Kevin Nelson
for
Texas State Senate
District Five
There’s a lot I love about Texas, but not about the state legislature and its antics. That’s why I decided that this year I would stand up for what I believe in by making a run myself. If you support the changes I’m working for, I would be honored if you consider letting me represent you in the state senate.
Texas can’t abolish ICE, but we can stop cooperating with it.
We all know how ICE has gone out of control under the Trump Administration. What it has done in public is horrific enough; what it is doing behind closed doors is just as bad. An agency that is supposed to be protecting people is harassing and terrorizing them instead. The United States of America should not be a country where masked men roam the streets and demand papers from anyone they think looks different. We should not be a country where citizens are kept locked up in defiance of court orders, where detainees are beaten, where children are torn from their parents and kept in cages. We should not be a country where protestors are gunned down just for standing in the way.
What Texas can do is to stop cooperating. We can stop giving information to ICE, and we can stop having state and local law enforcement work for them. If elected, I will work to make that happen.
I am also 100% committed to restoring a woman’s right to choose.
The state legislature has enacted some of the most extreme anti-choice laws anywhere. I will work to get those laws repealed in their entirety. Texas women should be free to make one of the most personal of all decisions without anyone else trying to make it for them. I believe the majority of Texans would vote for restoration of that right, and I will work for an amendment to the state constitution that guarantees it for the future.
Texans who work hard every single day shouldn't be asked to get by on $7.25 an hour.
Like most people, I've about had it with the legislature's absurd redistricting dance.
No one should be afraid of financial ruin just from going to the doctor.
I grew up in Lubbock, where my father was a professor at Texas Tech. My family moved to central Texas in 1988, which I’ve called home ever since. I am a proud Aggie who graduated from Texas A&M with a physics degree in 1993, followed by a master’s degree in 1995.
I then stayed in central Texas for several years and worked at various jobs in educational technology and publishing. In 2008, I went off to California for graduate school at Stanford. After receiving a PhD in philosophy in 2014, I was more than happy to come back to Texas.
I am Hispanic on my mother’s side, and I am extremely proud to have had relatives on both sides of my family who served in the U.S. armed forces going back to World War I. When citizens of our country are living in fear of being targeted and even having their citizenship revoked, it’s personal to me. I would be honored to work in whatever way I can for a better Texas and a better America, where every one of us can feel proud to belong.
