Rhetta Andrews Bowers
What this job does: Your district's vote in the Texas House of Representatives. Members write and vote on state laws and the state budget, and every bill to raise taxes has to start in the House. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- State Representative, House District 113 (first elected 2018)
- Occupation
- State representative; former broadcast journalist
Background
- Holds a bachelor's degree in telecommunications with an emphasis in broadcast journalism. source: branch.vote
- Worked as a broadcast journalist, starting in public television at PBS headquarters and WETA. source: branch.vote
- Worked as a news producer at KCEN-TV and as educational services coordinator at KERA. source: branch.vote
- First elected to the Texas House for District 113 in 2018. source: branch.vote
In their own words
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- Raising the Texas minimum wage to $15 per hour source: branch.vote
- Expanding Medicaid in Texas source: branch.vote
- Raising teacher pay and fully funding full-day prekindergarten source: branch.vote
- Vocational training and apprenticeships source: branch.vote
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