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Craig Goldman: “Every single state rep represents about 180,000 people.”

Featuring: Craig Goldman, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 12

JSA EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE CRAIG GOLDMAN.

Published March 3, 2021 | Video Starts at 00:48

Sure. Well, my name is Craig Goldman. I'm a state representative. I represent south portion. My district is consists of southwest Tarrant County. Every single state rep represents about 180,000 people. With so many more people moving to Texas, that will probably be closer to 200,000 people after we have redistricting this year. (00:48–00:53)

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“There are 150 members in the Texas state house.”
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“We come to Austin every other year for only six months to pass laws for the citizens of Texas.”
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“There were two committees brought together as one, so we had a joint committee hearing.”
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“There were 24 members of the total combined committees.”
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“When 4.5 million Texans not only don't have power, but they don't have power for several days, then there are some major things that went…”
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“There was a great lack of communication from the people who knew that was going on or in preparation of what was going on to the people of…”
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“We warn before hurricanes. We give people plenty of warning because we see the hurricane coming and we didn't see coming.”
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“She just resigned about 20 minutes ago.”
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“This was a major storm unlike the state of Texas as a whole has ever seen before in the winter.”
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“We've never in our lifetimes have had record cold, consecutive cold days like we had statewide.”
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“I feel certain laws this time are going to be a little more strict and say, you have to do this now.”
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“We basically have five major sources to provide power for us in the state of Texas.”
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“The windmills, while in perfect conditions, work great for us and are a great source of energy at a very low cost.”
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“Solar panels, another great green type of energy. Low carbon emissions, cheap to produce.”
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“Coal is another form of energy supplier force. But I didn't realize this until we had the hearings that the coal plants couldn't run because…”
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“We have two nuclear plants in the state of Texas. One of them wasn't performing at 100% capacity.”
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“Natural gas we're extremely dependent on. It's a great provider of power force.”
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“We got off of [the national grid] in the 70s.”
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“Governor Abbott requested FEMA's help and emergency help from President Biden.”
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“Federal help not only will still be coming, but it has been here all this week and late last week.”
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“We've been in session since January 12th.”
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“Our Constitution that goes back to the 1800s doesn't allow us to pass a bill for the first 60 days we're here.”
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“If they didn't shut down power, there was possibly we were minutes away from losing all power in the state of Texas for over a month.”
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