Meet The Candidates: Sara McGee For Texas House District 132
Schools, housing, healthcare and a candidate who shows up.
It’s campaign season, and I’m kicking off a new series called Meet The Candidates. Over the next fourteen months, I’ll spotlight a handful of Democratic races each month, mainly in the Legislature and in Congress. These aren’t endorsements. They’re introductions, a way to understand who’s running, the districts they hope to represent, and what’s at stake for working people across Texas. We’ll start with House District 132 and Sara McGee.
Who is Sara McGee?
A lifelong Texan who grew up in Katy, raised two kids as a single mom, and clawed her way from bartending nights to running a hospital radiology department. Forty-one years in House District 132 means PTA lines, Sealy soccer fields, and neighbors who know her by name. She’s worked 70–80-hour weeks, learned the system from the inside, and she talks like someone who’s had to fix problems at 3 am.
She decided to run the day her Republican representative called her a liar to her face about the real harms of Texas’ abortion bans. Since then, she’s been a “for the people” candidate, fair capitalism, strong public schools, real healthcare access, and representation that actually answers emails. No corporate PAC leash, small-dollar donors, a heavy ground game, and a promise to be accessible. Translation: she’ll knock doors, hold town halls, listen first, and fight like hell for working Texans in HD-132.
The district.
House District 132 is a fast-growing, family-heavy suburban district. It’s racially and linguistically diverse, about 41% Anglo, 59% people of color (29% Hispanic, 15% Black, 15% Asian), and 37% speak a language other than English at home. Nearly half of adults hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, poverty runs well below the state average (8.6%), and a lot of folks are working professional/health/retail jobs with serious commute times.
Housing reveals why people feel the squeeze: two-thirds are homeowners, new construction dominates (41% built since 2010), the average home value is around $388k, and average rent is steep at ~$1,845. More than a third of households make $100k–$199k and another fifth top $200k, yet almost half of renters are cost-burdened, paying 35%+ of income on rent. Translation: this is a diverse, commuter-heavy, school-centered district where property taxes, classroom funding, healthcare access, and housing costs are a kitchen-table reality.
The Republican incumbent.
Mike Schofield (R-HD132), a possible lizard person and New Jersey native, spent 11 years as a senior advisor to Gov. Rick Perry, boasting that he was the governor’s “point man” on Texas’ strict photo voter ID law and on the “loser pays” tort-reform push.
The Texas Classroom Teachers Association rates him “Unfriendly” and lists him as voting against key anti-voucher and school-funding amendments in 2023. Schofield has long operated inside the Texans for Lawsuit Reform orbit.
Basically, he’s a dime-a-dozen Republican who works really hard for billionaires while his constituents are being priced out of their homes. And despite representing a district where housing costs, commuting, and public school quality are constant concerns, his legislative history is one of prioritizing business and legal interests, property protections, and limits on liability over some of the everyday financial pressures his constituents face.
In Sara McGee’s own words:
Below are some questions I asked McGee, based on previous reader polls, and how she answered.
Q: Do you support a statewide minimum wage increase to at least $15/hour?
Yes. Texans are struggling. Minimum wage was created to ensure that companies were not exploiting workers. Increases have been avoided for decades to allow the "free market" to work - it has failed. Texans are working 2-3 jobs just to make ends meet and that is inexcusable.
Q: Do you oppose school vouchers and efforts to privatize public education?
School vouchers, like our broken healthcare system, are yet another way that the GOP has devised to convert public tax payer funds into private profit. Adding a layer of profit to a public system has never improved it - it has only led to services that are more expensive and lower quality. The same thing will happen with education if we do not stop vouchers before they start.
Q: Should Texas guarantee free school meals to all K–12 students, regardless of income?
Absolutely. In the hierarchy of human needs, hunger is the absolute first need. You cannot expect children to be able to learn without proper nutrition first.
Q: Should Texas end tax breaks and regulatory loopholes for oil and gas companies, including exemptions from emissions reporting and waste disposal standards?
Regulatory loopholes - absolutely. There is nothing more important than our health and the health of future generations. For tax breaks, I would want to study the downstream effect on energy costs for ending them altogether - but there is definitely a balance that is not currently being accomplished.
Bonus Question: What does being a Democrat mean to you in 2026?
It means fighting for the GOOD. The GOP has become nothing but a 24/7 hate campaign to distract from the fact that all their policies accomplish is to hurt the working class and help the billionaires and it is exhausting.
The fight for HD132 is about mortgages, commutes, and whether your kid’s school has a nurse on Monday.
On one side, you’ve got a career insider who helped write the voter-ID playbook and cozies up to voucher politics. On the other hand, a hospital department head who’s spent two decades solving problems in real rooms with real people, and who jumped in only after seeing her neighbors hurt by laws written by men who don’t have to live with them.
This race is a clean test. Do we continue to reward those who serve donors, or should we send someone who serves the district? If you live in 132, please check your registration, find out your polling place, and consider bringing a friend. If you don’t, share this with someone who does. We don’t fix Texas in think pieces. We fix it by turning out, precinct by precinct, until the people writing the laws finally look and sound like the communities they represent.
You can learn more about Sara McGee on her website, and make sure you follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Bluesky.
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My curiosity is the fact how the incumbent still remains in his seat to this day. Best of luck. Honestly with the economy we have it should be $30 minimum wage.
Texas has too many carpet baggers running our Texas. Who claim to know Texas but they don’t. I 🙏🏼 that we get the blue wave that I have long waited for.