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Donate Today Take Action Now Choose Change!. Sameena supports full funding of our schools. She believes in paying teachers for the important work they do. . Texas ranks 46 th in spending per student. 35 th in teacher salaries. Laubenberg cut school funding.

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Donate Today Take Action Now Choose Change!

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  1. Donate Today Take Action Now Choose Change!

  2. Sameena supports full funding of our schools. She believes in paying teachers for the important work they do.

  3. Texas ranks 46th in spending per student. 35th in teacher salaries.

  4. Laubenbergcut school funding. She voted against teacher raises.

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

  6. 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.”

  7. Volunteer Today Donate Today Choose Change!

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

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

  10. 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.

  11. They get the breaks: You pay the bills. And our schools suffer.

  12. Sameena will fight corruption and cronyism and restore tax fairness.

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

  14. Laubenberg opposed legislation requiring equal pay for women.

  15. Sameena will fight for equal pay for women.

  16. Laubenberg prohibited LGBT centers at Texas universities* * (unless they fund “Student Centers for Family and Traditional Values”)

  17. Hate is not a family value.

  18. Sameenacelebrates our District’s diversity.She will fight for equal rights and fair treatment of all.

  19. Laubenberg helps utilities delay pollution prevention at coal fired power plants.

  20. Sameena believes that clean energy investment is good for the environment and good for jobs!

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

  22. Sameena will protect our state’s natural resources, including its wildlife and wild spaces.

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

  24. Sameena supports responsible gun ownership. She believes that background checks are consistent with Second Amendment rights.

  25. 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)

  26. Laubenberg Supporters

  27. Sameena agrees with police, who warn against measures that encourage armed “vigilantes.”

  28. Laubenberg voted to deny health care to poor children, but gave businesses tax breaks instead.

  29. 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)

  30. Sameena believes that good government must reach out to lend a hand to those in need.

  31. Laubenberg voted to block community outreach - designed to make sure that the parents of poor children understood the health care that Texas does provide.

  32. You read that right: Laubenberg voted to keep the parents of poor, sick children from finding out about available health care coverage (!)

  33. Donate Today Take Action Now Choose Change!

  34. Laubenbergopposes Medicaid expansion in Texas.

  35. In Laubenberg’s Texas, attacking “Obamacare” is more important than health care coverage for 1.5 million Texans.

  36. Grandstanding against the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, Laubenberg will cost us: $8B per year in 2014/2015 $10B-$15B per year in 2016/2017

  37. This isn’t “fiscal conservatism”, or “fiscal responsibility”. This is just wrong.

  38. Sameena supports Medicaid expansion under the ACA.

  39. Sameena wants Texans to have healthcare coverage. Coverage that we are already paying to fund.

  40. Laubenberg and ALEC don’t just oppose the ACA.

  41. 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!

  42. Haven’t heard about this? That’s because, to become effective, such compacts require Federal approval.

  43. If Republicans were to regain control of Congress and the Presidency, Laubenberg might control Medicare, Medicaid and disbursements from other federal programs.

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