Candidate Focus! Gina Ortiz Jones
Gina-Ortiz Jones for Congress
Candidate Focus! We have chosen the remarkable Gina Ortiz Jones, running for Congress from Texas' 23rd district, as the candidate on whom we will focus our support from now to November.
Watch here for opportunities to help us get her to Washington! Gina Ortiz Jones embodies our mission to elect outstanding, accountable, diverse candidates to office to promote more representative government. By attracting voters to her campaign, we also aim to increase turnout for other diverse, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.
Gina Ortiz Jones for Congress
Gina Ortiz Jones is building a better Texas.
Bio: Gina Ortiz Jones was raised in San Antonio by a hard-working immigrant, single mother from the Philippines. Gina, at times, lived in subsidized housing and relied on reduced-price lunches. She went on to graduate in the top ten of her class at John Jay High School and serve in the Air Force, including being deployed to Iraq.
Jones was director for investment at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the senior advisor for trade enforcement. She is a U.S. Air Force veteran and she served as an intelligence officer in Iraq. She earned her master's and bachelor's degrees in economics and a bachelor's degree in East Asian studies, all from Boston University. She also earned a graduate degree from the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies. Jones was recognized as a 2016 American Council on Germany Young Leader and is a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member. She is also a member of the Truman National Security Project Defense Council. (Source: Ballotpedia)
She is running for the seat currently occupied by Republican William Hurd, who is retiring. In 2018, she lost to Hurd by only 926 votes.
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