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Glenn Hegar
Glenn Hegar (Republican Party) was the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. He assumed office on January 1, 2015. He left office on June 30, 2025.
Hegar (Republican Party) ran for re-election for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. He won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Hegar is a former member of the Texas State Senate, representing District 18 from 2007 to 2014. Hegar announced he would resign his seat effective December 5, 2014, in order to take up his newly elected position as Texas Comptroller. A special election was scheduled for December 6, 2014,[1] and Lois Kolkhorst was declared the victor.[2]
Biography
Hegar graduated with a B.A. in political science and history from Texas A&M University and also graduated with an M.A. in international economic relations from St. Mary's University in 1997. He later obtained a J.D. from St. Mary's University School of Law and subsequently graduated with a Master's of Law in Agricultural Law from the University of Arkansas.
Prior to being comptroller, Hegar has worked as a farmer, and before his election to the state senate, Hegar was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 2002 to 2006.[3]
Political career
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (2015-2025)
Hegar was first elected to the comptroller's office on November 4, 2014. He was sworn into office on January 2, 2015.[4]
Texas State Senate (2007-2014)
Hegar represented District 18 in the Texas State Senate from 2007 to 2014.
Elections
2022
See also: Texas Comptroller election, 2022
General election
General election for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Incumbent Glenn Hegar defeated Janet Dudding and V. Alonzo Echevarria-Garza in the general election for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Glenn Hegar (R) | 56.4 | 4,496,319 |
 | Janet Dudding (D)  | 40.9 | 3,265,069 | |
| V. Alonzo Echevarria-Garza (L) | 2.7 | 212,205 | ||
| Total votes: 7,973,593 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michael Berlanga (Independent)
Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Janet Dudding defeated Angel Vega in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Janet Dudding | 61.4 | 292,069 |
 | Angel Vega | 38.6 | 183,533 | |
| Total votes: 475,602 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Janet Dudding and Angel Vega advanced to a runoff. They defeated Tim Mahoney in the Democratic primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Janet Dudding | 46.3 | 454,338 |
| ✔ | | Angel Vega | 34.5 | 338,877 |
 | Tim Mahoney | 19.2 | 188,250 | |
| Total votes: 981,465 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Incumbent Glenn Hegar defeated Mark Goloby in the Republican primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Glenn Hegar | 81.7 | 1,386,782 |
 | Mark Goloby | 18.3 | 310,829 | |
| Total votes: 1,697,611 | |||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
V. Alonzo Echevarria-Garza advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on April 10, 2022.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | V. Alonzo Echevarria-Garza (L) | |
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Campaign finance
2018
- See also: Texas Comptroller election, 2018
General election
General election for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Incumbent Glenn Hegar defeated Joi Chevalier and Ben Sanders in the general election for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Glenn Hegar (R) | 53.2 | 4,376,828 |
 | Joi Chevalier (D) | 43.4 | 3,570,693 | |
 | Ben Sanders (L) | 3.4 | 281,081 | |
| Total votes: 8,228,602 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Joi Chevalier defeated Tim Mahoney in the Democratic primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joi Chevalier | 51.9 | 483,276 |
| Tim Mahoney | 48.1 | 448,468 | |
| Total votes: 931,744 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Incumbent Glenn Hegar advanced from the Republican primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on March 6, 2018.
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2014
Hegar ran for election to the office of Texas Comptroller. Hegar won the Republican nomination in the primary.[5] Hegar was endorsed by Empower Texans.[6] The general election took place on November 4, 2014.
Results
Primary election
| Texas Comptroller Republican Primary, 2014 | ||||
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
 Glenn Hegar |
50% | 612,269 | ||
| Harvey Hilderbran | 26% | 318,899 | ||
| Debra Medina | 19.3% | 236,531 | ||
| Raul Torres | 4.6% | 56,937 | ||
| Total Votes | 1,224,636 | |||
| Election results via Texas Secretary of State. | ||||
General election
| Texas Comptroller, 2014 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Glenn Hegar |
58.4% | 2,697,877 | |
| Democrat | Mike Collier | 37.7% | 1,742,119 | |
| Libertarian | Ben Sanders | 3% | 136,869 | |
| Green | Deb Shafto | 1% | 44,981 | |
| Total Votes | 4,621,846 | |||
| Election results via Texas Secretary of State | ||||
Endorsements
- Retiring Comptroller Susan Combs[7]
- Texas Homeschool Coalition[8]
2012
- See also: Texas State Senate elections, 2012
Hegar ran in the 2012 election for Texas State Senate, District 18. Hegar ran unopposed in the May 29 primary election and was unchallenged in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[9]
2010
- See also: Texas State Senate elections, 2010
Hegar won re-election to the 18th District Seat in 2010, defeating Democratic opponent Patricia Olney in the general election on November 6, 2012.[9] He ran unopposed in the primary.ran for the seat on the Democratic ticket.
