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Greetings!
I am Eugene Howard, and I am running for the office of the 14th Texas Congressional District because I’m seeing drastic changes in our individual communities that will negatively affect us on a wide scale. We’ve seen our political system be inundated with corruption for too long, and the cancers of selfish agendas have spread and become so entrenched in our government that we can no longer look to those who have sat in political offices for years to do anything to root out the fraudulence and dishonesty.
It’s up to people like you and me to do something that will positively influence our lives and help maintain our sense of values.
As a married father of three children, I am a very simple man hailing from right here, in Houston, Texas. As a matter fact, I attended Texas Southern University, a staple institution in our great city, and I’m a former NAACP Branch President and currently serve on the Texas State NAACP Criminal Justice Committee. I have testified over twenty times in this last 2021 Texas Legislative session. My days studying music and education at TSU have prepared me for my daily interactions with the next generation of our leaders and thinkers. Also I was an educator in the SPED(special needs) and Behavioral classrooms Houston Independent School District and Fort Bend Independent School District. I have coached Little League sports in our community for over the last seven years.
My activism, education, and faith have prompted me to stand and help instill positive and uplifting change in our communities. We have not seen our freedom under such an attack since the Civil Rights movement. The fight is on with State and Local Governments—I’m the fighter we need. However, over the past decade, I’ve noticed a marked decline in the level of competency, accountability, and potency in the offices of our elected officials, and this decline forced me to take action.
After all, with the information that is readily available to each of us, we now have no excuse for sitting idly by.
It’s my passion for jobs and justice that will drive my work in leading our community. The old adage says, “If you know better, you should do better.” As we endeavor to increase our own knowledge base about how to live our best lives, our society should benefit from our accumulation and execution of what we learn. Allowing others to be responsible for the information that we receive has proven highly ineffective, if not deadly. Even holy texts tell us that people perish because of their lack of knowledge. What you don’t know can and will kill you. Therefore, I’m calling on each of you to unite with me in not only making our communities better, but by also joining with me in taking responsibility for our personal educational experience and those of our children!
If we are to change our nation, we must get involved with the daily processes of our government. Now is not the time to be silent. Our collective silence has given space to individuals who have repeatedly sought their own interests and not those of the people they claim to represent. We, as the silent majority, must take our stand and use our voices to inspire our fellow citizens to reach for better and expect greater. We must stop believing that we can’t and begin embracing that fact that, we the people, WILL! We are no longer separate. The very backbone of our republic, The Declaration of Independence, screams that no man is an island! We cannot allow this current climate of separation and segregation to stand!
When it comes to our communities, our cities, our state, and our nation…
What Makes Us Great is that We’re Together!