Texans Uniting for Reform & Freedom (TURF) compiled this Voter Guide to gauge candidates’ positions on toll roads, transportation policy (including accountability and transparency), and property rights. Based on each candidate’s answers to our survey, they received a grade.
NOTE: This guide includes contested races (so those with no opponent do not appear in this guide).*It also includes candidates who returned our survey in writing (filled out by the candidate him or herself). You can’t trust what they tell you until they’re willing to put it in writing (and even then we have trouble holding them to it!). Since so many candidates never fill out our survey, we also did our own research on some of these key races and also provide a ‘recommended list,’ not to be confused with Texans for Toll-free Highways’ actual endorsements based on its findings (NOT based on commitments made by the candidates in writing). So be forewarned, those candidates are considered the best option, but in no way implies they’ve signed onto our legislative agenda. The below candidates will appear on the General Election Ballot.
See the 2021 Texas TURF Report Card for the grade of every incumbent state legislator.
TURF – 2022 General Election Voter Guide
Early Voting: October 24 – November 4
Election Day: Tuesday, November 8
Texans for Toll-free Highways Endorsements – 2022 Primary Election
U.S. Congress
House –
CD 21 –
Chip Roy
Texas State
Senate –
SD 2 –
Bob Hall
SD 11 –
Mayes Middleton
House –
HD 2 –
Bryan Slaton
HD 6 –
Matt Schaefer
HD 25 –
Cody Vasut
HD 66 –
Matt Shaheen
HD 73 –
Carrie Isaac
HD 94 –
Tony Tinderholt
HD 122 –
Mark Dorazio
HD 136 –
Michelle Evans
US Congress
House –
CD 3 –
Keith Self – A
CD 21 –
Chip Roy – A+
CD 22 –
Troy Nehls – (recommended)
CD 24 –
Beth Van Duyne – (recommended)
CD 25 –
Roger Williams – (recommended)
CD 34 –
Mayra Flores – (recommended)
CD 36 –
Brian Babin (recommended)
Texas State
Governor –
Greg Abbott (recommended – He has kept toll proliferation at bay)
Beto O-Rourke –
Lt. Governor –
Dan Patrick (recommended)
Attorney General –
Ken Paxton (recommended)
Land Commissioner –
Dawn Buckingham – A
Ag Commissioner –
Sid Miller – B
Railroad Commissioner –
Wayne Christian – A
Senate –
SD 1 –
Bryan Hughes – B
SD 2 –
Bob Hall – A+
SD 11 –
Mayes Middleton – A
SD 18 –
Lois Kolkhorst – B
SD 19 –
Robert Garza (recommended)
SD 31 –
Kevin Sparks (recommended)
House –
HD 6 –
Matt Schaefer – A
HD 10 –
Brian Harrison (recommended)
HD 19 –
Ellen Troxclair – A
HD 23 –
Patrick Gurski – C
HD 25 –
Cody Vasut – B
HD 62 –
Reggie Smith – B-
HD 66 –
Matt Shaheen – A
HD 73 –
Carrie Isaac – A (Signed Pledge)
HD 85 –
Stan Kitzman – A
HD 94 –
Tony Tinderholt – B+
HD 118 –
John Lujan – B (recommended)
HD 122 –
Mark Dorazio – A (Signed Pledge)
Local Races –
Bexar County Judge –
Peter Sakai – D (He has bought into the anti-car agenda of Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Sec of Transportation Pete Buttigieg)
Trish DeBerry – F (toll road queen with so many conflicts of interest even the San Antonio Express News told her to recuse herself from just about every vote as a commissioner)
Edgar Coyle – Libertarian (recommended)
Bexar County Commissioner –
Grant Moody (recommended)
Brazos County
Commissioner, Precinct 4 –
Timothy Delasandro– A+
Proposition B –
NO (This would increase drivers’ vehicle registration fee by $10 and give it to the Regional Mobility Authority, which is a toll entity. If you don’t want toll roads in Brazos County, vote ‘No’ on this or you’ll have a new toll bureaucracy that has eternal life through this vehicle registration fee hike whether or not they ever collect enough tolls to stay afloat!)