Michael Ray your neighbor and candidate for the Texas State House of Representatives and District 106 Ever wonder why your property taxes keep going up the public school funding does not improve Well here's why every time our property values rise the Republicans in Austin slash what the state invests in public education over the next 2 years they've built a 14 percent property tax increase into the budget and they decrease the state's share of public education funding to just 38 percent that's just wrong and it's got to stop the state should fund at least 60 percent of public education allowing local communities like ours to decide what property tax levels make sense that's what I'll push for in Austin but I need your help early voting runs February 20th through March 2nd and primary voting date is March 6th I hope I can count on your support I'm Michael Ray and I'm looking forward to representing our fan.