Jessica Jeanine Forgy

[{"question": "Ballotpedia survey responses", "answer_html": "<p>See also: <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a></p>\n<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-10 col-md-6 col-xs-offset-1 col-md-offset-3\"><p><a href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\"><img align=\"middle\" alt=\"Candidate Connection\" src=\"https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/8/88/Candidate_Connection_Logo.png\" width=\"90%\"/></a></p></div></div>\n<p>Jessica Forgy completed <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a> survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Forgy's responses.</p>\n<p><span class=\"expand-all\">Expand all</span> | <span class=\"collapse-all\">Collapse all</span></p>\n<div aria-multiselectable=\"true\" class=\"panel-group\" id=\"accordion\" role=\"tablist\"><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-bio-329007-2026-02-25\" id=\"heading-bio-329007-2026-02-25\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-bio-329007-2026-02-25\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-bio-329007-2026-02-25\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWho are you? Tell us about yourself.\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading-bio-329007-2026-02-25\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-bio-329007-2026-02-25\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tI am a Texas mother who homeschools her three kids, runs a family farm, and is working on finishing my masters of public health. I am a devout Christian, who seeks to love my neighbor has Christ has loved me. My educational and professional background is in public health and in emergency preparedness.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-329007-2026-02-25\" id=\"heading-key-message-329007-2026-02-25\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-key-message-329007-2026-02-25\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-329007-2026-02-25\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tPlease list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading-key-message-329007-2026-02-25\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-key-message-329007-2026-02-25\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><ul><li>Healthcare reform is my top priority. Our healthcare systems is a mess of misaligned incentives that prioritize corporate profits over patient needs. We need policies that will increase access and affordability of healthcare for all. \n<p>We need to get rid of programs like prior authorization that prevent doctors from practicing medicine according to their expertise, and that keeps people from care in a timely manner or keep them from receiving care at all. \nWe also need to significantly reform pharmacy benefit management programs, as these increase costs of prescriptions.\n</p>\nDecreasing these administrative costs will make healthcare more affordable across the board.</li><li>Affordability. My family personally knows the struggle right now with the job market, electricity, prices, and the cost of general goods at the grocery store how hard it is to keep going under this economy.\nThe enactment of tariffs, the destruction of multiple multilateral trade agreements have made it more difficult for businesses to make long-term plans, have increased the prices of goods coming into our country, and have greatly stressed, the agriculture industry here.</li><li>I support deporting those who have gone through the immigration courts and have a final order of removal.\nI absolutely do not support human rights violations of people going through immigration court, or people in holding before they are deported. \nImmigration efforts, targeting sensitive locations, such as schools, churches, and medical facilities are inexcusable and unnecessary.\nI also do not support suddenly removing the legal status that people had come in under and were protected by. Sudden removal of temporary protected status and refugee statuses are unfair and unjust.</li></ul></span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-329007-2026-02-25\" id=\"heading1-329007-2026-02-25\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse1-329007-2026-02-25\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-329007-2026-02-25\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading1-329007-2026-02-25\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse1-329007-2026-02-25\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tEthics and the rule of law are two issues that are particularly important to me. <br/>\n<p>I hope to enact term limits for Congress as well as the Supreme Court.<br/>\r\nI also hope to have stricter campaign finance reform, so that large corporations cannot substantially buy elections.<br/>\n</p>\nThe rule of law needs to apply to everyone, and it should not be permissible for the Epstein class to shield there illegal actions from prosecution.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div></div>\n<div class=\"small\" data-nosnippet=\"\"><p><i><b>Note:</b> Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.</i></p></div>\n<div><div style=\"margin-bottom:1.5rem\"><h4>Campaign website</h4><p>Forgy's campaign website stated the following:</p><div style=\"max-height:400px;overflow-y:auto;border:1px solid #ccc;padding:10px;margin:20px\"><blockquote style=\"margin:0px\"><h1>A Lifetime of Dedication</h1><p><br/></p><p>I have served previously as a quiet public servant in the Brazoria County Health Department. I care deeply that the people of Texas's 14th Congressional District have a Congressional Representative who will listen to their voices, care for their concerns, and write laws and vote on legislation that empowers them to live their best lives.</p><p><br/></p><p>I care deeply for our Constitution and how it lines out what each portion of government is responsible for, and how they hold each Co-Equal Branch accountable within our system of Checks and Balances.</p><p><br/></p><p>I will do my best so that the people of Texas's 14th Congressional District will have access to Healthcare options that protect and empower them. </p><p><br/></p><p>I will fight for funding and resources for the organizations that work for the people and help keep us safe such as NOAA, the NHC, the NWS, the CDC and FDA, and that the grants needed to run local services continue to be funded such as local Flooding Risk Reduction Plans, Health Departments, and Housing among others. The lack of a new FEMA plan, and a FEMA run without doing drills, and delays in dispersing funds to other disasters this year make me especially worried this Hurricane Season, not just for my district, but for everyone in an area at risk to Hurricanes.</p><p><br/></p><p>I am concerned by our National Deficit, and how the current administration including our Representatives Weber, and Senators Cruz and Cornyn have voted on legislation that will increase that deficit by not re-authorizing taxation to the top 5% of earners in the country and corporations, which have not trickled down their previous tax credit earnings to the people and groups below them. Funding our country does need to take an examination of the departments by using auditors to help identify areas of mis-appropriation, and areas where the government services can be streamlined and made more accessible to ordinary citizens. This can be done without cutting essential services such as Medicaid, and SNAP, and NIH funding, without cutting USAID and PEPFAR. We need to look at responsible levying of taxes to have sufficient revenue to run the government that works for all people. And we may need to reconsider the corporate subsidies that we pay out. </p><p><br/></p><p>I am running as a Republican, but a Republican that hails back to our beginning with President Lincoln, as the Northern States stood up and demanded that Slavery be abolished, and that all men have rights be acknowledged. My philosophy on government combines my personal philosophy of the importance of being a servant, and helping the Least of These, and what President Lincoln stated in the Fragment on Government in July 1, 1854</p><p><br/></p><p>\"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individual capacities.