I am running in the 2026 election as the Green Party candidate for Texas Lieutenant Governor.
My experience is widely varied. I received my Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1986. Most recently, I was a high school math teacher at Jefferson High School in San Antonio. I have lived in San Antonio, Houston, Tyler, Longview, Carrollton. I recently moved to the Lindale area of east Texas, where my wife and I presently live.
In my campaign for Lieutenant Governor, I want to bring a focus on issues of importance to ordinary Texans — the need for public transportation in cities, the need for investment in our rural areas, and the need for reform of our election code. I believe we need a revitalized spirit of civic pride and engagement and the realization that we can act together to set a standard for state government to serve the public interest. The Texas state government can do a much better job of serving the public. We can and should insist on the incentives and resources to replace the priority on special interests and partisan politics with a priority for the public interest.
This site began as the website for my 2016 candidacy for Congress. I ran for U.S. Representative for the 24th District as a Green Party candidate. It was educational, as I learned firsthand how completely the political system is controlled by and for the very few. I think we are all coming to understand this better. The main purpose of the 2016 campaign was to give more visibility to the reasons for our predicament and more visibility to possible solutions. What I realize ever more clearly is the system(s) themselves — monetary system, duopoly electoral system, transportation system, government bureaucracy — have great resistance to alternative or competing ideas. I suppose any social heirarchy must ruthlessly suppress competition to preserve itself. So the reformers are relegated to the fringe of social awareness. Yet, when the ruling class structures break and fall, when the light shines on alternatives, the reformers who have put forth ideas will have a chance.
You will find on this site several works by other authors on the monetary system and monetary reform. This is the single most important political issue in the United States because money plays such a ubiquitous role in our society. It should not be a surprise that few people accurately understand the monetary system and even fewer people know it is a political issue. The media-controlled information stream leaves this topic completely unmentioned and treats it as an economics matter, when in fact, it is a political choice. The choice is whether we live under the Federal Reserve System, serving private profit and a corporate royalty, or a Public Money System, serving the public interest and an enlightened society. Suffice to say that we cannot have a genuine democracy unless the monetary system is under democratic public control.
Acacia farnesiana, better known as the huisache tree, is a small thorny tree that is probably native to the more arid regions of Central America and the Southwest United States. It tends to sprout in multiple spindly trunks that have rather long and sharp thorns. It takes more of a tree form as it matures and can be pruned to an attractive shape. It has yellow orange flowers in the spring and produces seed pods as is characteristic of the legume family. Learn more at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center where it is known as vachellia farnesiana.
I chose this mascot because I feel it is representative of the probable future for a Texan in the 21st century. I seriously considered choosing the honey mesquite tree since it is regarded as more attractive and useful, but the scientific name, prosopis glandulosa, just doesn't work as a website title. Now that I am living in east Texas, the thought of the shortleaf pine, pinus echinata or the loblolly pine, pinus taeda has become more appealing.
Texas is becomming more and more a car-park colony of Wall Street. I have a morbid fascination with the methods and memes of this progression, and a strong desire to find another way. The ruling class proudly points to enormous highway monuments and wide strips of concrete, while hiding the costs and pretending to be mystified by rising taxes. Texas is a leader in greenhouse gas emissions and climate change denial seems to be the official religion. The grip of fossil fuels and the banking cartel is strong, but their system is brittle and vulnerable. Perhaps there will be an enormously great traffic jam that finally brings the realization that we could do better.
I am also quite interested in the agriculture practices of Texas. The agricultural sector is a major user of chemicals which have found their way into everything we touch or eat or drink. As global warming progresses, the agriculture sector in Texas faces increased difficulties. I am not sure when the last good harvest occurred. It seems it is either too flooded or too dry or too hot for optimal chemical doused genetically modified conditions. I truly believe this is a very important topic for our future.
We are told the cost of climate adaptation is too high, but what is the cost of denial? The drought emergency declaration has been renewed for the fourth straight year. The 2024 Smokehouse Creek Fire was the largest in Texas recorded history. And then there is the still ongoing recovery from hurricane Harvey (15.8MB pdf file). Will Houston ever recover, or will there just be unmentioned sacrifice zones?
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