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| Dr. Laura Cisneros |
Cisneros, who's practiced oncology for 21 years, has an 18 year old son, a clinic in Harlingen and a Brownsville address.
Cisneros is concerned that healthcare is not really available to all.
"There's an income level where you no longer qualify for assistance, but can't afford to pay for health care," stated Cisneros.
Cisneros also advocates for cleaner, purer drinking water from the tap.
"Everyone buys bottled water," she thinks is a poor excuse for not filtering carcinogens, impurities and contaminants from tap water.
Cisneros finds that flooding in the same areas again and again is inexcusable.
"Don't tell me it was an unexpected rain," she tells politicians who make excuses for constant flooding.
"It's not possible to represent big corporations and to represent the people at the same time. The corporations, with their big money, will always win the battle for attention."
"I want to be the voice of the people," Cisneros says.
Cisneros' main competition seems to come from Vicente Gonzalez, who previously served in District 15, but finds District 34 more easily winnable.
Did they move Vicente's residence into District 34, because that makes a difference.
ReplyDeleteYes. they deliberately drew his home out of CD 15 by drawing a narrow line west from the actual Western CD 34 boundary (Veterans Blvd) and went across two Pharr pcts to get to the corner of the Precinct where his house is situated in his McAllen pct - only including just the 1/4 corner of that precinct in the redrawn CD 34 map. They just wanted to grab his house and get him moved to a theoretically easier District in which to run. He wanted to move to running in the east because, with Cameron, it had a stronger DEM rating after redistricting (Packing) vs the 'Dem Plus 1' of District 15. He said that it would be too hard and that he wanted to move to CD 34 as it would be easier.
DeleteAdditionally, 81,000 REGISTERED voters (NOT voters who actually VOTED) East of US 281 in Hidalgo were moved from CD 15 to join Cameron as CD 34. Simultaneously, he GAINED all the Dems in Western Hidalgo (CD 15) - those which used to be Henry Cisneros' voters - and who are Solid Dem voters - it was an even switch on the two edges of Hidalgo - gained the West and lost the East - even swap and even partisanship - but the greatest part is that he abandoned or left 200,000 thousand voters in the center of Hidalgo county that he has represented for his 6 years in Congress - the people who actually elected him. He has never run in Cameron - they were not his constituents. FYI - congressional members do not have to live in their District.
This oncologist is better needed as an oncologist than as a powerless politician. She needs to get head examined.
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