Election Day is just one week away for November’s midterm elections – and candidates are making their final appeals to voters across the state.
Democratic candidate for Texas Governor, Rep. Gina Hinojosa, is among them with a stop in Waco on Tuesday.
"I launched this campaign with this saying: no te dejes," she told the gathered crowd. "What it means is know your work and fight to defend it. And that is the kind of people Texans are."
Hinojosa has ran largely on the promise to strengthen Texas' public schools and increase affordability in the state.
"Our public schools are the gateway to the American dream," she said. "They provide the opportunity to reach the American dream. Our public schools tell every Texas child, "You can be anything you want to be if you work hard.""
On Monday, just a day before her Waco stop, a judge sided with Hinojosa after she sued for access to emails between Governor Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire business owner Elon Musk.
Reviewing those emails, she told KWBU after the rally, is part of her duties as a state legislator.
"Those are taxpayer dollars. I deserve to know what is happening, what those negotiations – those conversations have been looking like," she said, adding that redacting large portions of the emails was "highly suspicious."
Also key to her plan if elected, she said, refunding what she calls the "Greg Abbott corruption tax" with $1,500 payments to each Texas family, freezing electricity rates and removing tax on gas and diesel to lower prices at the pump.
Early voting runs through October 30th. Election Day is November 3rd.
