Meet Jessica Forgy: Your Advocate for Texas's 14th Congressional District

I have served previously as a quiet public servant in the Brazoria County Health Department. I care deeply that the people of Texas's 14th Congressional District have a Congressional Representative who will listen to their voices, care for their concerns, and write laws and vote on legislation that empowers them to live their best lives.

I care deeply for our Constitution and how it lines out what each portion of government is responsible for, and how they hold each Co-Equal Branch accountable within our system of Checks and Balances.

I will do my best so that the people of Texas's 14th Congressional District will have access to Healthcare options that protect and empower them. 

I will fight for funding and resources for the organizations that work for the people and help keep us safe such as NOAA, the NHC, the NWS, the CDC and FDA, and that the grants needed to run local services continue to be funded such as local Flooding Risk Reduction Plans, Health Departments, and Housing among others. The lack of a new FEMA plan, and a FEMA run without doing drills, and delays in dispersing funds to other disasters this year make me especially worried this Hurricane Season, not just for my district, but for everyone in an area at risk to Hurricanes.

I am concerned by our National Deficit, and how the current administration including our Representatives Weber, and Senators Cruz and Cornyn have voted on legislation that will increase that deficit by not re-authorizing taxation to the top 5% of earners in the country and corporations, which have not trickled down their previous tax credit earnings to the people and groups below them. Funding our country does need to take an examination of the departments by using auditors to help identify areas of mis-appropriation, and areas where the government services can be streamlined and made more accessible to ordinary citizens. This can be done without cutting essential services such as Medicaid, and SNAP, and NIH funding, without cutting USAID and PEPFAR. We need to look at responsible levying of taxes to have sufficient revenue to run the government that works for all people. And we may need to reconsider the corporate subsidies that we pay out. 

I am running as a Republican, but a Republican that hails back to our beginning with President Lincoln, as the Northern States stood up and demanded that Slavery be abolished, and that all men have rights be acknowledged. My philosophy on government combines my personal philosophy of the importance of being a servant, and helping the Least of These, and what President Lincoln stated in the Fragment on Government in July 1, 1854

"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individual capacities.

In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions.

The first—that in relation to wrongs—embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and non-performance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.

From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government."