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https://www.texasgop.org/filing-period/|title=2016 Filed Primary Candidates|publisher=texasgop.org|accessdate=December 28, 2015}}</ref> Gooden polled 14,500 votes (51.8 percent) to Spitzer's 13,502 (48.2 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, March 1, 2016.</ref> Despite his previous association with [[Moderate Republican]]s such as Joe Straus, Gooden is also a staunch supporter of former [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]]. Gooden was elected for his second term to the District 5 seat in the [[United States House of Representatives]] on November 3, 2020.

https://www.texasgop.org/filing-period/|title=2016 Filed Primary Candidates|publisher=texasgop.org|accessdate=December 28, 2015}}</ref> Gooden polled 14,500 votes (51.8 percent) to Spitzer's 13,502 (48.2 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, March 1, 2016.</ref> Despite his previous association with [[Moderate Republican]]s such as Joe Straus, Gooden is also a staunch supporter of former [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]]. Gooden was elected for his second term to the District 5 seat in the [[United States House of Representatives]] on November 3, 2020.

Spitzer sponsored a budget amendment in 2015 seeking to remove $3 million from the state's [[HIV]] prevention services and adding the funds to teach abstinence-only education. Spitzer cited his [[Christian]] belief in  abstinence from sexual activity until marriage. During floor debate in the Texas House of Representatives, Spitzer said that he was abstinent until marriage at the age of twenty-nine, and he considers abstinence the only way to prevent unwanted pregnancies and [[STD]] infections.<ref>http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-house-strips-3-mil-from-hiv-prevention-to-promote-abstinence-is-incredibly-dumb-7134777</ref><ref{{cite web|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/31/abstinence-funding-devolves-uncomfortable-debate/|title=Tense Debate as House Shifts HIV Funding to Abstinence Education

Spitzer sponsored a budget amendment in 2015 seeking to remove $3 million from the state's [[HIV]] prevention services and adding the funds to teach abstinence-only education. Spitzer cited his [[Christian]] belief in  abstinence from sexual activity until marriage. During floor debate in the Texas House of Representatives, Spitzer said that he was abstinent until marriage at the age of twenty-nine, and he considers abstinence the only way to prevent unwanted pregnancies and [[STD]] infections.<ref>http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-house-strips-3-mil-from-hiv-prevention-to-promote-abstinence-is-incredibly-dumb-7134777</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/31/abstinence-funding-devolves-uncomfortable-debate/|title=Tense Debate as House Shifts HIV Funding to Abstinence Education: Some of the most emotional, and uncomfortable, debate on the House budget Tuesday came when a state representative asked fellow lawmakers to move money from HIV and STD prevention to abstinence education|author=Eva Hershaw|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|date=March 31, 2015|accessdate=February 6, 2021}}</ref>

Some of the most emotional, and uncomfortable, debate on the House budget Tuesday came when a state representative asked fellow lawmakers to move money from HIV and STD prevention to abstinence education|author=Eva Hershaw|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|date=March 31, 2015|accessdate=February 6, 2021}}</ref>

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