Mary Gonzalez: “There are over 4,000 colonias in Texas.”

“Oh, two things I'm going to sound. So there was a very practical one that I always start with, like, okay, like I said, I represent 263 colonias. There are over 4,000 colonias in Texas. Again, communities that don't have sewer water. So I was able to pass the constitutional amendment to provide hundreds of millions of dollars for water and wastewater infrastructure for colonias and low income rural communities that everybody told me couldn't do that.” (26:04–26:07)

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