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In Valdez, Texas Democrats chose a lesbian woman of color running canada goose outlet online store review on a progressive platform over White, a straight, white Houston businessman and son of a former governor, running as a centrist. The incumbent, who canada goose outlet price is favored to win, has amassed more than $40 million for his re election campaign, while Valdez in recent months raised onlyabout $200,000. Abbott beat his 2014 opponent, then state Sen. Wendy Davis, canada goose outlet in a landslide, despite strong national support behind the pink sneakered, pro choice candidate.

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But Valdez,the eighth child born to Mexican American migrant farmworkers, is used to overcoming long odds. When she became sheriff in 2004, she was the nation’s only Latina sheriff, and among the state’s first openly gay canada goose jacket outlet toronto sheriffs.

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canada goose coats “It’s long overdue to have canada goose womens outlet Latinas sit in these halls of power,” native Texan Amy Hinojosa, president of national Latina organization MANA, told HuffPost last month. “When you think of the generations of canada goose outlet boston girls to come, to see a Latina, canada goose outlet in usa a queer woman in the state house, that just represents such power for young women to be able to aspire to that.” canada goose coats

A Valdez victory in November would also break barriers for the LGBTQ community, as she would become the nation’s first lesbian governor (Oregon Gov. Kate Brown,who took office in 2015, identifies as bisexual).

“You want to see my scars?” Valdez joked to HuffPost in March, speaking of the discrimination she had faced as a queer woman in her career in Texas law enforcement. “The first four or five years [as sheriff] were extremely difficult. I got hate email and faxes. I got pushback canada goose factory outlet vancouver from a lot of the canada goose outlet factory good old boys.”

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Canada Goose Outlet The governor signed the notoriously anti immigrant Senate Bill 4 into law last year, which banned “sanctuary” policies that limit local cooperation with federal deportation efforts. In canada goose outlet new york city 2015, Valdez clashed with Abbott when she said Dallas County law enforcement officials would only cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on a case by case basis. Canada Goose Outlet

buy canada goose jacket “People who rape, murder and abuse, commit violent crimes, I have no trouble saying no to and I often joke I wish I could say that to a lot of Americans,” Valdez told HuffPost in March. buy canada goose jacket

canada goose clearance sale “But people who came here for a better life, get picked up for a broken taillight or speeding, who make as many mistakes as the rest of us Americans make. which one of us who has no sin can cast the first stone?” she continued. “We should just canada goose outlet in canada leave them alone.” canada goose clearance sale

In the lead up to the runoff, Valdez had faced criticism from local Latinx activists who questioned her record on immigration as sheriff, saying her department often cooperated with ICE canada goose outlet nyc in handing over undocumented detainees. Valdez’s team told HuffPost in April canada goose uk site that as a local official, she faced challenges in pushing back against the anti immigrant efforts at the federal and state levels.

Another frequent critique of Valdez has been that she has appeared unprepared to address state level policy issues a concern raised in local newspaper endorsements that went to White.

Canada Goose online “She’s demonstrated a really profound lack of understanding of major policy challenges facing Texas,” Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University in Houston and head of its Texas Politics program at the Baker Institute, told HuffPost last week. Canada Goose online

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Canada Goose sale Responding to such critiques and the endorsements White garnered, Valdez’s team told HuffPost last month that “she can’t win them all,” and she was “used to people telling her she can’t do it or it can’t be done. Time and time again, she has been underestimated canada goose jacket uk and proved them wrong.” Canada Goose sale

Valdez’s victory will likely intensify speculation as to whether Texas could become a politically competitive state for Democrats.

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