Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) in support of former Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s (D. TX) gubernatorial campaign:
Friend,
Texas is a special place. After growing up just a little bit north in Oklahoma, I spent a decade studying and teaching in the Lone Star State. It’s where I started a family, a career, a life.
That’s why I’m so distressed by what I see happening under Republican leadership. I see the highest uninsured rate in the nation, thanks to a Governor who has blocked the expansion of Texas’s Medicaid program. I see discriminatory voter ID laws that make it harder for Texans to cast legal ballots. I see a state in desperate need of new leadership.
But I also see a new leader emerging who can put Texas back on track: Lupe Valdez.
The daughter of migrant farmworkers, Lupe is ready to fight for all Texans, not just the wealthy few. But winning this race won’t be easy, especially because Lupe’s going up against the incumbent Republican Governor’s massive war chest, filled with cash from the special interests who spend big to get their way in Austin.
Friend, will you chip in whatever you can afford to support Lupe’s campaign and help Democrats take back Texas? Even a few dollars makes a big difference, and every contribution makes a statement about your hopes for the future of Texas.
Lupe may have an uphill battle ahead of her, but one thing is for sure: she is a fighter.
She put herself through school, sometimes working multiple jobs to make ends meet. Against the odds, she won four terms as sheriff of a then deep red Dallas County, where she worked tirelessly to improve the state’s criminal justice system. And -- with our support -- Lupe can make history again and be the first Latina and LGBTQ governor of Texas.
This race could come down to a few hundred votes -- and your contribution helps us reach one extra voter, knock on one more door, or make one more phone call to change this state. I do not say lightly that this could be the difference between building a Texas we believe in -- expanding healthcare, funding our schools, helping working families, stopping the attacks on immigrants -- or one where we continue to let our state be governed by a Tea Party agenda.
If we organize, band together, and fight as hard as we possibly can, we can build a Texas that works for all. But it’s going to take every single person on this team committing to make a difference.
Let's show Lupe that we have her back. Chip in whatever you can afford right now to support her grassroots campaign and help her win in November.
Thanks for being a part of this,
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator, Massachusetts