What Are District 33’s Top Issues?

Many media outlets cover political campaigns solely by keeping track of which candidates have raised the most money. I’d prefer to focus on the issues. But in the campaign for the 33rd Congressional District, I don’t think there are any truly local issues; what’s “local” for Oak Cliff probably sounds foreign in Fort Worth or Arlington. So I plan to poll all of the candidates on a handful of national issues that are key to Democrats: same-sex marriage, abortion, Obamacare, etc. Am I missing anything? Are there issues that you’d prefer we focus on instead of those three?

By Dan Koller Apr. 26, 2012 | 9:42 am | 3 Comments | Comments RSS
3 comments to "What Are District 33’s Top Issues?"
  1. Jonathan Braddick @ April 26, 2012 at 3:59 pm
    Transportation, developing great urban cities

  2. Carlos Quintanilla @ April 27, 2012 at 10:58 am
    Most people in the 33rd Congressional District and I have visited a lot of homes the concerns they are raising

    1. Fixing the streets
    2. Lack of services for Senior Citizens
    3. Lack of jobs for kids graduating from high school.
    4. Complaints about abuses in WIC and other programs
    5. Affordable healthcare.
    6. Getting rid of politicians who have been in office for decades and have done nothing.

    That is what I am hearing daily.

    Carlos Quintanilla

  3. Chrysta Castaneda @ April 27, 2012 at 7:07 pm
    There is one unique “local” issue that must be addressed in Washington, and that is the Trinity Parks development. Washington must fund some of the Trinity tollroad if it is to happen, and getting the Army Corps to sign off on the levees must be finished before the City will move forward on development. Here’s the question for the candidates: build the tollroad in the levees even if it further isolates West and South Dallas? Don’t build it and make the parks happen faster but at the expense of unresolved highway congestion?

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