Women In Congress
0 %of 535 seats
0 %of 535 seats
It is the role of government to deal with factors that abuse the vulnerable or undermine free-will placing all of us under dictatorship.
Isn’t this far too extreme?
Ruth is a woman of faith that values life, God given free-will and the personal rights promised in our Constitution. Ruth personally understand the joys of motherhood as well as the challenges women in poverty, domestic violence or trapped in human trafficking face. Ruth also personally knows the impact abortion and miscarriages have on women as well as the challenges working women have during and after pregnancies and in child support enforcement. That’s why Ruth will represent women’s rights to have full control of the decisions affecting their own body including:
This results in more women struggling paying rent instead of owning a home, the inability to afford health care and other significant inequality factors reducing quality of life. Who writes the laws matter. That’s why Ruth will work for legislation to reduce the gender wage gap as well as improve representation in business and government.
Ruth was a foster kid and understands the failures of the system first hand. Ruth will work for bi-partisan legislation that addresses our broken foster care system with more resources for parents and family members to raise kids in safe and healthy environments, reduce barriers to adoption and increase government accountability to make sure all our children have lives worth living not merely surviving.
Ruth understands the value of a quality education. As a 10th grade drop-out Ruth realized getting her education was necessary to be able to take care of her daughter. Ruth earned a bachelor’s degree at Dallas Community College and Dallas Baptist University and then a Master’s Degree in International Management. Ruth has also worked as a K-12 substitute teacher and a college business professor which gives her added perspective.
Just imagine if you lived in a small town with many family owned businesses for decades. If a “Big Box” store comes in, it would quickly shut down all those family owned businesses unable to compete. Then the Big Box can raise prices because there is no competition. If they decide to leave, it would create a food and services desert that would take a lot of resources and time to reestablish. That’s just one of the many dangers of charter schools and voucher programs. They eliminate existing school systems and the school building and land will be sold off for cheap to become anything in our community destroying all infrastructure while taxpayer money is paying for private land via charter schools and vouchers, which would also potentially eliminate the majority of our voting locations.
This agenda is motivated by GREED and FEAR of majority-minority population to return us to a separate and unequal society, reversing the integration required in Brown v. Board of Education. Please see Ruth’s comparison chart HERE to see the facts.
The lie being told is charters and vouchers are about “parental choice” and to stop “woke” indoctrination when it is UNINFORMED choice because parents do not even consider to ask if teachers are certified and these “schools” have no performance accountability.
Republicans have been controlling everything taught in schools and how schools operate for 30 years in Texas. Out of 50 states, we are ranked 42 in education attainment, 44th in funding, with the state spending only 3.45% of its economic capacity of K-12 public schools and holding increases in teacher pay hostage to privatize public education.
Vouchers are tax-payer dollars for private businesses giving welfare to the wealthy whose children have never been in public school, trillions of dollars $ in public land becoming privately owned and private businesses issuing billions in taxpayer funded no bid contracts every year in every county with private businesses kicking money back to politicians robbing our children of their future.
Our kids are more than “Backpacks Full of Cash”.
Ruth will work for bi-partisan legislation for an accountable public education system that produces an equipped workforce with:
Ruth is part Hispanic, specifically her father is black born in a US territory, Puerto Rico and her mom was a white country girl from Kentucky. However, please do not assume that means she supports an “Open Border”, that is not the case.
Crime and tragedies happen everyday, which is why we must work together to secure our border with solutions for immigration reform, instead of blocking laws that solve problems so they complain about how bad it is. We need balanced solutions, not extremes of open borders with expensive chaos nor inhumane or unconstitutional treatment.
Migrants are NOT driving up crime rates. These lies are being told so Americans are afraid and see migrants as enemies which affects how we vote. The FACTS are:
Don’t you think if the prior administration is re-elected migrant murders will be applauded, especially when it has promised the greatest deportation in history ripping apart families and taking workers out of the economy to work camps will begin on inauguration day?
Do you think the Texas Governor spending over $148 million in taxpayer dollars and counting for buses is just for political theatre and campaign kickback? Or is he building process and infrastructure to take people they don’t like to workcamps? Imagine the impact on children, families, businesses, our economy, lawsuits and instability such a massive, ill-planned sudden removal of the workforce this action would cause.
Ruth and her family is multi-racial. Ruth’s mother was a white country girl from rural Kentucky who worked as a nurses aid and in the school cafeteria. Ruth lost her mom to Diabetes complications in 2022. Ruth’s father is a black Puerto Rican who worked at a steel mill, laid the streets of Chicago and had a food truck. For some, Ruth is not black, Hispanic or white enough. Ruth likes to say she is like coffee with milk. Ruth embraces all of who she is and agrees her blood is poison against the shameful hypocrisy of Christian Nationalism.
As a woman of faith, Ruth sees the great hypocrisy of Christian Nationalism being used is directly contrary to every Biblical principle. ‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:33-34
Ruth opposes dehumanizing, fear mongering enforcement-only immigration policies & separating migrant families. Ruth will WORK for bi-partisan SOLUTIONS that have been blocked by Lance Gooden and all those working against our best interests:
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Covid should have taught us how interconnected every country and economy is. Something that happens on the other side of the
world can seem far away but the repercussions reach us and our economy. The wars happening right now around
the world threaten to put our sons and daughters serving in the military into battle and bring those fights to our doors.
Wouldn’t it be wise to consider the fact Russia can see our backyards too? And the risks posed by those that want to harm US interests?
Ruth will work for bipartisan support for legislation that is wise with taxpayer dollars, supports Ukraine, honors our commitment to NATO and our allies fighting for their lives. If we fail to do so, don’t you think that stone is going to roll back on us?
