About Miguel Suazo

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“Our changing climate is a reality that threatens our coast. As an energy state, Texas needs a sustainable energy strategy that makes production and consumption efficient. Too often, we hear climate change as a wedge issue…. This is not a partisan issue, it’s an issue that requires local, regional, national, and global collaboration because it impacts all of us.”

 

Miguel Suazo is running for Texas Public Lands Commissioner.  He was born in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and was part of the seventh generation of his family to work the family’s cattle ranch.  He describes himself as an outdoorsman.  After earning a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, Suazo worked as an aide to U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.  Suazo went on to earn his law degree from the University of New Mexico, where he focused on natural resources and business law.  After graduating, he worked for Wellford Energy as an Energy and Environment Associate, helping emergent clean energy companies become commercially successful.  Suazo and his wife live in Austin, where he manages the Suazo Legal Group, PLLC, a business and energy law practice serving Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico. 

 

Suazo’s education and experience uniquely suit him to be Texas General Land Commissioner.  He notes that his law firm specializes in the natural resources negotiations that are central to the work of the Land Office and that he gained policy experience while serving on the staff of Sen. Bingaman.  He believes climate change to be a serious threat to the Texas coast, stating that Texas needs to be efficient in using both conventional and renewable energy.  Suazo would work to help continuing recovery from Hurricane Harvey and to help prepare coastal cities for future hurricanes.  As land commissioner, he would be charged with leasing public lands to raise money for public education. He is a strong supporter of public education and is against using government money to support private schools.  Suazo has a plan for the Alamo, and he would strive to end the divisiveness around this important monument to our history.  He thinks that diversity creates strength, that mistreatment of women should be confronted directly, and that “unequal application of the law has no place in our country.”  He would work to support veterans through various programs that are part of the Land Office.

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