About Marc

Marc LaHood was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Texas Military Institute, Trinity University, and Saint Mary’s University Law School in 2007. He primarily practices state and federal criminal defense and has represented clients across the great state of Texas.

Marc has tried felony jury trials in both state and federal courts and consistently earns accolades for his work, including “Best of San Antonio” from the San Antonio Current.

While there has been much tragedy in Marc and his family’s lives, it has created in him a passion to protect others, serve the common good, and confront wrongdoing and evil wherever it may reside. His life experiences have molded him into a fighter for his conservative values, his family, and his faith.

Marc’s mother, Norma, was born in Laredo, Texas. Her family moved to the South Side of San Antonio after her father was discharged from the US Army Air Corps after serving in World War II. Both of Norma’s brothers, Eddie and Louis, would go on to serve in the US Navy during Vietnam. Soon after Eddie began self-medicating and became addicted to heroin, eventually dying in prison from his struggles with drugs. Louis later committed suicide in 1979.

On August 15, 1996, tragedy would upend Marc’s family as carjackers followed his eldest brother, Mike Jr., and his girlfriend back to their home. As the robber approached, Mike confronted him as his girlfriend fled. Sadly, Mike Jr. was shot and killed instantly in the family driveway. Just a year later, Marc’s best friend’s father, Eddie Garcia, was murdered outside his office.

In 2015, Marc met his future wife, Erica, and eldest daughter, Emily. They helped to heal his heart and soul and brought him back to the Church. The two were married in 2017. He adopted his eldest child, Emily, that same year.

The couple now has four children together, three of whom are under four. Ultimately, the love of his family and the desire to provide a safer, more prosperous future for them is at the core of Marc’s desire to serve in public office.

This led Marc to run for Bexar County District Attorney in 2022. After securing the Republican nomination in the primary with over 60% of the vote, Marc took on Soros-funded liberal incumbent Joe Gonzales in the general election. While Marc earned more votes countywide than any other Republican, he fell short of unseating Gonzales. Marc was proud to give voters a choice at the ballot box between law and order and the failed policies of left-wing criminal justice “reform.”

Marc believes that we are at a crisis point in our state and nation, and that now is the time for bold, unapologetic conservative leadership in government. We cannot afford to elect leaders any longer that are not prepared to take on the major issues of our times and are not prepared to defend and protect the America, and Texas, we love.

About Marc

Marc LaHood was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Texas Military Institute, Trinity University, and Saint Mary’s University Law School in 2007. He primarily practices state and federal criminal defense and has represented clients across the great state of Texas.

Marc has tried felony jury trials in both state and federal courts and consistently earns accolades for his work, including “Best of San Antonio” from the San Antonio Current.

While there has been much tragedy in Marc and his family’s lives, it has created in him a passion to protect others, serve the common good, and confront wrongdoing and evil wherever it may reside. His life experiences have molded him into a fighter for his conservative values, his family, and his faith.

Marc’s mother, Norma, was born in Laredo, Texas. Her family moved to the South Side of San Antonio after her father was discharged from the US Army Air Corps after serving in World War II. Both of Norma’s brothers, Eddie and Louis, would go on to serve in the US Navy during Vietnam. Soon after Eddie began self-medicating and became addicted to heroin, eventually dying in prison from his struggles with drugs. Louis later committed suicide in 1979.

On August 15, 1996, tragedy would upend Marc’s family as carjackers followed his eldest brother, Mike Jr., and his girlfriend back to their home. As the robber approached, Mike confronted him as his girlfriend fled. Sadly, Mike Jr. was shot and killed instantly in the family driveway. Just a year later, Marc’s best friend’s father, Eddie Garcia, was murdered outside his office.

In 2015, Marc met his future wife, Erica, and eldest daughter, Emily. They helped to heal his heart and soul and brought him back to the Church. The two were married in 2017. He adopted his eldest child, Emily, that same year.

The couple now has four children together, three of whom are under four. Ultimately, the love of his family and the desire to provide a safer, more prosperous future for them is at the core of Marc’s desire to serve in public office.

This led Marc to run for Bexar County District Attorney in 2022. After securing the Republican nomination in the primary with over 60% of the vote, Marc took on Soros-funded liberal incumbent Joe Gonzales in the general election. While Marc earned more votes countywide than any other Republican, he fell short of unseating Gonzales. Marc was proud to give voters a choice at the ballot box between law and order and the failed policies of left-wing criminal justice “reform.”

