Government--our government, both federal and state, are far too expansive and over-reaching.  Government should exist only to provide for state and national defense.  It is not to take sides in lobbying for issues, it is not to deny certain groups natural rights while increasing those rights for others, and it is certainly not to financially support individuals nor corporations.   I vow to reduce the size of the Texas government.  For example, in the State Health Services Department, I would seek to eliminate everything with the exception of WIC.  I would eliminate the Texas Homeland Security agency because it has more power than what the citizens of this state would like it to have.  To make it easier to see, I would eliminate most of the following or greatly reduce its size:
Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
Texas Healthcare Information Council
Health and Human Services Commission--"The baseline request for the upcoming biennium totals $48.8 billion."  --from their website http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/.
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Department of Information Resources
Department of Economic Development--most cities already have these in place; why have it on a larger scale?


It is generally agreed that the most important single function of government is to secure the rights and freedoms of individual citizens.  Returning to this principle will reduce the tax burden, create jobs in the private sector, encourage competition (which will drive costs down), and encourage funding by the private sector as well.

As John Locke explained many years ago:
      “The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others, which cannot be where there is no law; and is not, as we are told, ‘a liberty for every man to do what he lists.’ For who could be free, when every other man’s humour might domineer over him? But a liberty to dispose and order freely as he lists his person, actions, possessions, and his whole property within the allowance of those laws under which he is, and therein not to be subject to the arbitrary will of another, but freely follow his own.” (Two Treatises of Civil Government, II, 57: P>P>N>S., p.101) (from Ezra Taft Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture).

Government should not be intruding into our lives.  Most people have not given their consent to have their rights violated, and big government does just this.  I will work to make it smaller.

Again, as Gary Johnson has said, elect me for a term.  If you don't like what you see, vote again next time for more tyranny.