State of Texas
State Representative, District 77
Vincent "Vince" Perez
Democratic Incumbent- On ballot as
- Vincent "Vince" Perez
- Current role
- State Representative, Texas House District 77 (elected 2024)
- Background
- Bel Air High School graduate
- Bachelor's and master's degrees in government, Georgetown University
- Early career: congressional staffer
- Public and governmental affairs consultant since 2021
- Lifelong resident of El Paso's Mission Valley
- Experience
- Member, Ways and Means and Higher Education committees
- Deputy Whip, House Democratic Caucus
- El Paso County Commissioner, Precinct 3 (2013–2020)
- Twice chaired the El Paso MPO Transportation Policy Board (2014–15 and 2019–20)
- National County Leader of the Year, American City & County (2016)
- Top priorities
- "My top priority is keeping El Pasoans here"
- Says he is "filing bills to end property tax breaks for data centers"
- "I will keep fighting vouchers that take money out of our public schools"
- Campaign site: "A public law school in El Paso"
- Campaign site: "Expand foreign-trained doctor licensure" and "Protect indigent care"
- Campaign site: "Challenge maps that erase Hispanic and Black voting power"
- Tidbits
- Abortion: On the 2025 abortion-pill law (HB 7), in floor remarks posted on his campaign site: "This bill gives more time to enforce control over her body than she has to hold her rapist accountable."
- Border and immigration: No public statement found
- Guns: No public statement found
- Public schools and vouchers: In a KVIA questionnaire: "I will keep fighting vouchers that take money out of our public schools"
- Property taxes: In a KVIA questionnaire: "I am filing bills to end property tax breaks for data centers" and will push the state "to pay its share of school funding instead of leaving it to homeowners"
Claims and the record- 2025 quorum-break fine: Fined $8,354.25 by the House Administration Committee (April 2026) for the August 2025 quorum break. He said he had asked the committee what purpose the penalties served and that he would evaluate his options on paying.
- Endorsements
- Texas AFL-CIO
- Texas AFT
- Campaign website
- vinceperez.com
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