Rep. Sarah Davis will be the featured speaker at next week’s meeting of the Greater Houston Pachyderm Club. Check it out:
Greater Houston Pachyderm Club
Join us for our weekly meeting,
Tuesday, November 20, 2018Rep. Sarah Davis
Texas House of RepresentativesJoin the Greater Houston Pachyderm Club as we welcome Representative Sarah Davis of the Texas House of Representatives. Rep. Davis was first elected to the Texas House in 2010 and is serving her fourth term representing District 134.
Rep. Davis is Chair of the General Investigating and Ethics Committee and Chair of the Appropriations Sub-Committee on Health and Human Services. She also serves the Corrections Committee and the Calendars Committees.
Rep. Davis served as the budget conferee for the Health and Human Services article of the budget for the 2016-2017 and 2018-2019 budget cycles. She has served as the Secretary of the Women’s Health Caucus for multiple consecutive sessions and also serves as the Speaker’s appointee to the Texas Access to Justice Commission. She was just recently named to the Select Committee to Study Economic Competitiveness and the Appropriations Sub-Committee on Hurricane Harvey Resources and Recovery.
Rep. Davis is a defense attorney with the national law firm of Wilson Elser. She received her bachelor´s degree from Baylor University and law degree from the University of Houston.
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Harris County is (at best) purple. It seems appropriate to learn how Republicans can win in Harris County from someone that has actually done it, no? I mean, Rep. Davis actually won in a blue district. I’d think that anyone who thinks that they are a player in the county would be there.
Wouldn’t you? Assuming, of course, that you actually want Republicans to win in Harris County.
I would say it’s more purple than red or blue. Prior to Sarah Davis, we had Democrat Ellen Cohen. This area was also part of Republican Anne Clutterbuck’s City Council District. I also recall that Senator Cruz won this district.
I meant Senator Cruz won this district in a previous primary election, against David Dewhurst, I don’t know about this year’s election against Beto.
Harris County is blue and Sarah Davis wins because she is a liberal Republican. If conservatives want to win again or at least Republicans, they need to work on messaging and outreach – not changing their values to get elected which is what I imagine her message will be since she bashes the party she claims to be a part of every chance she gets.
Geez-this right here: I imagine.
You really think that R’s can be win with your agenda?
There are numerous reasons why the republicans lost Harris County in this last election. Not having the pro-abortion agenda of Sara Davis is way down the list.
Doesn’t do much to win as a Republican who votes as a Democrat.
Rep. Sarah Davis lives and works very much in her district with her voters. She attended and nurtured those that sought out her office, that is why she won with the cross overs at the top of the voting layout. I have lots of friends that lives in her district are teachers…they love her.
Other Republican races decided that being out of distrcit in DC and at times coming back home to visit their immediate family and stay away fron their voters was OK.
The Republican in the House from Texas did nothing, pass nothing that they could boast on. Now they can sit home and wonder what can the do in come January and find work. They will have to worry about (i hope) how to pay into social security, how to find a job where they can receive a good medical benefit plan, and deal with it and reflex at times what their job should have been geared to in DC for Texas.
“Other Republican races decided that being out of distrcit in DC and at times coming back home to visit their immediate family and stay away fron their voters was OK.”
Amen. Culberson and Huffman have been virtually invisible in the Houston parts of their districts for years. Couldn’t be very surprised that Culberson lost and Huffman came extremely close to losing.
So Sarah Davis has figured out how to survive in a blue district by becoming aligned with the Democrats agenda of abortion, gay marriage, etc. Big deal! While I acknowledge that it is better to have an R there rather than a D, it is not something I would celebrate or hold up as a model of electoral success. I suspect that most Democrats in Democrat districts will want to be represented by a Democrat. I believe that Rep. Davis holds on to her seat because of the personal relationships and hard work she does in her district. However, the true contest is not over which party holds any particular office but rather are able to change the minds of everyday Texans to support our principles and values. If the people believe that abortion is a woman’s “choice” and not murder, then we will not win those elections. Same is true for traditional marriage, a secure border, and the rule of law. We should not run around figuring out how to win in blue districts, but rather how do we message and educate the electorate into supporting the traditional values and principles that a true conservative Republican can run on. Do not for a minute think that if we act more like the other guys that we will win more. While we could pick up an office or two, the damage to the base would be catastrophic if the abandonment of principle and values were to rule the day in the Republican Party just so they could claim an “R”. In order to win, we need better candidates with clearer messages. The example Dan Crenshaw has set before the national media should offer the Republican Party a clearer direction than Sarah Davis.
I lived 22 years in that district and it is a pretty unique one vote wise. It always competed with a district in Kingwood and an occasional surge from River Oaks to be the highest turnout precinct and it just about always broke right down the middle party wise. I can’t remember the milquetoasts we had but I recall there was a nephew of Lloyd Benson in there and another dem that always focused on robinhood school funding junk. The repubs were always liberal and dems were always liberal so it pretty much matches national politics at the leadership level.
Once I got the kids schooled and out of the house I got out of there to get away from the infernal appraisal cap that never ceased.