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Garnet Coleman is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 147. Coleman was first elected to the chamber in 1991. Coleman is running for re-election in 2018. The primary election took place on March 6, 2018. The general election is being held on November 6, 2018.
Coleman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Apartments for America, Inc. He also owns Coleman Strategies, and is a shareholder in Peacole Ice Cream.
Coleman is a sustaining member of the Harris County Democratic Party and the Texas Democratic Party. He was the field director for the Clinton/Gore 1992 campaign in Harris County. He was a Delegate to the 1992 Democratic National Convention, a Precinct Chair for the 1990 Democratic Precinct Convention, and a Delegate at the 1998 State Democratic Convention.
Former Member, Calendars Committee, Texas State House of Representatives
Former Member, Federal Economic Stabilization Funding, Texas State House of Representatives
Chair, Legislative Study Group
Chair Emeritus, Texas Legislative Black Caucus
Board Member, Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, present
Sustaining Member, Harris County Democratic Party, present
Chair, Legislative Study Group, present
Board Member, Midtown Re-development Authority, present
Member, State Legislators for Health Reform, present
Sustaining Member, Texas Democratic Party, present
Chair Emeritus, Texas Legislative Black Caucus, present
Former Member, Calendars Committee, Texas State House of Representatives
Former Member, Federal Economic Stabilization Funding, Texas State House of Representatives
Chair, County Affairs Committee
Member, Public Health Committee
— Awards:
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- X
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- X
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Greatly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Slightly Increase
4. Environment
- Slightly Increase
5. Health care
- Greatly Increase
6. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase
8. Welfare
- Maintain Status
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- No Answer
2. Capital gains taxes
- No Answer
3. Cigarette taxes
- No Answer
4. Corporate taxes
- No Answer
5. Gasoline taxes
- No Answer
6. Sales taxes
- No Answer
7. Vehicle taxes
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
9. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Yes
10. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- Yes
11. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- Yes
12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Texas governors?
- No
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Texas state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- Yes
2. PAC
- Yes
3. Corporate
- Yes
4. Political Parties
- Yes
5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Yes
7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
8. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Texas are closed?
- Yes
9. Should Texas recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
10. Should the governor, rather than local authorities, be in charge of ordering emergency evacuations?
- No
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in Texas.
- X
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- No Answer
5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer
8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
9. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- X
10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
11. Increase state funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent or respond to terrorism.
- X
12. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
- No Answer
13. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- X
14. Other or expanded principles
- moratorium on Death Penalty
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer
2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X
5. Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X
6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- No Answer
7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X
8. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer
9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- X
11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
14. Allow undocumented immigrant high school graduates to pay in-state tuition at Texas public universities.
- X
15. Support Texas' school funding equalization system (share-the-wealth).
- X
16. How would you propose to reform Texas' school funding system? Please use forty (40) words or less.
- The Hochberg Plan
17. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X
6. Include sexual orientation in Texas' anti-discrimination laws.
- X
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Public employment
- Yes
2. State college and university admissions
- Yes
3. State contracting
- Yes
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- X
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
4. Increase funding for improvements to Texas' power generating and transmission facilities.
- No Answer
5. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer
5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X
6. Require a license for gun possession.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Texas should continue to use the private contractor Accenture to process Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) applications.
- No Answer
3. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer
4. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
5. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- X
6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Texas.
- No Answer
8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- No Answer
2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- No Answer
4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X
6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- Reduce # uninsured through Federal Waiver/Eliminate Texas Ewter Price Fund, Improve Public Education/Hochberg Plan Redistribute tax cut
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