Bonnie Abadie

Bonnie Abadie earned a bachelor's degree in marketing from Louisiana State University. Her career experience includes working as a small business owner, managing North Dallas Martial Arts, Inc. and Paradise on Palestine, LLC.[1]

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) puts out a list of priorities decided upon by representatives to the state convention. These should be every legislator's top list of priorities and they will be mine.My top priority is education reform and this includes repealing the voucher bill. For starters, I don't trust the lege to not start requiring private and homeschool families to be subject to state mandated curriculum and testing.

State testing needs to be eliminated. School districts should go back to a classical education, keeping politics out of the classroom (with the exception of a few history and government classes). We also need to get back to teaching with pencil, pen, paper, and textbooks. Research has proven that writing notes vs typing them, leads to better retention. School districts should create their curriculum and then give unit and end of course exams to determine mastery.President Trump started the year off with a bang and created the DOGE committee to uncover wasteful spending within the government. I feel every state should do this along with municipalities to determine the wasteful government spending. I also think bond issuance has gotten out of control and we need to have a way for cities and school districts to set aside funds for capital improvement projects to eliminate unnecessary interest payments on these exorbitant bonds. Tax payers are not an open wallet and government needs to learn to live within it's means. Priority FOUR will be to examine and audit the budget.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Having run for school board three times, education is what I'm most passionate about.