Bently Cain Paiz
Fiber Optic Tech / Legislative Aide
Bently Paiz works full-time as a Fiber Optic Technician, helping expand high-speed internet access across Texas.
He also serves as a Legislative Aide at the Texas Capitol for Representative Josey Garcia, where he supports policy work focused on equity, infrastructure, and community empowerment.
bentlys background
Bently Paiz is a working-class organizer, fiber optic technician, and legislative aide fighting for a Texas where dignity isn’t a privilege—it’s a guarantee. His story begins in New Braunfels, where he was raised by his grandmother, a kind-hearted, deeply faithful woman who gave him everything she had. But like so many elders in this country, she spent her later years not in peace, but in pain.
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Bently grew up helping care for her as she battled the full weight of the American healthcare crisis: diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure—and all the complications that come with them. He helped with daily routines, managed medications, and sat with her through endless hospital visits. Even as a teenager, he carried responsibilities most adults would struggle with. And all the while, he watched a system meant to help people like her fall short—treating her life like it was disposable.
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His father worked constantly—long hours, multiple jobs—just to barely keep the bills paid. But it was never enough. Like millions of working families, they had to rely on government assistants to get by. Trips to the grocery store came with mental math and limitations, and the pressure of making sure there was enough for everyone was always there.​ Meanwhile, his mother was living in San Antonio, doing everything she could to raise her children while battling the city’s rising cost of living. Rent was never stable, and their lives were constantly uprooted—moving from place to place, losing housing not because of anything they did wrong, but because of a system designed to squeeze out struggling families who cant keep up.
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Bently spent much of his childhood bouncing between his mothers side in San Antonio and his grandmother’s home in New Braunfels. Whenever the next move came, or things got too unstable, he’d return to New Braunfels for some form of consistency. That back-and-forth shaped him—it showed him the cost of poverty, the exhaustion of instability, and the quiet strength it takes just to keep going.
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Despite everything, Bently graduated early from New Braunfels High School. He balanced school and work, helped care for his grandmother, and still found time to fight. He founded the Comal County Young Democrats, organized rallies and voter drives, and eventually ran for office—not because it was easy, but because no one else is fighting up for families like his.
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Today, Bently works full-time as a Fiber Optic Technician, bringing high-speed internet to the very communities that have long been left behind. He also serves as a Legislative Aide to State Representative Josey Garcia, helping craft policy around housing, healthcare, and justice—everything he wished his family had more of when it mattered most.​ Bently's not just running a campaign—he’s building a movement. A movement for every kid raised by their grandmother. For every parent working two jobs and still needing food stamps. For every family displaced by greed, failed by the system, and still standing.
Because he knows from experience: working people don’t need pity. We need power. And Bently’s here to help us take it.
