Chip Roy

by basically uh putting a tiered system in place so there's points so if you have a you know a dangerous felony that you're you're committing and you got three strikes of those you're out that's permanent but if you're if it's a low-level misdemeanor that would be a quarter point or a half point uh frankly i mean i think it's it's giving in a way that should get a a significant amount of support but the goal here is to re-establish a framework

by which there is a legislative requirement that you put these guys in jail and don't let them out and stand in the way of judges or DAs who are not prosecuting or giving them sentences that would keep them off the streets.

So I try to take away the excuses, if that makes sense, by restructuring the regime to make sure criminals stay in jail.

Absolutely, and it's the first order of government, right?

And, you know, look, people ask me, why are you running for attorney general?

It's because I believe that the state of Texas is under attack.

And I won't go through the entire list of things, but border, obviously, and the issue that we've been dealing with out there, thank God we've got President Trump, but the open border was destructive to Texas.

It was also putting criminals on our streets, putting gang members on our streets, endangering our people.

In addition to the March of Islam across Texas and other issues that we're dealing with, the issue of crime on our streets is a big one.

And, you know, Texas is known for law and order and justice.

But if you look at what we've been dealing with in Houston and Dallas and Austin and San Antonio with these DAs and these judges that are leaving the criminals on the streets, you see what happens.

And what the president did, he demonstrated that a strong law and order and presence of our law enforcement makes an enormous difference.

And that's not rocket science.

It's just common sense.

But it takes courage and leadership to stand against that.

you know, the woke leftists, the Marxists, who are totally fine with us being in danger because they say that somehow it is, you know, inappropriate or racist to say that we need to have law enforcement on the streets.

But the funny thing is, when you talk to Hispanic Texans, Black Texans, people of all walks of life, they all want to have...

So that's the first order of business of government.

As Attorney General, I'll be working hard to do that, to secure the border, to put criminals behind bars, to work with local law enforcement to do it, to stop these judges, to stop these activist DAs, who, by the way, are well-funded.

This is one last important point.