Tawana Cadien
CD10 remains the strange barbell-like district that stretches from Austin to Houston that it has been since the DeLay re-redistricting of 2003; it was part of the Republicans’ previous failed strategy of defenestrating Rep. Lloyd Doggett. Originally seen as too Republican for a Democrat to bother contesting, it had achieved near-swing status by 2008 thanks to a dynamic and fast-growing population. The first Democrat to take a crack at this decade’s version of CD10 is Beaumont native and Prairie View graduate Tawana Cadien. Cadien is a nurse and RN educator, which in itself makes her stand out – I know of numerous doctors in various levels of government, but offhand I can’t think of any nurses. Here’s the interview:
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