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Ramon Romero Jr.: “Dallas Fort Worth probably has close to 8 million people.”

Featuring: Ramon Romero Jr., Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 90

State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth

Published January 3, 2022 | Video Starts at 15:15

… at Fort Worth ISD not be able to vote for who their official is or trustee is? They deserve that. Right. But I mean, you're talking about an area of Dallas Fort Worth probably has close to 8 million people. And there are estimates that of those 8 million people, almost 2 million are either legal permanent residents or undocumented. (15:15–15:18)

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“Dad participated in the bracero program, so he went to California in 1961. Seven years in the bracero program.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 01:57-02:05
“Bracero program was the former wetback program, because that's what it was actually called, the wetback program.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 02:05-02:11
“The feds called it the wetback program.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 03:12-03:15
“We all moved into Poly. All of us. The vast majority of my brothers and sisters.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 03:49-03:54
“I dropped out of college in my first year.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 06:36-06:39
“Got my irrigation license doing sprinkler systems.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 06:50-06:53
“That evolved into a pool subcontracting business, which I still maintain today.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 06:53-06:58
“We started in 1994, so 28 years now.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 07:01-07:06
“City of Fort Worth had a model block program going on. $5 million they were going to spend in our community.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 08:15-08:21
“I served for 12 years on zoning and planning, chaired the Planning Commission.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 08:44-08:50
“Half the people that voted for me in my city council race had never even voted before.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 10:06-10:11
“We work on a lot of mental health, Mental health access, kind of cutting some of the barriers for other mental health professionals.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 11:23-11:30
“One of the first bills I ever passed was a bill on features which are like, these Mexican bars where girls are hostesses.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 11:42-11:48
“There's thousands of these bars that pay these ladies based upon what they. They basically get.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 12:09-12:14
“My number one issue, and I said that I will, I will quit whenever we are ever able to allow the undocumented community to access a driver's…”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 12:29-12:39
“Businesses need it [driver's permits for undocumented individuals].”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 13:08-13:10
“George W. Bush was somebody I actually voted for. Believe that he wanted comprehensive immigration reform.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 13:52-13:59
“There was an issue between citizen voting age population and actual voting age population.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 14:33-14:38
“In areas like where I live, you might have 20 to 30% undocumented and, or legal permanent residents.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 14:45-14:52
“There are estimates that of those 8 million people, almost 2 million are either legal permanent residents or undocumented.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 15:17-15:25
“We need more local farms in dfw.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 17:23-17:27
“We should have so many farmers markets in this town.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 17:29-17:33
“The Latino community in Fort Worth is very successful.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 18:35-18:39
“In the 30 years that I've been in business here, I've seen folks go from work to supervisor to part owner to owner.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 18:46-18:55
“We are not involving them enough, we're not engaging them enough, we're not doing enough things in Spanish.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 19:10-19:16
“Farm workers still in this state are still being abused.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 20:59-21:04
“We're not expanding Medicaid.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 21:21-21:23
“There's going to be another push to kill in-state tuition for the, you know, children of undocumented.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 21:51-21:57
“Tarrant County, we're one of the only places in Texas where an undocumented person just gets stabilized and sent home.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 26:48-26:55
“This population is working so hard to build the best economy in the country, but yet they're not being rewarded with, you know, tax dollars…”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 27:07-27:17
“There has been never been any community that's been under resourced in terms of voter registration than the Latino community.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 30:03-30:09
“In Fort Worth as an example, we'd never had a state rep until, until I came in office.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 30:08-30:13
“We are almost 35 to 40% Hispanic Latino in this city.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 30:30-30:34
“My district is about 65% Latino... only about 37% Spanish surname voter registration.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 30:30-30:43
“Fort Worth finally getting to the point to where we can get past the politics of the Trinity river vision is going to be something that's…”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 35:32-35:42
“76104 isn't the most unhealthy zip code in the United States of America.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 36:34-36:40
“I am going to continue to believe in Maddie Parker, that she has her heart in the right place, especially when it comes to education.”
State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. District 90 FORTitude FW Podcast Ft Worth | Uploaded January 3, 2022 | 36:44-36:51
“I ended up winning by 111 votes.”
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