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Meet Ruth
Ruth is a resilient, committed woman of faith calling Texas home for over 16 years and a bold warrior for a government that serves the people, not the 1%. Ruth is 3rd of 6 kids to Linda Sue, a white country girl and Andres a black Puerto Rican, both from rural farming families. Now an empty nester, Ruth raised 5 beautiful racially diverse children as a single parent: 2 from a relationship with a police officer and 3 she took as her own when their mothers died very young due to lack of adequate medical care.
Ruth and her disabled siblings went through foster homes & homeless shelters. Ruth was a 10th grade dropout but became the first in her family to earn a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from DCCC & Dallas Baptist University via a daily 14 mile bicycle ride, a Master’s Degree in International Management from FIU and Ruth is currently earning her law degree.
Ruth is a strategic process improvement and problem solving expert with over 20 years in Human Capital Strategic & Legal Compliance Consulting. Ruth climbed the corporate ladder as a Human Resources Executive, opened a small business since 2007, a business professor for 7 years and Executive Director for a non-profit organization for at-risk youth.
Ruth’s Accomplishments for Texas
Ruth has brought results for Texans including:
- Public Education: Being an aggressive public education activist in Austin against vouchers. Ruth sought recovery of $88M in misappropriated Dallas ISD bond funds submitting a complaint to enforcement agencies. Subsequently DISD Superintendent Hinojosa resigned & three trustees were not allowed to seek re-election. My report also disrupted non-profits illegally buying school board seats for pro-charter/ pro-voucher candidates.
- Public Safety: Ruth proposed legislation to stop street racing after 8 year old Olivia was killed, gained sponsorship and bi-partisan support resulting in HB2315, HB3212 & SB1766 which passed in 2021 protecting lives across Texas.
- Housing: Ruth confronted mismanagement of HUD funds and lack of housing discrimination legal actions by the City of Dallas benefitting city council campaign contributors resulting in dozens of additional affordable housing units in downtown and ongoing legal action for records to enforce accountability. (See: Travis County: D-1-GN-19-003589)
- Government Accountability & Worker Rights: Since 2016, Ruth has lost $1.8M in personal income and experienced extreme retaliation fighting government corruption which stopped DFW Airport from robbing hundreds of workers of wages and benefits. The DFW Airport contractor, Heaven Marie Diaz of Pursuit of Excellence Inc., was indicted for the least of many illegal actions (See: UD NTX, 3:23-CR-00144-N). The IRS and DOJ press releases and media coverage fail to mention the employees Heaven Marie Diaz stole $3 Million in taxes from were DFW Airport employees.
Ruth continues to pursue accountability against dozens of local and state government officials of both political parties including Governor Greg Abbott & Attorney General Ken Paxton.
(See: US Courts NTX: 3:24-CV-1842-X, 3:24-CV-1843-B).
Ruth has also served
- Texas Organizing Project
- Dallas Board of Adjustment
- DPD Chief Community Board
- Neighborhood Coalition Dallas
- Dallas County Democratic Party to execute 2020 Election (Covid)
- The Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center
- OCBF Project Turn-Around Advisory Board
- NTX Regional Housing Assessment Project
- NAACP state & national, Resolutions Chair
- PTSA Executive Board, Booker T. Washington HSPVA
- Coalition Partner gaining DPD Community Police Oversight Board.
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Ruth w/ daughter Lara & mom, Linda
Ruth & her kids: Jermain, Tonya, Kayla, Ruth, Lara & Calvert
