12 Facts About Pete Flores

Pete Flores previously represented District 19 in the Texas Senate from 2018 to 2021.

Pete Flores retired as a Colonel Game Warden for Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Pete Flores is a former leader of Texas Parks and Wildlife's statewide law enforcement division.

Pete Flores was the first Hispanic to hold that position.

Pete Flores served out the remaining two years and three months of a term formerly held by Uresti.

Pete Flores was endorsed by US Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, Governor Greg Abbott, and Lt.

Pete Flores lost to Democratic nominee Roland Gutierrez by three points.

Pete Flores believes that Texas taxpayers are overtaxed and the current tax rates are unsustainable.

Pete Flores wants to change the way property is being appraised.

Pete Flores wants a uniform methodology of appraisal that is consistent throughout Texas, instead of having 254 different counties using 254 different ways, limiting the role of individual chief appraisers in the each county.

Pete Flores wants the appraisers to be accountable to the voters.

Pete Flores wants the members of the board of appraisal districts to be voted in office, instead of appointed by taxing entities, making them directly accountable to the voters, removing the buffer that separates the taxing entities and the voters that currently exists.