TEXAS RECOMMENDATION; Lupe Valdez – Governor – Texas
Your next Governor of Texas - Dedicated to defending Texans
Meet Lupe:
Your next Governor of Texas. Sheriff. Veteran. Daughter of migrant farmworkers. Dedicated to defending Texans.
In 2004, Lupe Valdez, the 2018 Democratic Nominee for Texas Governor, shook the political establishment in Dallas County, becoming one of the first Democrats elected countywide in many years. Lupe was ultimately elected to four terms as Sheriff of Texas’ 2nd largest county and served from 2005-2017. She was the only Latina Sheriff in the United States and one of very few LGBTQ Americans serving in public office.
Prior to becoming Sheriff, Lupe worked to protect the lives and property of American citizens at home and abroad as a captain in the U.S. Army National Guard and as a federal agent. The daughter of migrant farmworkers and the youngest child in a family of ten -- Lupe learned the value of a strong work ethic and the opportunity that comes with education. Educate to elevate are words she has lived by. She put herself through college to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Southern Nazarene University, sometimes working two jobs to pay for her education. Later, while working as a federal agent, she completed her Master’s in Criminology from UT-Arlington.
As a federal agent and sometimes undercover, Lupe investigated fraud and abuse in the United States and money laundering from criminal organizations in South America.
While Sheriff, Valdez worked diligently to address deep structural problems that had developed over the preceding 20 years. The county jail system, the 7th largest in the nation, was understaffed, overpopulated, and unsanitary. With her team, she succeeded in tackling many of the challenges that had plagued the Department such as improving the quality of care for mentally ill inmates, changing culture, and striving to ensure any individual touched by the criminal justice system was treated with respect and dignity.
On May 22, 2018 she won the Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Primary and became the first openly LGBTQ Latina major party nominee for a statewide office in Texas and the United States and the first Latina nominee for Governor of Texas.
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