Genevieve Collins is challenging incumbent Colin Allred for Texas’s 32nd Congressional District of the United States House of Representatives. The district includes primarily the northern and eastern portions of Dallas County, including Garland, as well as a very small portion of Collin County.
She is a seventh-generation Texan and a business person who believes that Texans want is a pro-business environment, a pro-Texas values environment and a place where they can have great neighborhoods, great schools for their children and success for families.
“My opponent talks about how important it is to be from here,” Collins said. “I’m not only from here. I’ve built a business here, created hundreds of jobs and worked with every school district that makes up this congressional district. Our community should demand someone with real business experience, someone who has balanced a budget — something Congress forgot how to do a long time ago.”
Education
“I’ve advocated for equity in schools for my entire career ensuring that we don’t leave millions of kids behind in the way we just experienced with millions not having access to broadband and connectivity and a device during the pandemic,” Collins said. “I’m proud of my work alongside all the area school districts. These folks are doing incredible work and I want to recognize our teachers as front-line responders.”
She believes more education decisions should be handed down to state and local control and she will fight tooth and nail to make that happen.
“It’s the right thing to do and the federal government can never know a classroom of 30 kids the way a teacher does,” she said.
She also said that the achievement gap for students must be closed.
“Regardless of your ZIP code, you matter and you deserve an education.”
Government overreach
Collins believes in smaller government and said that the government’s overreach during the pandemic has been egregious.
“When the government tells businesses that they are not essential, that’s a real problem for me. The government can never be in the business of picking winners and losers. That is a massive overreach of what its abilities and what I believe its rights are,” Collins said. “I don’t think that our current representative stood up for any small businesses.”
Second Amendment
As an advocate of the Second Amendment, she believes that everyone should be able to protect themselves and their families. There are 20,000 gun laws in America and many of them are not being enforced. One more isn’t going to change anything.
“Common sense gun control should mean that Chicago Is the safest city in America,” Collins said. “They have the most gun regulations of anywhere in the country. So, shouldn’t by common sense, it be the safest place to iive?”
Abortion
Collins is pro-life with the exceptions of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother.
“There are currently late-term abortions as well as infanticide where a baby can be discarded after it is born alive,” she said. “Both of those are held Democratic principles. I feel that infanticide is murder. I think it is unconscionable.”
Other options besides abortion are available. She added that as a nation, we have lost our sense of morality.
Immigration
The candidate believes that we need immigrants to come to the U.S.
“We need them to be a part of our economy and quite frankly, they want to be here, living in the greatest country ever created,” she said.
“True immigration reform needs to happen to enable people to come here legally. And we have to get really tough on these human traffickers who are abusing young children and women that try to cross the border.”
Collins doesn’t believe in amnesty, but she does believe in a pathway to immigration.
“If you follow our laws, you can be part of our country but if you try to circumvent our laws, that’s not OK,” she said. “There’s a process and what I believe is that people should be able to come out of the shadows and apply like everyone else without worrying about being deported – unless you are a criminal, then you’ve got to go.”
Check www.thegarlandtexan.com to learn Collins’ stance on caring for our veterans, the economy and health care. Part 2 will be posted Wednesday, Sept. 23.