Dan Huberty

Daniel G. Huberty
Texas State Representative from District 127 (Harris County)
Assumed office
January 11, 2011
Preceded by Joe Crabb
Personal details
Born (1968-06-21) June 21, 1968
Parma, Ohio
Nationality American
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Janet Marie Etterman Huberty
Children Three children
Residence Humble, Texas
Alma mater

Cleveland State University

University of Phoenix
Occupation Businessman

Daniel G. Huberty (June 21, 1968)[1] is an American businessman. He is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. Since 2011, he has represented District 127 in Harris County.[2]

Huberty ran unopposed for his third term in the state House in the general election on November 4, 2014.[1] and won again for his fourth term in the Republican primary held on March 1, 2016.[3]

Background

Huberty is a native of Parma, Ohio, a suburb south of Cleveland. In 1991, he received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Cleveland State University in downtown Cleveland. In 1998, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix. Huberty currently serves as President of MVP REIT, a real estate investment trust for parking lots. Previously he was an executive with a parking company, and before that in a natural gas fueling company.

Huberty and his wife, the former Janet Marie Etterman, have three children. They are members of the Saint Martha's Catholic Church parish in Kingwood/Porter, Texas.[4]

Political life

From 2006 to 2010, Huberty was an elected trustee of the nonpartisan Humble Independent School District. He was the board president from 2009 to 2010.[1]

When Republican Representative Joe Crabb declined to seek reelection in 2010, Huberty and three others entered the primary election to choose a successor. Huberty nearly won with 7,465 votes (48.8 percent). He was forced into a runoff election with anesthesiologist Susan Dobbs Curling (born 1957) of Kingwood, another Houston suburb, who received 3,063 votes (20 percent). Two other candidates, businesswoman Addie Sturgeon Wiseman (born 1963) and physician Martin C. Basaldua (born 1951), also of Humble, held the remaining 31.3 percent of the vote.[5] Huberty then defeated Curling.[6] In the general election, Huberty defeated the Democrat Joe A. Montemayor, 37,725 (75.3 percent) to 12,406 (24.7 percent).[7]

In the 2012 general election, Huberty defeated the Democrat Cody D. Pogue, an organizer in 2010 for former mayor of Houston, Bill White, who ran for governor against Rick Perry.[8] Huberty received 45,813 votes to Pogue's 19,435.[9]

In 2016, Huberty was challenged in the Republican primary by Mitchell Bosworth. Huberty eventually defeated Bosworth, 78% to 22%. Huberty defeated challengers from the Libertarian Party and Green Party in the 2016 General Election, taking 82% of the vote.[10]

Huberty serves on the Pension and Public Education committees.[1]  He is now the Chairman of Public Education committee.[11]

Huberty opposes school voucher or "school choice" programs which would finance private schools with state funds without financial or educational accountability, a position for which he has been criticized by right-wing stakeholders.[12]

Legislative voting record

Representative Huberty in 2013 supported a ban on abortion after twenty weeks of gestation; the measure passed the House, 96-49. He also voted for companion legislation to increase medical and licensing requirements of abortion providers,[13] a move which opponents said could lead to the closure of many abortion clinics in the state. These issues brought forth an unsuccessful filibuster in the Texas State Senate by Wendy R. Davis of Fort Worth, who in 2014 is the Democratic nominee for governor against the Republican Greg Abbott.[14] In 2011, Huberty supported two other anti-abortion measures. One forbids state funding of agencies which perform abortions. The other requires that a woman undergo a sonogram before procuring an abortion. This legislation is based on the view that a woman could change her mind about an abortion once she witnesses the development of the unborn child through the latest technology.[13]

Huberty supported a bill relating to unlawful employment practices regarding discrimination in payment of compensation, which passed the Legislature but was vetoed by Governor Perry.[15]

In 2017, Huberty, chairman of the House Education Committee, declared dead for the next two years a conservative proposal to establish school vouchers in Texas.[16] As Huberty had predicted the House on April 6 rejected a voucher proposal, 103-44.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Dan Huberty's Biography". votesmart.org. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Dan Huberty". Texas Legislative Reference Library. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dan Huberty - Ballotpedia". ballotpedia.org. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  4. ↑ "State Rep. Dan Huberty District 127 (R-Houston)". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Republican primary election returns, March 2010 (House District 127)". Texas Secretary of State. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Republican runoff election returns, April 2010 (House District 127)". Texas Secretary of State. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  7. ↑ "General election returns, November 2, 2010 (House District 127)". Texas Secretary of State. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Cody D. Pogue". intelius.com. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  9. ↑ "General election returns, November 6, 2012 (House District 127)". Texas Secretary of State. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Texas House District 127". Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune Company. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  11. ↑ "Huberty Named Chairman of Public Education Committee". Dan Huberty. 2017-02-09. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  12. ↑ "House education leaders wont budge onn school finace, private school choice". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  13. 1 2 "Dan Huberty's Voting Records". votesmart.org.
  14. ↑ M. Fernandez (June 25, 2013). "Filibuster in Texas Senate Tries to Halt Abortion Bill". The New York Times. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Legislative Session: 83 (R) Relating to unlawful employment practices regarding discrimination in payment of compensation". Texas Legislature Online. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
  16. ↑ "House ed panel chairman declares vouchers dead", San Antonio Express-News, March 1, 2017, p. 1.
Political offices
Texas House of Representatives
Preceded by
Joe Crabb		 Texas State Representative from District 127 (Harris County)

Daniel G. "Dan" Huberty
2011–

Succeeded by
Incumbent
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