Recommendations
Mary Williams will put the constituents of House District 128 first and focus on issues.
In his two terms representing House District 128, Rep. Briscoe Cain has quickly acquired a reputation well beyond being the most conservative lawmaker in the Texas House. He’s an elected official whose offensive posts earned him a suspension on Twitter. He was Texas Monthly’s Worst Legislator of 2017.
As a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, Cain has tweeted a threat to former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke with the warning “My AR is ready for you Robert Francis.” He trolled Stephen Hawking shortly after news of the acclaimed physicist’s death.
He introduced legislation to defund a state council that promotes palliative care for the terminally ill, conflating the specialized end-of-life services for dying patients with so-called “death panels.” He wastes his colleagues’ time on the House floor pushing severe abortion restrictions he knows won’t pass constitutional muster. He posed for the cameras while getting an illegal haircut as a stunt to pressure Gov. Greg Abbott to reopen hair salons and barbershops.
That kind of grandstanding in the chamber or social media chatter does nothing to benefit the people of House
District 128, which straddles the Houston Ship Channel and includes Pasadena, Deer Park, Baytown and Crosby.
They deserve better. They deserve a state representative who cares about the issues important to the district — air quality, chemical plant safety, education.
That is why we are recommending his challenger, Democrat Mary Williams, in the House District 128 race.
Williams, 67, who served in the Houston Police Department as a civilian for more than 23 years, is running on a pledge to put the residents of the district first. She supports a $15-an-hour minimum wage, better safety measures and environmental controls for chemical plants, and stricter regulations on assault weapons.
Williams will be in for a steep learning curve if elected, but it would be a refreshing change of pace for District 128 to have a representative whose mantra is “it’s about my district and my community, not about me.”