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Gina Hinojosa Begins Work to Take Office as Texas' 1st Democratic Governor in Decades
Hinojosa will use her first public briefing to spell out education and ethics priorities as transition work begins ahead of her January inauguration.
- Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa will address reporters today at 2 p.m. in Austin for her first news conference since securing a decisive victory in Tuesday's gubernatorial race.
- Hinojosa defeated incumbent Governor Greg Abbott, ending 12 years of his leadership and becoming the first Democrat elected to the office in more than 30 years.
- The incoming governor pledged to fire Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath and dismantle the state's school voucher program on her first day in office.
- Abbott conceded the race and offered to assist Hinojosa during the executive transition, with operations beginning immediately ahead of her January 2027 inauguration.
- Beyond education reform, Hinojosa vowed to end no-bid state contracts and restore ethics standards, warning that "corruption does not become right when our side does it.
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Gina Hinojosa begins work to take office as Texas' 1st Democratic
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa , the first Democrat to win the office since 1990, said Thursday she would build a bipartisan administration after her stunning upset in the midterm elections that shattered decades
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Austin, Nov. 5 (EFE).- Gina Hinojosa, the Mexican-born Democrat elected in Tuesday's mid-term election as governor of Texas, promised to work with the Republicans and advance that she will lead the state in a "bipartisan" way. At her first press conference since this week's historic victory, in which she broke down the [...] The entry The democrat Hinojosa, Texas' elected governor: "We'll have a bipartisan government" was first published in Hola…
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