Her district is well served by her leadership on bipartisan bills and by her community...
a bill through the Republican-led House that allowed ethnic studies courses to count toward high school students’ graduation requirements. That measure died in the Senate. Morales, 54, says there is more that she wants to accomplish.
Morales’ roots in Second Ward are deep. Her grandparents opened a funeral home there that Morales runs today, having taken over at age 23 after the death of her grandmother and, eight years earlier, her parents. Her community engagement includes having led an annual donation drive for school supplies and hosting dental, eye and hair-care services for children. During the height of the pandemic, she co-hosted food drives for struggling families.
In our conversations with both candidates, Mabry seemed to us more interested in airing his frustrations with the Democratic leadership in Houston and Harris County rather than communicating how he would work alongside a likely continued statewide Republican majority to address crime from a statewide vantage point. He did close with a comment we appreciated: “Democrats and Republicans do not have to hate each other.
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