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Jay Kleberg
Jay Kleberg (Democratic Party) ran for election for Texas Land Commissioner. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Kleberg completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Kleberg was a Republican candidate for the District 78 in the Texas House of Representatives in the November 2, 2010, state legislative elections.
Biography
Jay Kleberg earned a B.A. in English from Williams College in 2000 and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. Kleberg's career experience includes co-founding Explore Ranches and working as a producer with Deep in the Heart LLC and as a strategic initiatives lead with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation. He has served on the advisory board of Flatsworthy.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas Public Lands Commissioner election, 2022
General election
General election for Texas Land Commissioner
Dawn Buckingham defeated Jay Kleberg, Alfred Molison, and Carrie Menger in the general election for Texas Land Commissioner on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dawn Buckingham (R) | 56.2 | 4,463,452 |
 | Jay Kleberg (D)  | 42.1 | 3,350,291 | |
| Alfred Molison (G) | 1.7 | 133,034 | ||
 | Carrie Menger (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 1,812 | |
| Total votes: 7,948,589 | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for Texas Land Commissioner
Jay Kleberg defeated Sandragrace Martinez in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas Land Commissioner on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jay Kleberg | 52.9 | 254,273 |
 | Sandragrace Martinez | 47.1 | 225,964 | |
| Total votes: 480,237 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for Texas Land Commissioner
Dawn Buckingham defeated Tim Westley in the Republican primary runoff for Texas Land Commissioner on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dawn Buckingham | 68.8 | 595,554 |
 | Tim Westley | 31.2 | 270,365 | |
| Total votes: 865,919 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Land Commissioner
Sandragrace Martinez and Jay Kleberg advanced to a runoff. They defeated Jinny Suh and Michael Lange in the Democratic primary for Texas Land Commissioner on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sandragrace Martinez | 31.8 | 313,780 |
| ✔ | | Jay Kleberg | 26.0 | 257,034 |
 | Jinny Suh | 21.9 | 216,238 | |
 | Michael Lange | 20.2 | 199,764 | |
| Total votes: 986,816 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Land Commissioner
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Texas Land Commissioner on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dawn Buckingham | 41.9 | 679,125 |
| ✔ | | Tim Westley | 14.8 | 239,473 |
 | Jon Spiers | 12.6 | 203,879 | |
 | Don Minton | 10.6 | 171,001 | |
 | Victor Avila | 7.5 | 121,998 | |
 | Weston Martinez | 6.6 | 107,219 | |
| Rufus Lopez | 3.1 | 49,475 | ||
 | Ben Armenta | 3.0 | 48,029 | |
| Total votes: 1,620,199 | |||
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Green convention
Green convention for Texas Land Commissioner
Alfred Molison advanced from the Green convention for Texas Land Commissioner on April 9, 2022.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Alfred Molison (G) | |
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Campaign finance
2010
Kleberg was defeated by Dee Margo in the March 2 Republican primary.[2]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jay Kleberg completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kleberg's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I have the experience and the knowledge necessary to lead the General Land Office into the future – a future where Texas leads the country in the fight against climate change with a diversified energy portfolio and a strengthened grid. For too long, this office has been viewed as a stepping stone, and we have elected Land Commissioners without the necessary experience to do this job. This office is our state’s top environmental post, and our state is already feeling the effects of climate change. We cannot afford to elect another Land Commissioner lacking the experience necessary to do this job and do it well.
- Whether it be my upbringing on a working ranch in South Texas, my work conserving and managing wild lands in my role as Associate Director and Director of Conservation Initiatives with Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, or the time I spent covering the state building Explore Ranches to maintain rural working lands, I have spent my working life in land conservation. I believe loving Texas and accepting the science behind climate change go hand-in-hand. Equipped with land management experience, a deep understanding of our state’s environmental challenges, and an MBA from the University of Texas, I’m ready to get to work.
- The Texas Land Commissioner––as the state’s top environmental post––has the power and the responsibility to address climate change. Texas is the #1 emitter of carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas, in the nation. The GLO can help fight climate change in three specific ways: by employing large-scale carbon capture and sequestration storage on state-owned lands, by diversifying the GLO’s energy portfolio through geothermal and renewable energy, thereby reducing the states carbon footprint, and by increasing the standards by which we are investing in coastal resiliency to meet the demands of climate change.
The General Land Office can contribute up to $600M annually to the Texas Permanent School Fund, which funds public K-12 education. In recent years, this office and its contribution to the Texas Permanent School Fund have been used as a political chess piece. I would push to not only allocate the full $600M annually to the Permanent School Fund, but work with the legislature to increase the limit on how much the GLO could contribute annually.
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Campaign website
Kleberg's campaign website stated the following:
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RESPECT THE LAND The Texas Land Commissioner is our state's top environmental post. As climate change brings increased instability, including longer and more frequent power outages that place the most vulnerable at greater risk, we need to take a proactive role in conserving a resilient landscape while also reducing or mitigating our CO2 emissions. FUND OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE AND SUPPORT OUR VETERANS The Texas General Land Office manages Texas' 13 million acres of public lands to provide funding to serve Texas schoolchildren and veterans. While royalties from oil and gas leases are a critical revenue stream, the General Land Office must champion a diversified portfolio of renewable energy such as geothermal, wind, solar and offshore hydrogen production. A diversified portfolio will reposition the General Land Office to keep its promises to Texas veterans and their families for the long term. PROTECT THE STATE’S PUBLIC AND ECONOMIC HEALTH As Texas shifts to a low-carbon economy, it is critical that Texas maintain its leadership in energy. We must protect the workers and communities who have been at the center of powering Texas’s economy for decades, while promoting energy innovation that leads to economic growth and good-paying jobs.[3] |
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| —Jay Kleberg's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Candidate Texas Land Commissioner |
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Footnotes
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Jay Kleberg," accessed February 11, 2022
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State "Election Results for March 2, 2010 Primary" accessed on June 4, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jay Kleberg for Texas Land Commissioner, “Home,” accessed January 23, 2022
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