Marc believes that we are at a crisis point in our state and nation, and that now is the time for bold, unapologetic conservative leadership in government. We cannot afford to elect leaders any longer that are not prepared to take on the major issues of our times and are not prepared to defend and protect the America, and Texas, we love.

About Marc

Marc LaHood was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Texas Military Institute, Trinity University, and Saint Mary’s University Law School in 2007. He primarily practices state and federal criminal defense and has represented clients across the great state of Texas.

Marc has tried felony jury trials in both state and federal courts and consistently earns accolades for his work, including “Best of San Antonio” from the San Antonio Current.

While there has been much tragedy in Marc and his family’s lives, it has created in him a passion to protect others, serve the common good, and confront wrongdoing and evil wherever it may reside. His life experiences have molded him into a fighter for his conservative values, his family, and his faith.

Marc’s mother, Norma, was born in Laredo, Texas. Her family moved to the South Side of San Antonio after her father was discharged from the US Army Air Corps after serving in World War II. Both of Norma’s brothers, Eddie and Louis, would go on to serve in the US Navy during Vietnam. Soon after Eddie began self-medicating and became addicted to heroin, eventually dying in prison from his struggles with drugs. Louis later committed suicide in 1979.

On August 15, 1996, tragedy would upend Marc’s family as carjackers followed his eldest brother, Mike Jr., and his girlfriend back to their home. As the robber approached, Mike confronted him as his girlfriend fled. Sadly, Mike Jr. was shot and killed instantly in the family driveway. Just a year later, Marc’s best friend’s father, Eddie Garcia, was murdered outside his office.

In 2015, Marc met his future wife, Erica, and eldest daughter, Emily. They helped to heal his heart and soul and brought him back to the Church. The two were married in 2017. He adopted his eldest child, Emily, that same year.

The couple now has four children together, three of whom are under four. Ultimately, the love of his family and the desire to provide a safer, more prosperous future for them is at the core of Marc’s desire to serve in public office.

This led Marc to run for Bexar County District Attorney in 2022. After securing the Republican nomination in the primary with over 60% of the vote, Marc took on Soros-funded liberal incumbent Joe Gonzales in the general election. While Marc earned more votes countywide than any other Republican, he fell short of unseating Gonzales. Marc was proud to give voters a choice at the ballot box between law and order and the failed policies of left-wing criminal justice “reform.”

Marc believes that we are at a crisis point in our state and nation, and that now is the time for bold, unapologetic conservative leadership in government. We cannot afford to elect leaders any longer that are not prepared to take on the major issues of our times and are not prepared to defend and protect the America, and Texas, we love.

The Issues

Despite the best efforts of our Governor to secure our border, the decades of empty promises from Republicans in D.C. and the outright encouragement of lawlessness on our border by the Democrats have created a once-in-a-generation crisis that will define the future of our nation.

What happens at our border has real impacts on the lives and livelihoods of the residents of HD 121 and all of Bexar County. Whether its increased crime, dangerous drugs like fentanyl flooding our streets, or horrific human trafficking, the chaos on our border threatens people and property across Texas.

Last session, transformational state border legislation, House Bill 20, was killed on floor of the Texas House by Democrats and their allies. This bill would have started a permanent Border Protection Unit for continuous policing of the border, created a state felony offense for entering Texas by trespass, and enabled the state to deport illegal immigrants immediately on its own authority.

And while HB 20 had 56 Republicans signed on as joint- or co-authors, our current state representative Steve Allison was not one of them. As your next state representative, I will immediately file HB 20 again and fight to pass this critical legislation into law.

The time for half-measures on solving our border crisis is over. Texas must lead.

Over the last ten years, the Texas legislature has spent a lot of state tax dollars to buy-down local property taxes or provide larger exemptions. These tax swaps and exemptions, while well-intentioned, have not been enough to transform the lives of property owners in HD 121 and across Texas.

If you think enough has been done, let me just ask you: in the last ten years, have your property taxes risen faster than inflation? The answer is undoubtedly yes.

While our current state representative Steve Allison has never been the lead author on a property tax bill that has passed into law, I am committed two take on our broken, runaway system of property taxes and make it one of my top focuses until we get the job done.

First, the legislature came to Austin in 2023 with a historic $33 billion surplus. Property owners only saw about $12 billion of that in relief. That’s not good enough. I will not stop until we have completely bought-down local school property taxes, which account for about half of the average tax bill.

