Penny Morales Shaw

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Penny Morales Shaw
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Texas House of Representatives District 148
Tenure

2021 - Present

Term ends

2025

Years in position

3

Predecessor

Compensation

Base salary

$7,200/year

Per diem

$221/day

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Personal
Birthplace
Houston, Texas
Profession
Attorney
Contact

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Penny Morales Shaw (Democratic Party) is a member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 148. She assumed office on January 12, 2021. Her current term ends on January 14, 2025.

Shaw (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 148. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.


Biography

Penny Shaw was born in Houston, Texas.[1] Shaw's career experience includes working as an attorney, a U.S. congressional legislative advocate, and an owner and administrator of three businesses.[2]

Committee assignments

2023-2024

Shaw was assigned to the following committees:

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2021-2022

Shaw was assigned to the following committees:

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The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2024

See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Incumbent Penny Morales Shaw defeated Kay Smith in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw (D)
 
54.8
 
28,021
Image of Kay Smith
Kay Smith (R)
 
45.2
 
23,093

Total votes: 51,114
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Incumbent Penny Morales Shaw advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw
 
100.0
 
4,601

Total votes: 4,601
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Kay Smith advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Kay Smith
Kay Smith
 
100.0
 
4,333

Total votes: 4,333
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Campaign finance

Endorsements

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2022

See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Incumbent Penny Morales Shaw defeated Kay Smith and R. Grizzle Trojacek in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw (D)
 
55.5
 
20,456
Image of Kay Smith
Kay Smith (R)
 
42.6
 
15,691
Image of R. Grizzle Trojacek
R. Grizzle Trojacek (L)
 
1.9
 
697

Total votes: 36,844
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Incumbent Penny Morales Shaw advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw
 
100.0
 
4,748

Total votes: 4,748
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Kay Smith advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Kay Smith
Kay Smith
 
100.0
 
4,290

Total votes: 4,290
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for Texas House of Representatives District 148

R. Grizzle Trojacek advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on March 12, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of R. Grizzle Trojacek
R. Grizzle Trojacek (L)
 
86.0
 
37
 Other/Write-in votes
 
14.0
 
6

Total votes: 43
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Campaign finance


2020

See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Penny Morales Shaw defeated Luis LaRotta in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw (D)
 
63.7
 
38,287
Image of Luis LaRotta
Luis LaRotta (R) Candidate Connection
 
36.3
 
21,844

Total votes: 60,131
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Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Penny Morales Shaw defeated incumbent Anna Eastman in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on July 14, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw
 
51.2
 
4,419
Image of Anna Eastman
Anna Eastman Candidate Connection
 
48.8
 
4,213

Total votes: 8,632
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Incumbent Anna Eastman and Penny Morales Shaw advanced to a runoff. They defeated Adrian P. Garcia, Cynthia Reyes-Revilla, and Emily Wolf in the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on March 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Anna Eastman
Anna Eastman Candidate Connection
 
41.6
 
6,174
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw
 
22.1
 
3,279
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Adrian P. Garcia
 
18.7
 
2,781
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Cynthia Reyes-Revilla
 
10.3
 
1,529
Image of Emily Wolf
Emily Wolf Candidate Connection
 
7.3
 
1,088

Total votes: 14,851
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Luis LaRotta advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on March 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Luis LaRotta
Luis LaRotta Candidate Connection
 
100.0
 
3,786

Total votes: 3,786
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Campaign finance

2019

See also: Texas state legislative special elections, 2019

General runoff election

Special general runoff election for Texas House of Representatives District 148

Anna Eastman defeated Luis LaRotta in the special general runoff election for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on January 28, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Anna Eastman
Anna Eastman (D)
 
65.4
 
4,544
Image of Luis LaRotta
Luis LaRotta (R)
 
34.6
 
2,399

Total votes: 6,943
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General election

Special general election for Texas House of Representatives District 148

The following candidates ran in the special general election for Texas House of Representatives District 148 on November 5, 2019.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Anna Eastman
Anna Eastman (D)
 
20.3
 
4,212
Image of Luis LaRotta
Luis LaRotta (R)
 
15.8
 
3,282
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Adrian P. Garcia (D)
 
12.1
 
2,496
Image of Ryan McConnico
Ryan McConnico (R)
 
10.8
 
2,228
Image of Michele Leal
Michele Leal (D) Candidate Connection
 
9.1
 
1,885
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw (D)
 
8.0
 
1,652
Image of Chris Watt
Chris Watt (D)
 
6.2
 
1,284
Image of Chris Carmona
Chris Carmona (Independent)
 
4.4
 
910
Image of Kendra Yarbrough Camarena
Kendra Yarbrough Camarena (D) Candidate Connection
 
3.9
 
818
Image of Rob Block
Rob Block (D)
 
3.3
 
679
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Anna Nunez (D)
 
1.9
 
388
Image of Carol Denson
Carol Denson (D) Candidate Connection
 
1.6
 
334
Image of Alva Trevino
Alva Trevino (D)
 
1.5
 
317
Image of Mia Mundy
Mia Mundy (D) Candidate Connection
 
0.7
 
136
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Terah Isaacson (D)
 
0.4
 
90

Total votes: 20,711
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2018

See also: Municipal elections in Harris County, Texas (2018)

General election

General election for Harris County Commissioners Court Precinct 4

Incumbent R. Jack Cagle defeated Penny Morales Shaw in the general election for Harris County Commissioners Court Precinct 4 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
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R. Jack Cagle (R)
 
54.3
 
186,762
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw (D)
 
45.7
 
157,447

Total votes: 344,209
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Harris County Commissioners Court Precinct 4

Penny Morales Shaw defeated Jeffrey Stauber in the Democratic primary for Harris County Commissioners Court Precinct 4 on March 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw
 
75.1
 
22,860
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Jeffrey Stauber
 
24.9
 
7,574

Total votes: 30,434
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Harris County Commissioners Court Precinct 4

Incumbent R. Jack Cagle advanced from the Republican primary for Harris County Commissioners Court Precinct 4 on March 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
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R. Jack Cagle
 
100.0
 
43,762

Total votes: 43,762
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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2022

Penny Morales Shaw did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Penny Morales Shaw did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

2019

Penny Morales Shaw did not complete Ballotpedia's 2019 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance summary


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Penny Morales Shaw campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Texas House of Representatives District 148Won general$41,546 $46,728
2022Texas House of Representatives District 148Won general$116,190 $110,793
2020Texas House of Representatives District 148Won general$219,350 N/A**
2019Texas House of Representatives District 148Lost general$66,840 N/A**
Grand total$443,926 $157,521
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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Preceded by
Anna Eastman (D)
Texas House of Representatives District 148
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