Carl Isett

Infobox State Representative| name=Carl Hawkins Isett


caption=Texas State Representative Carl Isett
nationality=American
office= Texas State Representative from District 84 (Lubbock County)
party=Republican
term_start=1997
term_end=
preceded= Robert L. Duncan
succeeded= Incumbent
date of birth=birth date and age|1957|03|07
date of death=
place of birth=Lubbock, Texas
occupation=Certified Public Accountant
spouse= Cheri Nanette Isett
education=Texas Tech University

Carl Hawkins Isett (born March 7, 1957) is a Certified Public Accountant from Lubbock who has been a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1997.

Isett was initially elected in House District 84 in 1996 to succeed Robert L. Duncan of Lubbock, who was elected to the Texas State Senate. Isett defeated the Democrat Don Richards in what has become a strongly Republican legislative district. At the time, the conservative Isett was the only practicing tax accountant in the Texas House. He has placed lower taxes, reduced government, and greater personal freedom and responsibility at the core of his stated legislative goals. He has been foremost among lawmakers opposed to cities maintaining cameras at traffic lights. As a freshman, his colleagues elected him to serve on the Policy Committee of the House Republican Caucus.

Isett serves on the House Appropriations Committee and chairs Budget Oversight for the Insurance Committee, headed by his Republican colleague John T. Smithee of Amarillo. He was also named to the Select Committee on School Finance and served as the chairman of the subcommittee on school finance cost adjustment. He has been president of the bipartisan Texas Conservative Coalition. Legislative colleagues elected him to the Steering Committee for the House Research Organization. He was also selected by the Speaker of the House to serve on the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission, a panel which reviews state agencies over a 12-year period and recommends the elimination of useless bureaucracies. He is co-chairman of the Sportsman Caucus, a board member of the Tower Institute, and a member of the Lubbock Lions Club.

Isett has successfully championed bills such as HB 1516 which increased efficiency and improved the management of information technology in state government. This legislation was the first of its kind in the nation. Isett received the "Friend of the Taxpayer" Award from the Citizens for a Sound Economy and the "Champion of Free Enterprise" Award by the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Isett and his wife, Cheri Nanette Isett, married in 1983. They have seven children. At times, Isett worked three jobs to put himself and his wife through college. Isett received his bachelor of arts degree in accounting and finance and his master of science degree in finance from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He is a commissioned officer in the United States Naval Reserve: a commander attached to Commander Logistics Western Pacific. In October 2006, he returned home from deployment in Kuwait and Iraq. His wife served as his legislative proxy while he was away.

A month after returning from the Middle East, Isett won his sixth term in the legislature. He received 15,751 votes (66.1 percent) to 8,068 (33.9 percent) for his Democratic opponent, the Lubbock educator Pearlie Mayfield (born August 24, 1952).

Early in 2007, Isett again introduced what he calls his "Taxpayer Protection Act." It would provide for a recall election if local property taxes increase by more than 5 percent a year, similar to a new limit proposed by the Texas Task Force on Appraisal Reform and endorsed by Governor Rick Perry. The measure failed to win passage in the regular legislative session.

In 2003, Isett ran in a special election for the United States House of Representatives from District 19. The opening developed when longterm Republican U.S. Representative Larry Combest suddenly retired. Isett, who carried the backing of Right to Life, polled some 19 percent of the vote, almost enough to garner a runoff berth. The position ultimately went to his fellow Lubbock Republican Randy Neugebauer (pronounced NAG A BOWER), also a conservative.

References

http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/dist84/bio/isett.htm

http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/reports/house/dist84/r8.htm

http://blogs.chron.com/texaspolitics/archives/2007/01/rep_carl_isett.html

http://www.kcbd.com/global/Story.asp?s=2360525

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/alsorun.asp?cid=n00026042

http://newsradio1420.com/newsradio/newsMaker.asp?storyID=1930

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2519/is_2_24/ai_98248548?lstpn=article_results&lstpc=search&lstpr=external&lstprs=other&lstwid=1&lstwn=search_results&lstwp=body_middle

http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/110696/isett.htm

Persondata
NAME= Isett, Carl Hawkins
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Certified Public Accountant
DATE OF BIRTH=1957-03-07
PLACE OF BIRTH=Lubbock, Texas
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=