Royce Brooks: "Our Priority Is Making the Biggest, Best Run at Flipping Control of the State House"
The latest episode of the National Podcast of Texas features Annie’s List executive director Royce Brooks. Next month will mark a year since she was installed as the leader of the sixteen-year-old organization that recruits, trains, and supports progressive women seeking office at both the state and local levels. The Fort Worth native and Rice graduate came to the job after serving as Atlanta’s first-ever chief equity officer and was previously policy director for Sylvester Turner’s campaign for mayor of Houston. She was also statewide policy director for Wendy Davis’s 2014 campaign for Texas governor. Under Brooks’s direction, Annie’s List is recruiting candidates to run for the seventeen Texas House seats their research suggests are vulnerable in 2020, ahead of the legislature’s redistricting-focused session in 2021.
Three takeaways from her appearance on the National Podcast of Texas:
1. With redistricting coming in the 2021 session of the legislature, Brooks believes it’s imperative Texas Democrats use the 2020 cycle to flip the House to Democratic control.
“We expect Texas to gain three congressional districts based on population growth over the last decade. And that population growth has absolutely been driven by communities of color and by young people. If we’re able to flip control of the chamber, we will have the chance for those districts to be drawn to reflect the communities that are the nexus of that growth. And if we don’t, then they won’t and we’ll be effectively locked out for another decade.”
Read more and listen to the podcast: https://www.texasmonthly.com/podcast/royce-brooks-priority-flipping-control-state-house/
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