Houston, TX—Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after Texas Governor Greg Abbott added congressional redistricting to the special legislative session scheduled to begin on July 21.
Houston, TX—Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after winning re-election to Congress representing Texas’ Seventh Congressional District:
Houston, TX—Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07); Mini Timmaraju, President and CEO of Reproductive Freedom For All; Drucilla Tigner, Co-Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes; Houston OB/GYN Dr. Todd Ivey, M.D.; Houston OB/GYN Dr. Damla Karsan, M.D.; Community Health Worker Paula Saldaña; and Reproductive Rights Activist Olivia Julianna decried the deaths of pregnant Texas women, including Josseli Barnica in Houston, after doctors delayed emergency care as a result of Texas Senate Bill 8. State Representative Gene Wu, State Representative Ron Reynolds, Houston Council Member Abbie Kamin, Southside Place Mayor Andy Chan, and other Houston OB/GYNs also joined the speakers in support of the Texas women who have lost their lives and in opposition to Texas’ extreme laws.
Houston TX—Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after ProPublica investigative reporting found that at least two pregnant women, including Josseli Barnica in Houston, died after doctors delayed emergency care as a result of S.B. 8.
Houston, TX–Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after President Joe Biden announced that he will not seek re-election:
Houston, TX–Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after winning the 2024 Democratic Primary for Texas’ Seventh Congressional District.
Houston, TX–Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher’s (TX-07) Political Director, Collin Steele, released the following statement in response to reports that text messages were sent to voters in Texas’ Seventh Congressional District impersonating Congresswoman Fletcher.
Houston, TX–Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher’s (TX-07) Political Director, Collin Steele, released the following statement in response to reports that text messages were sent to voters in Texas’ Seventh Congressional District impersonating Congresswoman Fletcher.
Houston, TX–Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released her first television advertisement of the election cycle, “Do Something.” The 30-second spot will run on Houston cable stations through Election Day on March 5 as part of a six-figure buy.
Houston, TX–Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher’s re-election campaign announced new endorsements from diverse stakeholders for the 2024 election cycle.
Houston, TX–Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) announced that current and former House Democratic Leaders have endorsed her for re-election in 2024.
Houston, TX–Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) announced additional endorsements for the 2024 election cycle.
Houston, TX – This weekend, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) filed for re-election to Congress in 2024 with the support and endorsement of leaders throughout the greater Houston area she represents as well as national organizations.
Fletcher has had a productive four years in Congress, and she deserves two more.
Houston, TX—Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement following the Democratic primary election:
U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, once seen as one of the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress, won her first re-election battle in a one-time Republican stronghold in west Houston.
On the final Saturday before Election Day, U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher corralled campaign volunteers ahead of one of their final text- and phone-banking sessions. The freshman Democrat’s campaign has relied heavily on those efforts amid the coronavirus pandemic, and campaign officials said Saturday that they’d sent more than a half-million texts and placed the same number of calls to potential voters.
Last week, Representative Lizzie Fletcher showed off the county’s main voting hub near the Astrodome and its even larger successor, NRG Stadium, pointing to the rows of drop-off tents set up in its sprawling parking lot and explaining why turnout in the city was boding well for Mr. Biden. “The divisive nature of the politics that we’re seeing in the Trump era — that’s a hallmark of his style — is not our style here,” said Ms. Fletcher, a Democrat who in 2018 captured a long-held Republican seat representing some of Houston’s toniest neighborhoods, precincts where Biden signs are far more common than Trump signs.
Fletcher, a Houston Democrat who unseated Republican John Culberson in 2018, entered her first re-election cycle widely viewed as one of the country’s most vulnerable House members. Now in the homestretch, she expressed confidence in winning another term in the once-reliably Republican district. “I hear from Republicans in the middle that they feel politically homeless right now,” Fletcher said. “What they want is responsible governance and what they see is that is what Democrats are doing.”
U.S. Representative Lizzie Fletcher, a Democrat running for re-election in Houston, the capital of the U.S. oil industry, said in a statement that Biden’s comments “fail to address the complexity of our energy needs and plan for our future.”
Manrique de Henning — who immigrated to the U.S. nearly two decades ago and runs the nonprofit Saludos Connection to help people from her home country of Venezuela — said she was also grateful to see the administration’s stance on the conflict there, which led to more international aid. In the U.S., Manrique de Henning considers herself center-left: She said she'll vote for congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, a Houston Democrat, but she's just not sure about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Lizzie Fletcher, una demócrata de 45 años, obtuvo una de las victorias más simbólicas para los demócratas hace dos años en este distrito, la primera para su partido en 52 años. Simbólica porque el congresista del GOP que inició esa hegemonía de medio siglo era el patriarca de la dinastía que quizá es uno de los mayores símbolos del orgullo republicano texano: George H. W. Bush. Fletcher, abogada de profesión, se enfrenta al republicano Wesley Hunt, un afroamericano y veterano, ya retirado del Ejército.
Two years after her first-ever run for public office resulted in the defeat of a nine-term Republican incumbent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher faces re-election with a solid record of accomplishment and a reputation for working across the aisle and serving constituents.
U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher is out with her first television ad for her re-election campaign in Houston’s 7th Congressional District. In the new ad that starts airing on TV this week, the Democrat touts her record of supporting energy sector jobs and “working with both parties” to get things done in Washington.
