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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Alejandro Serrano

Texas’ comptroller is the state’s top accountant. The candidates are campaigning on culture wars.

This election season, Don Huffines promised to end woke ideology. Christi Craddick vowed to “hold the line” on keeping boys out of girls’ sports in Texas. And Kelly Hancock has touted his support for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

So one would be forgiven for not realizing the three Republicans are running to be the Texas comptroller — the state’s top accountant, whose main responsibilities include collecting taxes, writing checks and predicting the state’s revenue so the Legislature can decide how to spend it.

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