Claudia Ordaz Perez | |
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Member of the TexasHouseofRepresentatives from the 76th district | |
Assumed office January 12, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Cesar Blanco |
Personal details | |
Born | Claudia Ordaz January 13,1986 El Paso,Texas,U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Vincent Perez |
Residence(s) | El Paso,Texas,U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Texas at El Paso (BA) |
Claudia Ordaz Perez (born January 13,1986) [1] is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party,she has represented the 76th District in the Texas House of Representatives since 2021.
Ordaz Perez graduated from Montwood High School. [2] She then went on an attended the University of Texas at El Paso,where she received a BA in Political Science in 2008. Since then she served as the El Paso council member for District 6 of the city and was Mayor pro tempore at one point. She left the city council upon her election to the state legislature. She also was a press secretary for the United States House of Representatives in the 112th United States Congress and communications director for the Texas Senate. She also attended the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. [3]
Claudia's husband Vincent Perez was a El Paso County commissioner from 2012 to 2020. [4]
Ordaz Perez was elected for city council of El Paso in 2014 in a special election for District 6. She kept the seat after the 2015 and 2018 general election. Claudia announced in October 2019 to run for the Texas House of Representatives District 76th seat,that was being held by Cesar Blanco at the time. [3] [5] Representative Blanco announced he would run for the 29th District in the Texas Senate. [3] By announcing her run,she resigned her council seat. [5] Claudia ran unopposed in the November 2020 election and defeated Elisa Tamayo earlier in the year in the primaries. [6] [7]
Perez is in favor of increasing funding for public schools,as well as long-term equitable funding. She believes that the state short-changed the local schools of El Paso and crippled the education system. [2]
Perez supports expanding Medicaid to cover more low-income uninsured adults. She states that 1 in 3 adults in the city of El Paso are uninsured and hopes that expanding Medicaid would reduce the cost for tax payers in the long run by paying for uncompensated care. [2]
Perez is in favor of parents spending time at home during the first months of parenting,as well as taking care of the elderly. She passed the Parental Leave Policy for the city of El Paso,which allows employees to donate unused sick leave to parents at no cost to taxpayers. She plans to influence the position statewide. [2]
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