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Case, who previously challenged Rep. Stan Lambert in the Republican primary, argues that conservative voices in the Big Country haven’t been truly represented at the Capitol.
“The politicians will stand in front of you and they’ll tell you how conservative they are, but when they go to Austin, they do whatever it is they want to do. They are not voting, especially for the Big Country. We’ve got conservative Christian values here, and those are not being represented in Austin,” Case said. “I think of anything after last week, there’s been a real call for people to stand up for their conservative Christian values.”
In her primary run, Case narrowly lost to Lambert, which she attributes to Democrats crossing over to vote. Despite the narrow defeat, she earned endorsements from President Donald Trump and Governor Greg Abbott. She says this election cycle, support from conservative leaders and groups has already been encouraging.
“When Stan started putting out some signals that he might not be running again, I started getting phone calls from Austin people…. saying, ‘Do you know that we want you to get in this race? We need you down there with us. We need some more conservative fighters. So we want you in this race,'” Case said.
Case emphasized she has firsthand experience working on legislation for issues that matter to West Texas, such as agriculture, food security, water, and foreign ownership of farmland. She also highlighted education reform as one of her top priorities.
“To me, having been an educator for more than a decade, and coming from an educational family, education is always going to be important, and they did make headway on school choice,” Case explained. “But what we need to understand is we’ve got 5.5 million children in the state of Texas, and a small, small percentage of those children were included in that school choice package. So we know that 95% of the students in Texas were still not touched by that. They’re still in public school, and we have a long way to go to fix our public schools. They did get a significant amount of funding, and that’s a good thing, but I think there’s a lot that still needs to be done to help our public schools.”
Case also pushed for eliminating the STAAR test and cracking down on explicit materials in school libraries.
“The way we are testing now is done on a statewide basis and a nationally normed basis, and I think we need to go back to giving the teachers much more autonomy in their classrooms,” Case added. “The level of pornography in our Texas schools is unbelievable. I have seen things as a grown married woman that I cannot unsee, and there’s no way that you can make an argument that that stuff is educational, and we have not been able to get it out of our schools, and that is because of the obscenity exemption, and that’s something we’re fighting hard to get rid of. We came very close this session, but it has not happened, and it’s got to be taken care of.”
Case said her decade of work in Austin has prepared her to step into the role immediately.
“I’ve been going down on my own dime, on my own time, working on the issues that matter to the people in the Big Country… This is not something I’m doing because I want a title. This is something I do because these issues are too important for us not to work on. This is something that we’ve got to focus on because what happens in Austin is important to our kids and our grandkids,” Case said. “These are things that I’ve been able to be effective on, and I will be more effective on if I’m a legislator and have a staff to help me work on them. So I’m the only one who has ever worked on any of these issues and ever been to Austin, so I’ve got the experience, I have the connections, and I’m ready to start day one and walk into the role.”
Case is one of eight candidates vying to replace retiring HD 71 Representative Stan Lambert. Visit Big Country Politics to learn more about each candidate.
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