Second, our system of appraisal is largely responsible for what is happening to property owners and we must address it once and for all. I am tired of property owners being treated hostilely by their Appraisal District and the Appraisal Review Board…it’s time we directly elected these positions and applied political pressure to the appraisal process.

No one cares more for your child or about your child than you do. As a parent, I know firsthand the love we have for our children. While we have many great schools in HD 121, not every family and not every child is fortunate enough to have real educational opportunities that can end generational poverty and transform lives.

To solve this, I believe that parents are the solution, not the problem. We must empower parents to make the absolute best education decisions for their child—there is no one-size-fits-all school or environment.

In 2023, our current state representative Steve Allison sided with Democrats and passed an amendment preventing your tax dollars from being given back to you to decide what school is best for your child.

I don’t know better than you. Especially when it comes to your child.

As your state representative, I will put parents in the driver’s seat and ensure that you are empowered to do what is right for your child.

With increasingly competitive elections in Texas, the issue of voter fraud is critical to ensuring that every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is identified and the person, or persons, behind it are held accountable.

In 2021, the legislature passed a strong election integrity bill that made is harder to cheat and easier to vote. Unbelievably, our current state representative Steve Allison offered and secured passage of an amendment that lowered the criminal penalty for Illegal Voting from a felony to a misdemeanor.

When the legislature tried to fix Allison’s mess in 2023, Allison told his colleagues that Attorney General Ken Paxton asked him to offer the amendment in 2021 to weaken the bill. Paxton immediately came out strong, correcting the record and rebuking Allison for trying to cover his backside.

Every illegal vote cancels the lawful vote of an American citizen. We cannot tolerate interference in our political system and its time that we had a representative in HD 121 who was willing to throw the book at these fraudsters, not give them a glorified traffic ticket!

I am here today by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and I am proud of the impact our Judeo-Christian values have made in shaping western civilization and American democracy.

Unfortunately, those values are under assault at every turn. Whether it’s the policies of the Democratic Party or their allies in the news media and academia, our worldview and our principles are being attacked like never before. We are even seeing woke culture infect once-respected American corporations like Disney.

The stakes are high and we cannot afford a state representative who doesn’t understand the fight we’re in. Sadly, our current state representative Steve Allison has demonstrated repeatedly that he isn’t up to the task of fighting and winning the war for our culture.

In 2021, Allison authored a bill amending the classroom instruction for every Texas student in our public schools on “positive character traits.” What did Allison want to add? "The importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Allison is literally using the language of the Left to shape the minds of millions of Texas schoolchildren.

Need another example? After the legislature voted in 2023 to end DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) Offices at our publicly-funded universities and colleges, Allison voted against two amendments that would strike a provision of the bill that unbelievably protected the taxpayer-funded jobs of the woke bureaucrats in these left-wing propaganda departments!

Thankfully, the Texas Senate removed these provisions—but no thanks to Steve Allison.

The truth is, he just doesn’t get it. No true conservative would promote and protect woke culture incubators in our systems of education. And as your next state representative, I never will. I’ll take the fight to the Left for our values!

I am running for HD 121 because I believe that our state and nation need bold and selfless public servants now more than ever. One of the signs that someone has been in office too long is when they lose sight of why they are there and begin to use their power to serve themselves, instead of serving the public.

Our current state representative Steve Allison has lost sight of why he’s there. At a time when HD 121 families are feeling the impact of Biden’s runaway inflation and the destruction of their dollar, Allison voted to increase his office budget by thousands of dollars per month and to increase his own pension significantly.

That’s not the kind of public servant I am going to be. I am running because I care deeply about the future we leave to our children, not to pad my retirement or pump up my office budget.

You can trust me to be a strong, faithful steward of your tax dollars—on every vote!

As someone who has been deeply touched by the scourge of drugs and violent crime in our society, I am fully committed to protecting the residents of HD 121 and their property.
 
I ran for District Attorney because I truly believe that our current law enforcement officials in Bexar County are sacrificing the people they represent and their rights for the rights of criminals. Or worse yet, to settle some score from the past that has nothing to do with crime committed today.
 
As your next state representative, I will close loops that District Attorneys exploit under the ridiculous guise of “prosecutorial discretion” and I will make sure that not one state dollar flows to a District Attorney, or Sheriff, who is unwilling to fully carry out the laws of this state.

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