Michael Cooper
Democratic Candidate for Governor
Cooper/Photo by Campaign
Question: What is your age?
Answer: 55
Q: What is your educational background? Please list any degrees or certificates earned and any institutions attended.
A: Lamar University - Bachelors - Majored in Business and minored in Social Studies- Masters in Psychology- GCU- half way through PHD in Education- GCU - Grand Canyon University
Q: What is your occupation?
A: Retired Automotive Executive - 30 years Minority Dealer Candidate for General Motors Dealership
Q: If you are a business owner, please list the business or businesses that you own. (If this question is not applicable, please note that below.)
A: I do not own - But I Pastor and Founder of THE CHURCH OF I AM
Q: Please list any civic boards or commissions (non-profit, government, union, political, etc.) on which you have served as a board member or equivalent.
A: CHAMPION OAKS RANCH - board Member - President- Local NAACP - Board member Texas Work Force Commission - President of Get On The Bus With Us - Youth Mentor Group- Member 100 Black Men
Q: Have you previously held or do you currently hold any elected office? If so, what office(s)?
A: Elected as President of the LOCAL NAACP
Q: If your campaign has any online campaign resources where voters can learn more about you, such as social media accounts or a website, please list them below.
A: ROKU - Thizz.tv - Michael Cooper Chanel - www.cooper2022.com all media outlets linked from that page.
Q: Why did you decide to run for this office in 2022?
A: Original to fix and repair the education system in Texas. We need more vocational and trade schools. We need to stop standardized testing. I will grow our own teachers. I have a plan for our Healthcare system, called - Texas Medical Insurance. I will fix the Grid and make it better than the Federal level. I will work up and down the ballot to get good judges locally and good judges elected to the Texas Supreme Court to fix the criminal Justice system in Texas.
Q: If elected, what will be your top three priorities in office?
A: Fix Education- Health Care - Texas Economics ( Jobs and pay checks) as we get all Texans vaccinated to open the State properly.
Q: What is an issue you believe has gone overlooked in your race and how will you address it if elected?
A: We have to many rich politicians representing poor and minority people which are the majority of people in Texas. We need a Governor that understands the working man and women as I have had to work hard pulling myself up by my own boot straps. We need to stop looking for rich politicians to fight the common persons battle of better and higher minimum wage, better health care , education and delete systematic racism in our State.
Q: Why are you the best candidate for voters to support for this position?
A: I have been a proven leader of people and major businesses for over 30 years in the most essential and villa tile businesses there are. I have managed billion dollar budgets and maximized incomes of every departments I have managed. Professional politicians mostly get in office and jump to the next office without being judged or accomplishing much without being held accountable if they have millions to buy votes. I am the only candidate that has been successful a civilian working for a fortune too 500 industry that contribute trillions of dollars to the GDP. I am a proven servant leader. As the President of the Southeast Texas Automotive Dealers Association, I helped secure the naming rights of the Toyota Center. It is the home of the Houston Rockets. I can and have gotten the job done. Texas needs creative - progressive and intelligent people like myself running it. It is not complicated. We need common sense leadership. We have to work with the Republicans as I have proven I can. We do not have all the votes in the Texas House and the Senate. Threatening legislators is not the way. I grew up between 3 Sundown towns and I have been very successful in doing business as one of the only Black businessmen at my level in Southeast Texas.