Platform • Standing positions
What I will fight for, and how I would actually do it.
Positions are cheap. Anyone can be against high taxes and for clean water. What follows is the mechanism, because the mechanism is where legislation lives or dies and because a candidate who cannot describe one has not read the bill.
01 • Hemp and THC
End the whiplash. Write one clear law.
In 2019, HB 1325 legalized hemp and an industry grew to thousands of licensed retailers. In 2025, SB 3 passed both chambers and was vetoed. Two special sessions failed. Executive Order GA-56 pushed regulation to agencies. New DSHS rules took effect March 31, 2026 and were immediately litigated. On July 31, 2026, delta-8, delta-10, and THCP became Schedule I controlled substances overnight. A federal redefinition of hemp takes effect November 12, 2026.
Seven years. Five mechanisms. Not one stable answer. Business owners cannot plan inventory. Veterans cannot plan treatment. Law enforcement cannot plan enforcement. Everyone loses except the lawyers.
What I would push for
- One statute passed by the Legislature in open session, not an agency rule reversible by executive order
- Age gating at 21 with real ID verification, child-resistant packaging, and criminal penalties for selling to minors
- Mandatory batch testing with published certificates of analysis enforced against manufacturers, not retail clerks
- A defined compliance transition date so legally purchased inventory does not become criminal overnight
- Protection for agricultural and industrial hemp: fiber, seed, and grain are a separate issue from the intoxicating products debate
Texans deserve to know what is legal on a Monday and still know it on a Friday.
02 • Water
Stop engineering our rainfall into the Gulf.
East Texas reservoirs sit near capacity while Central and West Texas ration. Data centers are arriving by the hundreds with no required disclosure of projected water consumption before construction. These facilities are frequently sited in rural areas where supply is thinnest, competing directly with farms, ranches, livestock, and households.
- Mandatory disclosure of projected water and power consumption as a permitting condition for large industrial and data center facilities
- A statewide capture and redistribution program treating surplus rainfall in the wet third of Texas as an asset for the dry two thirds
- A statutory priority order: households, livestock, and agriculture above industrial cooling load when supply is constrained
- Incentives for closed-loop and air-cooled systems rather than treating water consumption as free
- Aquifer recharge investment and honest accounting of groundwater depletion
03 • Property Tax
Abolish it. Do not buy it down again.
Texans do not own their homes. They lease them from an appraisal district, and the rent goes up when the district decides it does. A paid-off house still carries a bill that can force a retiree out. Every session produces another temporary buydown that leaves the underlying structure untouched.
I want the property tax abolished and replaced with a broad consumption-based system, argued honestly and in public with real revenue modeling showing exactly how school districts, counties, and hospital districts get funded under the replacement.
04 • Grid and Readiness
Prepared before the storm, not sorry after it.
I spent years in the fire service. Catastrophic failures are almost never surprises. They are known risks that were documented, priced, and then not funded, until the day they collected. Texas has run that play on its grid more than once.
- Regional microgrids capable of islanding and running independently when the statewide system fails, standard practice on military installations
- Hardened substations, upgraded transformers, and buried critical distribution in corridors where overhead line failure has repeatedly cost lives
- Performance standards and audit authority over grid operators with real consequences attached to failure
- Interoperable communications and pre-positioned mutual aid agreements so response is not improvised in the first six hours
05 • Veterans and First Responders
The people who ran toward it.
I served in the Navy and the fire department, so this is not a constituency I discovered during a campaign. Presumptive coverage for occupational illness, mental health access that does not require a firefighter to end his career to use it, survivor benefits that actually reach families, and access to the therapies veterans say are working for them, including the hemp-derived products currently caught in the regulatory chaos above. God first, family second, Texas always.
06 • A new initiative
The Texas Standard
Everything above is a policy position. This one is different. The Texas Standard is a plain statement of what this state has always asked of the people who call it home: work hard, tell the truth, keep your word, and take care of your neighbor. Built to unite Texans across party lines, not divide them further.
Bring me a problem
This platform is not finished, on purpose.
The hemp position exists because business owners and veterans walked me through what the rule changes did to them. The water position exists because rural Texans described what happened when a data center moved in nearby. If something is quietly wrecking your industry, county, or family, send it with the details and the documents.