Israel is due safety, return of their hostages and justice. The civilians and children of Gaza are equally due a ceasefire, safety and
quality of life. There is no justification for the mass suffering and killing of innocent civilians; that’s not acceptable collateral damage.
District 5 deserves a representative that will demand accountability in government spending, both in domestic and foreign affairs.
We need to better prepare our military and their families with the mental health support they need before, during and after service as well as better serve veteran needs when they end active duty for workforce transition, entrepreneurship opportunities and affordable housing. Veterans need automatic enrollment and evaluations for healthcare with simplified processes. Veterans who are eligible for social security or VA disability benefits should not have medical coverage costs. Additionally, we must bring back honorably discharged veterans that have been deported.
Ruth is committed to SERVE, working and compromising for results that protect and provide for the people of District 5.
Government officials should not be allowed to abuse their authority for campaign kickbacks, insider stock trades or violate laws that taxpayers have to pay for. No one should be above the law, especially those who write laws!
Together we can reform our government with voter rights and campaign reform, opposing gerrymandered maps and policies that reduce the voices of voters, including supporting the Freedom to Vote / John R. Lewis Act and For the People Act to protect the Voting Rights Act and STOP the sale of laws by Judas Politicians, those elected or appointed to work for us but instead sell us out for their own profit.
Ruth personally uncovered and reported government corruption to enforcement agencies and has been fighting in court actions since 2016 as local and state officials violated state and federal laws to rob workers at DFW airport of wages and benefits. Ruth has experienced the retaliation of being a whistleblower trying to hold government officials accountable to comply with the law. She realized the level of corruption and many political games used to control and disenfranchise voters for the purpose of power and greed. That’s why Ruth will work for increased protections for whistleblowers and legislation that ensures accountability in government so that every vote counts at an equal value.
Will you rise in unity to VOTE, to shore up the purpose and integrity of every branch of our government preventing it from being chopped down and sold to the highest bidder? To stop the 1% from buying seats for Judas Politicians, elected to protect us but instead selling the 99% of us out for their own profit?
Will you VOTE for a government that works for the people with balanced solutions and reforms – to require our constitutions contractual obligation to equally provide each of us life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Your VOTE builds a future where every voice is heard, every person is valued and every vote counts for an accountable government by the people, for the people of District 5, for Texas and for a United States of America.
Ruth is a business owner, former business professor, she was an executive with a grocery retailer and an HR Consultant for businesses. Ruth understands the need for businesses to employ workers, meet consumer needs and fuel our economy.
District 5 is experiencing historic and explosive growth which requires infrastructure resources for streets, water & sewer, first responders, parks, public transportation, development that needs to happen financially wise to pro-actively build with the future and environment in mind.
All of us in District 5 feel the impact of prices for our groceries, cost of housing, insurance and increasing debt while businesses are making strong profits and CEO pay is reaching over 324X’s more than front line worker pay.
Ruth will work to control inflation and help district 5 families afford groceries & living expenses by:
Ruth knows far too many people in District 5 lack access to affordable medical care. That makes us all vulnerable to infectious illnesses, affects our ability to work and provide for our kids, allows illness to get worse and more expensive since we wait too long because of lack of medical insurance.
We need major changes in our health care system so we have more access that is affordable so we are healthier. The privatization of our medical systems has focused more on profits than quality care and reduced facility capacity, especially in our rural communities. We have to get creative and design programs and access to providers using mobile care units and the internet, which is why President Biden’s infrastructure bill is so critical. It won’t solve all medical issues, but it will allow people to have internet virtual visits with doctors.
Ruth will work for:
Redlining is a discriminatory practice that impacts where and how much people pay for housing and creates concentrations of poverty and crime. Although illegal these issues still exist with banks and developers reaping billions in tax benefits ever year while violating federal law, which has now been overhauled under the Biden administration and banks really don’t like the accountability so expect banks and real estate developers to support candidates like Lance Gooden that won’t require accountability and will allow consumers to be robbed of the American Dream of home ownership.
Ruth will work for bi-partisan support:
2023 saw significant gains for worker rights, but there is still much to be done. As a Human Resource Consultant, Ruth knows that after being hired, most people only interact with HR when they are in trouble or fired. Ruth is an advocate for worker rights with 25+ years of experience as a strategic problem solver and change agent addressing root issues for the mutual benefit of workers and businesses.
That’s why Ruth:
Texas in-prison death rate is 30x the national average due to many prisons not having air conditioning.
While Ruth hates the skunk smell of Marijuana and has never used it, marijuana does have some medical benefits and we have locked up millions of people wasting trillions of dollars by criminalizing marijuana whose health impact is no worse than alcohol.
Ruth will work to address the root issues driving crime rates: poverty, lack of quality education, cyclical barriers that fuel repeat offenses with a restorative approach to reduce recidivism including:
The US has the 28th highest rate of gun deaths in the world and among high-income countries with over 10M, the US is almost triple the next closest rate?
The gun industry has special protections that other businesses don’t have to shield them from lawsuits by those they bought seats for- Judas politicians selling us out for their own profit while Americans die.
Responsible, law-abiding Texans can enjoy 2nd Amendment rights while we also take common-sense steps to protect our kids, save lives, ensure law enforcement can easily identify who the “bad guy” is and prevent those experiencing a mental health crisis from having access to firearms – steps that will have no effect on responsible gun owners.
We need common-sense safe storage laws for firearms so that young children aren’t able to accidentally injure or kill themselves or their siblings, and preventing criminals from stealing them for use in violent crimes.
We MUST protect our kid’s right to life by removing gun industry protections and ensure only those training, mentally capable and eligible have access to weapons.
That’s why Ruth will work for bi-partisan legislation for:
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