Twenty-five years as a felony prosecutor — family violence, sexual assault, capital murder in the Bexar County DA's office, then four years as deputy chief of the Texas Attorney General's human-trafficking section. She says the Hays County DA's office needs someone who has actually tried the hardest cases, and that it should answer to the public, not a party.
She refused to run in either primary and instead collected petition signatures to get on the ballot as an independent — "justice should be independent," she says. After leaving the AG's office she founded a Dripping Springs nonprofit, the Institute to Combat Trafficking, focused on trafficking cases. Her pitch is competence and transparency: a professional's office, not a political one. Faces Democrat Alfonso Salazar in November.
No specific statement found on her campaign site. [campaign website]
Melton’s take on Texas values
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