March 20, 2019      4:22 PM

Freshman House members in both parties work to build relationships while encountering challenges they did not expect

“One thing that people say is ‘I’m not here to make friends I’m here to get stuff done.’ Well, if you want to get stuff done you better make friends”

There’s a whole new crop of freshmen members of the Texas House this session, including a number of younger leaders and an increase in the number of Democrats who made incursions into Republican territory last November.

Erin Zwiener D-Driftwood is one the roughly 30 new members of the House and one of the 12 Democrats that flipped formerly Republican seats. In an interview with Quorum Report, the freshman and new mother told us about the realities of the new job from her perspective.

“We, like any other freshman office, have to take this one day at a time,” she said. “There are a lot of unknowns for us freshmen.”

By Andrew Turner

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