</p><p><br/></p><p>In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.</p><p><br/></p><p>The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions.</p><p><br/></p><p>The first—that in relation to wrongs—embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and non-performance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.</p><p><br/></p><p>From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.\"</p></blockquote><div style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 0.9em; color: #555; margin-top: 0.5em;\"><p style=\"font-size:0.9em;color:#555\">— Jessica Forgy's <a href=\"https://www.jessicaforgy.com/about-us/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">campaign website</a> (February 10, 2026)</p></div></div></div><div style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0.5em;\"><i>Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.</i></div></div>", "answer_text": "See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection\n\nJessica Forgy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Forgy's responses.\nExpand all | Collapse all\nWho are you? Tell us about yourself. I am a Texas mother who homeschools her three kids, runs a family farm, and is working on finishing my masters of public health. I am a devout Christian, who seeks to love my neighbor has Christ has loved me. My educational and professional background is in public health and in emergency preparedness. Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office? Healthcare reform is my top priority. Our healthcare systems is a mess of misaligned incentives that prioritize corporate profits over patient needs. We need policies that will increase access and affordability of healthcare for all. We need to get rid of programs like prior authorization that prevent doctors from practicing medicine according to their expertise, and that keeps people from care in a timely manner or keep them from receiving care at all. \nWe also need to significantly reform pharmacy benefit management programs, as these increase costs of prescriptions. Decreasing these administrative costs will make healthcare more affordable across the board. Affordability. My family personally knows the struggle right now with the job market, electricity, prices, and the cost of general goods at the grocery store how hard it is to keep going under this economy.\nThe enactment of tariffs, the destruction of multiple multilateral trade agreements have made it more difficult for businesses to make long-term plans, have increased the prices of goods coming into our country, and have greatly stressed, the agriculture industry here. I support deporting those who have gone through the immigration courts and have a final order of removal.\nI absolutely do not support human rights violations of people going through immigration court, or people in holding before they are deported. \nImmigration efforts, targeting sensitive locations, such as schools, churches, and medical facilities are inexcusable and unnecessary.\nI also do not support suddenly removing the legal status that people had come in under and were protected by. Sudden removal of temporary protected status and refugee statuses are unfair and unjust. What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Ethics and the rule of law are two issues that are particularly important to me. I hope to enact term limits for Congress as well as the Supreme Court. I also hope to have stricter campaign finance reform, so that large corporations cannot substantially buy elections. The rule of law needs to apply to everyone, and it should not be permissible for the Epstein class to shield there illegal actions from prosecution.\nNote: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.\nCampaign website Forgy's campaign website stated the following: A Lifetime of Dedication I have served previously as a quiet public servant in the Brazoria County Health Department. I care deeply that the people of Texas's 14th Congressional District have a Congressional Representative who will listen to their voices, care for their concerns, and write laws and vote on legislation that empowers them to live their best lives. I care deeply for our Constitution and how it lines out what each portion of government is responsible for, and how they hold each Co-Equal Branch accountable within our system of Checks and Balances. I will do my best so that the people of Texas's 14th Congressional District will have access to Healthcare options that protect and empower them. I will fight for funding and resources for the organizations that work for the people and help keep us safe such as NOAA, the NHC, the NWS, the CDC and FDA, and that the grants needed to run local services continue to be funded such as local Flooding Risk Reduction Plans, Health Departments, and Housing among others. The lack of a new FEMA plan, and a FEMA run without doing drills, and delays in dispersing funds to other disasters this year make me especially worried this Hurricane Season, not just for my district, but for everyone in an area at risk to Hurricanes. I am concerned by our National Deficit, and how the current administration including our Representatives Weber, and Senators Cruz and Cornyn have voted on legislation that will increase that deficit by not re-authorizing taxation to the top 5% of earners in the country and corporations, which have not trickled down their previous tax credit earnings to the people and groups below them. Funding our country does need to take an examination of the departments by using auditors to help identify areas of mis-appropriation, and areas where the government services can be streamlined and made more accessible to ordinary citizens. This can be done without cutting essential services such as Medicaid, and SNAP, and NIH funding, without cutting USAID and PEPFAR. We need to look at responsible levying of taxes to have sufficient revenue to run the government that works for all people. And we may need to reconsider the corporate subsidies that we pay out. I am running as a Republican, but a Republican that hails back to our beginning with President Lincoln, as the Northern States stood up and demanded that Slavery be abolished, and that all men have rights be acknowledged. My philosophy on government combines my personal philosophy of the importance of being a servant, and helping the Least of These, and what President Lincoln stated in the Fragment on Government in July 1, 1854 \"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first—that in relation to wrongs—embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and non-performance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself. From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.\" — Jessica Forgy's campaign website (February 10, 2026) Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source."}]