| Texas State Senate, District 18 2010 General election results | ||||
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| Candidates | Votes | Percent | ||
| Glenn Hegar (R)
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146,087 | 70.42% | ||
| Patricia Olney (D) | 61,345 | 29.57% | ||
2006
- See also: Texas State Senate elections, 2006
On Nov. 7, 2006, Hegar won election to the 18th District Seat in the Texas State Senate, defeating opponent Roy Wright (L).[9]
Hegar raised $852,050 for his campaign while Wright raised $0.[10]
| Texas State Senate, District 18 (2006) | ||||
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| Candidates | Votes | Percent | ||
| Glenn Hegar (R)
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110,512 | 78.92% | ||
| Roy Wright (L) | 29,511 | 21.07% | ||
Issues
ESG
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As comptroller, Hegar took positions in opposition to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), an approach to investing and corporate decision-making.
State financial officers, including treasurers, auditors, and controllers, are responsible for auditing other government offices, managing payroll, and overseeing pensions. In some states, certain SFOs are also responsible for investing state retirement and trust funds.
“Numerous companies and their leadership are pushing an environmental and social agenda that not only threatens the Texas economy and jobs, but also undermines national security,” Hegar said in March 2022.[11]
Divesting state funds from Ben & Jerry’s (September 2021)
In July 2021, American ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s announced it was ending sales of its products in the “occupied Palestinian territory.” In response, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Ben & Jerry’s had become the “anti-Israel ice cream.”[12]
Ben & Jerry’s is a subsidiary of Unilever, PLC, a publicly traded multinational consumer products conglomerate. Texas law prohibits the state from holding investments in firms that are found to have boycotted Israel.[13]
On September 23, 2021, Hegar added Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever to the state’s list of firms boycotting Israel. According to a statement from his office, the “action was undertaken pursuant to Texas Government Code Chapter 808, which defines “boycott Israel” as “refusing to deal with, terminating business activities with, or otherwise taking any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on or limit commercial relations specifically with Israel or with a person or entity doing business in Israel or in an Israeli-controlled territory...”[14]
In June 2022, Unilever announced it was selling the Israeli rights to the ice cream to American Quality Products (AQP), allowing sales to resume in Israel under the new label. In a Twitter statement, Ben & Jerry’s expressed its disagreement with the policy change:
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“While our parent company has taken this decision, we do not agree with it. Unilever’s arrangement means Ben & Jerry’s in Israel will be owned and operated by AQP. Our company will no longer profit from Ben & Jerry’s in Israel.”[15][16] |
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West Virginia letter supporting financial system access for fuel industry (November 2021)
Hegar was a co-signer on a November 22, 2021, letter sent by West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore (R) and addressed: “To Whom It May Concern in the U.S. Banking Industry.” The signatories were the treasurers, auditors and comptrollers from fifteen states. The letter identified them as the “fiduciaries and stewards of more than $600 billion” in combined investment capital.
The letter began: “We are writing to notify you that we will be taking collective action in response to the ongoing and growing economic boycott of traditional energy production industries by U.S. financial institutions.” The signatories wrote their individual actions would be tailored to fit each state’s unique laws and economic position, but that the coordinated objective would be “to select financial institutions that support a free market and are not engaged in harmful fossil fuel industry boycotts for our states’ financial services contracts.”[17]
Investment firms found in violation of Texas energy boycott law (August 2022)
A 2021 Texas law prohibits state pension funds and retirement funds from investing in financial firms found to be boycotting energy companies. The law also requires the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts to research and compile a list of such firms.[18][19]
On August 24, 2022, Hegar announced that ten financial firms had ESG investment policies that were not compliant with the Texas anti-boycott law: BlackRock, BNP Paribas SA, Credit Suisse, Danske Bank, Jupiter Fund Management PLC, Nordea Bank ABP, Schoders PLC, Svenska Handelsbanken AB, Swedbank AB, and UBS Group AG. Hegar placed all ten on the list of firms prohibited from managing state investments.
