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Importance Of Elective For Texas House Of Representative

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Pokharel, Rupesh Prof.
Sherry Sharifian Govt 2306-71003 September 27, 2017
1 Elective for Texas House of Representative
I live in 3113 W. Walnut Hill Ln, Irving 75038. Irving lies in district no. 115 in the house of representative. Irving is a city within the Dallas County. After looking at the map of district number 115, we can say that it is gerrymandered. 2 The present representative from this district is Matt Rinaldi for Texas State house (Who represents me?). Matt Rinaldi is a legislature and attorney from Irving representing the republican party. The total population of people living in this district is 180798, among which 66.4 % of people are within the age group of 18-64, 25% of people are below the age of 18 and only 8% of people …show more content…

Based on my responses, this quiz placed me into the next generation left which includes people with liberal values. As a person has different political views towards different things, my views are also scattered between democrats and republicans in different prospects. I stand as a democrat while taking the views related to criminal justice and immigration where they are more liberal. In some cases, like the issue of gun control, I am in support of republicans as they strongly oppose the use of guns and hand arms to control the crime.
The state house of Texas requires a person to be a U.S. citizen, 21 old or over, 2 years resident of Texas and 1year resident prior to the elections. Watching over the past, the current representative for state house Matt Rinaldi is a republican. In 2012, the district was represented by Bennett Ratliff who was also a republican. Matt Rinaldi is proving his strong presence by winning the seat for two times in the election of 2014 and 2016. This shows that the republicans have very strong voter population in this district. Running for the House, I believe that my ideologies regarding the political values are more democrats which would make it harder to win in this district. However, looking to the general election of 2012, President Obama who was a democrat received more votes from this district. This shows that the voters of this district have a mixed kind of political

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