away at

the polls.

“I’ve voted all my life, and not being able to vote – it just breaks

my heart.”

Ruby fought past Laubenberg’s barriers,

and plans to be ready to cast a ballot in the 2016 Presidential

election, “especially when Hillary runs.”

Sameena will open doors to citizen

involvement so each of us can help make our

government work better.

What can you do once you learn that your state representative is trying

to

Suppress YOUR Vote?

Vote her out!

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Laubenberg voted to cut school funding and block pay raises for teachers,

but to “protect” the expression of religious beliefs in schools.

Sameena agrees with our Founding Fathers:

Freedom of Religion requires the Separation of Church

and State.

Sameena believes in infrastructure investment

to help Texas businesses grow and create new jobs.

Laubenberg hurt small Texas businesses and worsened the revenue crisis

by opposing internet sales taxes on out-of-state companies.

Laubenberg Has Run Unopposed Election after

Election

Laubenberg opposed term limits

and voted for redistricting plans that protect incumbents from

challenge.

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Sameena believes in helping those in our community who are

suffering and in need.

Laubenberg voted for mandatory drug testing of welfare recipients

– limiting access to help for those who truly need it.

Laubenberg sponsored HB2

closing women’s health

clinics across Texas.

Sameena believes in freedom of choice

She will oppose government intrusion into matters that are

personal and private.

Laubenberg and ALEC oppose increases to the minimum wage.

Sameena supports an increase in the minimum wage.

A full time worker should not face a

lifetime of poverty.

Corruption and cronyism: CPRIT

When Rick Perry needed to quietly defund the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas as public awareness of this multi-million dollar scandal began to grow,

who did he turn to?

Who else?

Jodie Laubenberg

Tea Party candidates swept the recent

Republican primaries.

If elected, they will join Laubenberg

to promote her right wing, anti-government,

ALEC-sponsored agenda.

They promise more guns (including in your child’s classroom).

Laubenberg voted to arm school marshals,

while cutting school funding.

They incite baseless fears

(often with racial and ethnic undertones), and

divert government revenues to corporate

cronies, while

undermining our government.

They believe in guns, not in the people of

Texas.

Sameena believes in families,

and in the strength and shared values of the

people of Texas.

Sameena knows what

Texas Needs

Great public schools.

Affordable, quality public colleges and

universities.

A safe and clean environment.

Economic Security

Affordable healthcareEqual pay for womenA Living Wage

Economic Opportunity

Investment in infrastructure

Investment in clean energyInvestment in education Tax Fairness

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