Mary Gonzalez: “Texas legislators only make $7,000 a year.”

“So there's a Huge. I know. Huge gap. So Annie's List, an organization that helps select women, targeted my seat, asked me to run, and guess what? I said no, because Texas legislators only make $7,000 a year. And I was like, how do I survive? Like there was a survival question. Yeah. Long story short, my students convinced me to run.” (02:38–02:42)

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