Voting rights started her activism
Shannon Elkin Shannon Elkins is a special ed teacher running for a Tarrant County seat in the Legislature DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Shannon Elkins entered the race for state House District 98 planning to raise a few issues.
But she wasn’t expecting to be the only candidate who entered on the Democratic side. Now that she has the Democratic nomination though, she’s out to win the seat in November.
Elkins is challenging five-term incumbent Giovanni Capriglione for the northern Tarrant County seat. Capriglione has accomplished little during his decade in office, but he did author the anti-abortion trigger law that made abortion illegal in Texas with the repeal of Roe v.
Wade. With redistricting, the district lost the city of Haslet and added a piece of Euless. That added Democratic voters. The district now includes Keller and Colleyville and most of Grapevine, Southlake and Westlake with a piece of far north Fort Worth.
