Jill Wolfskill
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FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 13 I’m a follower of Jesus Christ. His principles have guided my life and served us well as we raised our children and grew our business. If elected to the Texas House, these are the principles I will take with me to help me prioritize between good, better, and best. I humbly ask for your vote on March 6 to represent you in Austin.
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Howdy Grimes County, I’m Jill Wolfskill, running to be your next State Representative. I’ve been married to Joe for 41 years and we have five children and five grandchildren. Joe and I have owned and operated our business, James Industries, for 35 years and are very proud to be small business owners. Our company represents manufacturers and sells equipment going into power and chemical plants. We are, by nature, service oriented and problem-solvers. I believe these skills will serve the district well if I am blessed to represent the district in Austin. Previously, I served as a precinct chair and election judge and was elected as a delegate five times to the state convention. I educated my children at home in the pioneering days of the homeschool movement. It took a lot of resilience and determination to complete their education, which makes me all the more proud of the men and women my children have become. My oldest daughter went on to become a special education teacher and earned Teacher of the Year award. One of my sons is serving his ninth deployment in the Navy. Our other daughter is a NICU nurse, and we have a bioenvironmental scientist and an industrial engineer employed at James Industries. Joe and I own 10 acres in Austin County, and that land is precious to us. In our 25 years as landowners, we have dealt with threats of eminent domain abuse, people trying to pump our groundwater out from under us, and rising property taxes both on our home and business. I’m running because I want to protect the freedoms that we have enjoyed for the next generation. I want to fight to protect private property rights and ensure landowners have a robust bill of rights to ensure large corporations or public-private partnerships are not permitted to bully us out of our homes. I will fight for meaningful property tax relief so the government cannot tax us out of our homes. Furthermore, I will fight for fiscal transparency and accountability with our tax dollars. Waste must be removed from the state budget in order to pass meaningful property tax relief.
I am Pro-Life and believe all life is sacred from conception until natural death. I have supported Pro-Life organizations for decades and was a crisis pregnancy counselor at New Beginnings Pregnancy Center in Brenham. This is not a political position for me, but a moral one. We lose 50,000 lives to abortion each year in Texas. Our 27 smallest states add up to the population of 60 million. We have lost that many lives to abortion since Roe v. Wade. I will fight to protect the unborn in every way possible. Illegal immigration has placed a huge burden on our citizens and our counties. We need to protect and secure our border and support President Trump’s plan to build a wall. I am pro-2nd amendment and am proud to have received the highest candidate rating from the NRA and TSRA. I support our public school teachers and will fight to fix our broken school finance system so that our formulas reflect the actual cost of educating a child and we do not send our tax dollars out of our district. Our tax dollars must go back into the classroom. Teachers must be freed from the burdensome mandates that force them to spend too much time teaching to a test. My life has given me a perspective, the lens in which I see the world and make value judgments. Early in his life, my second born son faced a life-threatening disease and I fought to see him reach full health. My grandson was born 10 weeks early at only 2 pounds, 9 ounces. I saw him fight to live and watched our doctors and nurses work tirelessly to give him the chance to become the healthy boy he is today. Every time my oldest son deploys to areas of conflict and danger and leaves his family, I am reminded of the sacrifices required to enjoy our many freedoms. Living through these personal trials has given me a healthy perspective on life. I’m a follower of Jesus Christ. His principles have guided my life and served us well as we raised our children and grew our business. If elected to the Texas House, these are the principles I will take with me to help me prioritize between good, better, and best. I humbly ask for your vote on March 6 to represent you in Austin.
2018 Meet The Candidates Special Edition