Election victors must govern for all Texans | Opinion
Texans once again aligned with the Republican Party this month by electing GOP candidates in every statewide office on the ballot and returning the party’s healthy majority to the Legislature. This was no surprise. Republicans have been winning statewide elections in Texas for the better part of 30 years.
I believe voters have sided strongly with Republicans in recent decades because they appreciate principles with which the party has traditionally been identified: limited government, fiscal restraint and local decision-making, among others. However, no political party has a monopoly on good ideas. While voters have stated their preference for Republican candidates, with governing comes a greater obligation to look beyond the last election — or the next one.
Since the last legislative session, for example, public schools have faced soaring costs for fuel and supplies, while teachers and other educators have faced sharp increases in housing costs. The shortage of fully certified teachers is a weight around our public school system and a crisis that transcends partisanship, just like the imperative to improve student safety and prevent mass shootings.
This may seem like an obvious formula for winning re-election in the next November general election. However, it must be remembered that the most powerful force in our political system is not the general-election contest between Republicans and Democrats every other November, but the Republican and Democratic primaries that occur every other March.
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