I am running in the 2026 election as the Green Party candidate for Texas Lieutenant Governor. The Texas Election Code makes it a requirement that the Green Party have candidates for state-wide offices in order to maintain ballot access for Green Party candidates. Next time I will likely be a Green Party candidate for a local office in my area, such as State Representative or County Commissioner's Court.
I received my Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1986. Most recently, I was a high school math teacher at Jefferson High School in San Antonio. I left that position to move to the Lindale area of east Texas, where I live presently.
This site began as the website for my 2016 candidacy for Congress. I ran for U.S. Representative for the 24th District as a Green Party candidate. It was educational, as I learned firsthand how completely the political system is controlled by and for the very few. I think we are all comming to understand this better.
The main purpose of the 2016 campaign was to give more visibility to the reasons for our predicament and more visibility to possible solutions. What I realize ever more clearly is the system(s) themselves — monetary system, duopoly electoral system, agriculture system, transportation system, military system — cannot cope with alternative or competing ideas. I suppose any social heirarchy must ruthlessly eliminate competition to preserve itself. So the reformers are relegated to the fringe of social awareness. Yet, when the ruling class structures break and fall, when the light shines on alternatives, the reformers who have put forth ideas will have a chance.
Acacia farnesiana, better known as the huisache tree, is a small thorny tree that is probably native to the more arid regions of Central America and the Southwest United States. It tends to sprout in multiple spindly trunks that have rather long and sharp thorns. it takes more of a tree form as it matures and can be pruned to an attractive shape. It has yellow orange flowers in the spring and produces seed pods as is characteristic of the legume family. Learn more at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center where it is known as vachellia farnesiana.
I chose this mascot because I feel it is representative of the probable future for a Texan in the 21st century. I seriously considered choosing the honey mesquite tree since it is regarded as more attractive and useful, but the scientific name, prosopis glandulosa, just doesn't work as a website title. Now that I am living in east Texas, the thought of the shortleaf pine, pinus echinata, has become more appealing.
Texas is becomming more and more a car-park colony of Wall Street. I have a morbid fascination with the methods and memes of this progression, and a strong desire to find another way. The ruling class proudly points to enormous highway monuments and wide strips of concrete, while hiding the costs and pretending to be mystified by rising taxes. Texas is a leader in greenhouse gas emissions and climate change denial seems to be the official religion. The grip of fossil fuels and the banking cartel is strong, but their system is brittle and vulnerable. Perhaps there will be an enormously great traffic jam that finally brings the realization that we could do better.
I am also quite interested in the agriculture practices of Texas. The agricultural sector is a major user of chemicals, but I am not sure when the last good harvest occurred. It seems it is either too flooded or too dry or too hot for optimal chemical doused genetically modified conditions. I have found the information to be mostly unavailable, which has prevented me from exploring this very important topic.
We are told the cost of climate adaptation is too high, but what is the cost of denial? The drought emergency declaration has been renewed for the fourth straight year. The 2024 Smokehouse Creek Fire was the largest in Texas recorded history. And then there is the still ongoing recovery from hurricane Harvey (15.8MB pdf file). Will Houston ever recover, or will there just be unmentioned sacrifice zones?
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