‘Inside Texas Politics’: Gina Hinojosa, John Muns, Paul Bettencourt, and Making Public Education a Campaign Issue

About this episode

The episode discusses public education as a campaign issue in Texas with guests Gina Hinojosa, John Muns, and Paul Bettencourt.

In the June 14 episode, Democratic nominee for Texas Governor Gina Hinojosa’s campaign is focused on public education and she explains why she’d fire the TEA Commissioner on day one and why she would pause the A-F accountability system. Mayor John Muns discusses traffic concerns surrounding the Dallas Stars’ move north to Plano. And state Senator Paul Bettencourt reacts to the Governor’s call for data center regulation. GUESTS Gina Hinojosa, D – Candidate for Texas Governor Mayor John Muns, Plano State Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R – District 7

People in this episode

Guests: Gina Hinojosa, John Muns, Paul Bettencourt

Topics covered

• public education
• Texas politics
• traffic concerns
• data center regulation
• campaign issues

Keywords

• Texas Governor
• public education
• traffic concerns
• data center regulation
• A-F accountability system

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TEA, Dallas Stars, Texas Governor

Places: Texas, Plano

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