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Don Horn Protecting Our Texas 4th Congressional District
DON HORN 4 CONGRESS
Conservative Republican
Protecting Our America
Help Don Horn WIN in Texas!
Why am I running?
I am a U.S. Navy Veteran. After the military, I worked my way through college. My wife and I met in college. We raised our five children on our farm in Grayson County, Texas. We are at the age of retirement. We had no desire to take on any new projects. We looked forward to living out a nice quiet retirement. However, we can no longer ignore the reality of the world around us. I have Bachelor’s degrees from California Baptist College in Religion & Sociology. My wife has her Master’s Degree in nursing. She has worked as a nurse since 1975, and as an ICU nurse since 1980.
Family History
My Dad was born and raised In Southeast Missouri (Ripley County). My Mom was born and raised in Hot Springs, Arkansas. My maternal Grandmother was born in Petit Jean, Arkansas, supposedly of Osage Native and Irish descent.
My parents met and married in California after my dad was mustered out of the Army, at the end of World War 2. My mom’s family followed the migration of the dust bowl immigrants in the 1930’s. They traveled from Arkansas to California working in the produce industry. They eventually settled in the Modesto farming region of California. This is where my dad met my mom. They married and eventually settled on the Mexican Border near El Centro, California.
My mom, dad and mom’s extended family followed the produce industry traveling preset routes of produce migration. They were shed and field workers. Every winter they worked on the Mexican Border and every summer they worked in the central California area from Salinas to Modesto. The work was hard. It was seasonal work with long hours. When the season was over the workers moved to the next region to be harvested. Moving was a constant way of life in the produce industry. Our family were produce workers- “Fruit Tramps” as they were proudly known back then.
In 1959 Uncle Jerry (Jerry Breshears, Mom’s brother) went to work for the AFL-CIO local 78B- Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Workers Union. He quickly worked his way to being the General Secretary of Local 78B. Uncle Jerry negotiated with the packing sheds from the California/Mexican Border to Sacramento California, all of Nevada & Arizona. According to family History, it was Uncle Jerry who helped Cesar Chavez organize the United Farm Workers Union. (Cesar was born in Yuma, Arizona, about fifty miles east of Holtville, California, where Uncle Jerry lived.) Uncle Jerry was the first of our family to graduate from college. After Uncle Jerry, My brother Mike and myself were among the first family members to graduate from college.
Social Work
As a teenager I enjoyed being a member of the church’s youth group. About the same time my older brother started working with CHARLEE Family Care. (CHARLEE is an acronym for: Children Have All Rights Legal Educational and Emotional.) For several years, after the Navy, I worked part time for my brother as a relief parent in the group homes for disadvantaged teenagers. Simultaneously, I worked full time for ARC (The Association for Retarded Citizens). I worked there for several years. First I started working in the group homes. Then I taught in the school for the severely and profoundly retarded clients.
Landscaping & Welding
After working in the Navy, staring into radar scopes and DRT tables, then going to school, it was time for a break. So I started a small landscape company. It was refreshing to be outside working. After a few years working in landscaping my wife and I bought a small piece of land in Grayson County, Texas.
We had our farm. Once you have a small farm it becomes very apparent that things break. So, I bought welding equipment. It doesn’t take long to realize that welding can be expensive and dangerous. So, back to school. Welding school was fun. Once the hood drops down, the little orange glowing bead requires a person’s full attention. The privacy of the welding hood and the precious glowing bead provides it’s own solace.
My Values
My values have been shaped by what I have seen and experienced through out my life.
My early years growing up in a migrant family was not easy. It was seasonal work with long hours. Moving was a constant way of life in the produce industry. Families moved, worked and played together. Family is important.
As an Operation Specialist in the Navy my job description was: To assimilate, evaluate and disseminate information with advice and opinions. Preachers do the same job with their sermons and Bible studies. Sociology is the same process- gather, evaluate and disseminate information into reports. Life is a constant exercise in gathering information and overcoming problems.
ISSUES
Protecting our Country
We need to protect and increase our water supplies in Texas. Water is the life blood of societies. People need clean water to drink, grow food and raise livestock.
Veterans are not political chess pieces. They must be treated with respected.
Government Corruption should anger every American!
After the antics of “The Squad” & Ilhan Omar, every member of Congress (and SCOTUS) must be Born in the USA. We need Americans in Congress- born in America. We need LOUD & PROUD Americans in Congress!
America is a sovereign nation with sovereign borders that must be protected.
English should be the only “Official” language of the government. People have the right to speak any language they want to speak. Official Government business should be conducted in English.
America’s greatest threat: The Communist Chinese have their fingers into every aspect of our lives. Refugees who hold their allegiance to their foreign governments and the land they fled.
Protecting Our Rights
Securing our Speech: This is America, we say what we want to say.
Securing Our Guns: Gun control is the fastest way to destroy America. If we give up our 2A rights, then we have no other rights. The NFA is unconstitutional- (National Firearms Act of 1934 & the Gun Control Act of 1968.)
Our sixth Amendment rights must be protected. The “plea agreement” process should not be used to violate a person’s 6th Amendment rights and to compel a conviction.
Securing Our Votes: There must be a Constitutional Amendment requiring Proof of Citizenship to vote in federal elections! Elections must be in person at an election center on election day with proper ID. The infirmed and military should have special provisions accommodated.
Protecting Our Families:
Parents have the Right & Responsibility to oversee their children’s life, education & health care.
Our Children in The Military Should Not Be Dying to Protect the Financial Investments of Corporations, Politicians, and Foreign Governments. No Parent Deserves to be a “Gold Star Parent.”
Protecting Our District & Our Land
North Texas Counties and Cities should have the right to determine the nature of the businesses that can be established in our communities.
(A corporation’s rights to pursue profits does not supersede the communities right to live and maintain a peaceful healthy life, our families, or our property values. Errant leaders can always be voted out. They should be held criminally liable.)
Call For Action:
We must work together to protect Our Country- Our Rights- Our Water- Our Air- Our lands & Our Families!