Colin Allred on Government Reform

Litigated for voting rights & challenged voter restrictions

A: In 2014, I was the Dallas/Fort Worth Voter Protection Director for the Wendy Davis campaign. In that role, I oversaw the voter registration efforts of hundreds of volunteers and a comprehensive poll watcher program that helped thousands of North Texans vote who might not have been able to otherwise. As a voting rights litigator, I have been a part of lawsuits that have challenged restrictions to the right to vote across this country. As an appointee in the Obama Administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, I helped protect and expand critical programs like FHA backed mortgage assistance and Section 8 vouchers, and efforts to end housing discrimination against the formerly incarcerated.

PVS:Regulate campaign donations from corporations.

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