State of Texas
State Representative, District 73
Carrie Isaac
Republican Incumbent- On ballot as
- Carrie Isaac
- Current role
- State Representative, Texas House District 73 (since January 10, 2023; elected November 2022, re-elected November 2024)
- Background
- Bachelor's degree, Stephen F. Austin State University (1997) (per Ballotpedia)
- Master's degree in health education (per campaign)
- Executive director, Digital Education & Work Initiative of Texas (DEWIT), a nonprofit her campaign says assists veterans
- Served on the board of the Helping Hands food pantry for over a decade (per campaign)
- Lives in Hays County
- Fourth-generation Texan (per campaign)
- Experience
- Republican nominee, House District 45 (2020); lost the November 2020 general election to Erin Zwiener
- Author, HB 5325, on proof of groundwater supply for new plats; did not pass (as she told Community Impact)
- Top priorities
- Property taxes: "cap homestead appraisals at 3%, require a two-thirds voter vote on tax increases"
- Water: says she will refile a bill "to require new plats that rely on groundwater to prove an adequate supply before approval"
- Schools: "Funding should follow the student, reward results and support strong neighborhood schools and parental choice"
- Data centers: "I do not believe the Hill Country is the place for data centers"
- Campaign site: "Secure the border and keep communities safe"
- Tidbits
- Abortion: Campaign site, under "Protect unborn life": "100% pro-life"
- Border and immigration: Campaign site: "Increase funding for border security" and "Stop the magnets that encourage illegal immigration"
- Guns: Campaign site: "Preserve the Second Amendment"
- Public schools and vouchers: In a Community Impact Q&A: "Funding should follow the student, reward results and support strong neighborhood schools and parental choice."
- Property taxes: In a Community Impact Q&A: "I will fight to cap homestead appraisals at 3%, require a two-thirds voter vote on tax increases"
- Endorsements
- Texas Right to Life PAC
- Texas Values Action
- Texas Home School Coalition
- Young Conservatives of Texas (primary)
- Campaign website
- isaacfortexas.com
Open in the full comparison: Hays County, Comal County