AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AREAS
District 34 includes most of the rural area – including small towns, farms and ranches – in Nueces County. As the mother and grandmother of farmers and ranchers, I know the importance of protecting the industry, which puts at least $100 billion a year into the Texas economy and employs one out of every seven working Texans.
We must empower small towns and rural areas by promoting production agriculture, programs to eradicate boll weevils to protect our crops and end the multi-million dollar threat of wild pigs that are ruining our pastures, crops and killing livestock. We must also encourage a better quality of life in rural areas by providing widespread broadband access to help close the digital divide and find new ways to keep open our rural hospitals which are so vital to the health care system across our state.