Texas House, District 91
About this race: A Dallas-Fort Worth area district. The sitting member's recorded votes on the 2025 hemp-THC ban and the Compassionate Use Program expansion are listed below in date order, with their record-vote numbers, as the official journals print them.
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Texas House, District 91 race page.
Yisak WorkuDemocrat
88/100
support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100
thin — one or two records produced this number · 2 of 2 records scored
How this score is worked out
Seven kinds of act move this number, and they do not count equally. A recorded vote
counts 3, and so does authoring a bill or signing an executive action; signing on to
somebody else’s bill counts 2. A statement or a questionnaire answer counts 2 as
well, and an organisational endorsement counts 1. A vote takes its direction from the
bill, whose effect is set out in advance; the rest take it from our reading of what was
said, and each one below shows that reading and the reason for it. Acts shown with no
number were examined and deliberately left out of the arithmetic, with a reason given.
- 2026-02-16 questionnaire — Answered supporting full legalisation of cannabis and THC products and expunging past convictions, counted as +2 at weight 2
- 2026-02-03 questionnaire — Called federal rescheduling a good sign while expecting regulation and decriminalisation to face resistance in Texas, counted as +1 at weight 2
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Questionnaire2026-02-03
Answered the Dallas Morning News candidate questionnaire in its 2026 voter guide. The paper asked every candidate in the race: "How do you think the president’s executive order to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug will affect THC regulation in Texas?" The answer given was: "I think it is a good sign but I imagine regulation and decriminalization will still face many roadblocks from conservatives predominantly of older generation."
dallasnews.com, dallasnews.com
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Questionnaire2026-02-16
Answered the Fort Worth Report candidate questionnaire question "What is your stance on banning or regulating THC products?", published 2026-02-16: "I support a full legalization of weed and THC derivative products. It is clear that the strongest much less harmful than already legal drugs such as alcohol and nicotine and in spite of that its criminalization has led to mass incarceration a black and brown communities.
Moving forward we should be supporting this blossoming industry but we must ensure that we support local Growers and suppliers not Mega corporations along with that we should expunge the records of those convicted for consumption of what would today be considered legal."
fortworthreport.org
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Who is paying for this campaign
Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission
Texas Ethics Commission filer 90253, filed as
“Worku, Yisak T.”, treasurer appointment for State Representative, District 91, dated 2025-10-29. The name on the filing is not word-for-word the name on the ballot — both are printed above so you can check the pairing yourself before you rely on it.
Why there are no figures and no industry breakdown here.
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