Austin, Texas - District 8 State Senator Florence Shapiro (R-Plano) announced today that she will not seek re-election in 2012. Shapiro will complete her current term that runs through the beginning of January 2013.
I will be making an official announcement today that I will not seek re-election to Texas Senate in District 8. I want you to hear the news first.
AUSTIN, TEXAS - State Senator Florence Shapiro (R-District 8) and many other Senate colleagues today held a press conference to announce public education funding recommendations brought by the Senate Subcommittee on Public Education Funding.
"Our subcommittee has worked very hard and diligently in coming up with these recommendations," Shapiro said. "If fully implemented, we believe these recommendations will result in a major restoration of funding for the public education budget."
"As a voter, you have to believe that concepts of what you believe in, the policies that you believe in, the activities that you believe in manifest themselves in a candidate. Go find that candidate. Find the reason that you are getting up on November the 2nd and going to the polls. That's what ought to motivate you."
See Part 2 of our video series on the issues, where Senator Shapiro sat down with Jim Cardle of Texas Insider to discuss the challenges we are facing as it relates to the state budget and how Texas should continue to lead the way on creating jobs and opportunity.
Earlier this week, Senator Shapiro sat down with Jim Cardle of Texas Insider to discuss education policy.
With the possibility of an $18 billion budget gap, the upcoming legislative session will be unprecedented. It will require leadership, discipline, and a whole lot of old-fashioned grassroots involvement. But it begins with your vote.
Leadership sometimes means making tough choices and fighting hard fights. I am appreciative of the support and the confidence you have placed in me as your State Senator from District 8. With you standing at my side, I have committed myself to being a principled fighter for the citizens of District 8.
At a news conference announcing the opening of two charter schools for autistic children in San Antonio, Sen. Florence Shapiro (R-Plano) renewed her call for the Legislature to allow more charter schools than the current statutory cap allows.
As your Senator, my philosophy has always been—and will continue to be—that the role of government should be a limited one. Government cannot and should not be allowed to continually expand its role.
Senator Florence Shapiro and the mother of a boy who died in a hot day care van have worked together to pass a law which requires day care workers to take additional training if they're transporting children.
Thank you for the confidence and faith you have placed in me as your Senator from District 8; I hope I can count on you for continued support. Please entrust me with your vote once again and we can share the celebration of Victory on November 2, 2010.
On Monday, September 20, 2010, the Senate Select Committee on Redistricting will hold a joint hearing with subcommittees of the House Committee on Redistricting and the House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence. The purpose of this hearing is to receive public testimony.
Today, the Shapiro campaign begins rolling out endorsements for the 2010 election cycle. Our first endorsement is from the Texas Farm Bureau AGFUND.
Watch Senator Shapiro’s introduction of Karl Rove at a Heritage Foundation event in Dallas on July 29, 2010.
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