“The environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) movement has produced an opaque and perverse system in which some financial companies no longer make decisions in the best interest of their shareholders or their clients, but instead use their financial clout to push a social and political agenda shrouded in secrecy,” Hegar said, according to an August 2022 news release announcing public release of the list.[20]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Campaign finance summary
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State legislative tenure
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2014
In 2014, the Texas State Legislature did not hold a regular session.
2013
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In 2013, the Texas State Legislature was in its 83rd legislative session from January 8 through May 27. Thirty minutes after the regular session ended, Governor Rick Perry called legislators back for a special session starting that evening.[21] Two additional called sessions were held from July 1 through July 30 and July 30 through August 5.[22]
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2012
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2011
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In 2011, the Texas State Legislature was in its 82nd legislative session from January 11 through May 30. A special session was called for May 31 through June 29.[22]
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Committee assignments
2013-2014
At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Hegar served on the following committees:
| Texas committee assignments, 2013 |
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| • Agriculture, Rural Affairs & Homeland Security |
| • Finance |
| • Natural Resources |
| • Nominations, Chair |
2011-2012
In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Hegar served on the following Texas Senate committees:
| Texas committee assignments, 2011 |
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| • Government Organization, Vice chair |
| • Nominations |
| • Agriculture & Rural Affairs |
| • Criminal Justice |
| • Natural Resources |
2009-2010
In the 2009-2010 legislative session, Hegar served on the following Texas Senate committees:
| Texas committee assignments, 2009 |
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| • Government Organization |
| • Agriculture & Rural Affairs |
| • Criminal Justice |
| • Natural Resources |
| • Nominations |
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Kiah Collier, American-Statesman, "As Hegar resigns, Dec. 6 special election set for Senate District 18," November 14, 2014
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Special election results," accessed December 31, 2014
- ↑ Project Vote Smart, "Biography," accessed May 24, 2014
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedhegar - ↑ Community Impact Newspaper, "Glenn Hegar plans candidacy for state comptroller," June 5, 2013
- ↑ Empower Texans, "2014 Endorsements," November 19, 2013
- ↑ Houston Chronicle, "Combs backs Hegar for Comptroller," October 18, 2013
- ↑ KFYO, "Glenn Hegar Discusses his Campaign for Texas Comptroller on Pratt on Texas (AUDIO)," November 14, 2013
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Texas Secretary of State, "1992 - Current Election History," accessed February 17, 2014
- ↑ Follow the Money, "2006 Candidate funds," accessed May 24, 2014
- ↑ Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, “Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Seeks Information from 19 Companies That May be Boycotting Fossil Fuel Industry,” March 16, 2022
- ↑ Jewish News Service, “Ben & Jerry’s to freeze ice-cream sales in ‘occupied Palestinian territory,’” July 19, 2021
- ↑ Austin-American Statesman, “Texas designates Ben & Jerry's as company that boycotts Israel,” September 23, 2021
- ↑ Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, “Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar: Ben & Jerry’s and its Parent Company Added to Texas List of Companies That Boycott Israel,” September 23, 2021
- ↑ Jewish News Service, “Unilever reaches deal with Ben & Jerry’s Israel to end boycott,” June 29, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ West Virginia Office of the State Treasurer, “Letter: To Whom It May Concern in the U.S. Banking Industry,” November 22, 2021
- ↑ Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, “Comptroller of Public Accounts List of Financial Companies that Boycott Energy Companies: Frequently Asked Questions,” accessed September 4, 2022
- ↑ Texas Tribune, “Texas warns firms they could lose state contracts for divesting from fossil fuels,” March 16, 2022
- ↑ Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, “Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Announces List of Financial Companies that Boycott Energy Companies,” August 24, 2022
- ↑ kten.com, "Texas Lawmakers To Tackle Redistricting In Special Session," May 29, 2013
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Legislative reference Library of Texas, "Texas Legislative Sessions and Years," accessed June 13, 2014
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