Republican Nominee for Texas Comptroller Plans to Unleash Auditors to Find Fraud in Local Governments

Republican nominee for Texas Comptroller plans to unleash auditors to find fraud in local governments

Don Huffines easily won the GOP primary and will face Democratic state Senator Sarah Eckhardt in November.

Meet Don Huffines, the self-funding tea party activist who won the GOP Texas comptroller primary

By Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune March 6, 2026 As the 2017 legislative session churned into action, then-state Sen. Don Huffines went to a meeting with parents and students visiting the Capitol for the annual PTA Rally Day. Things quickly grew testy. One of the students, from Richardson ISD in Huffines’ North Texas Senate district, questioned the tea party Republican about his support for a proposal to offer taxpayer-funded stipends for p…

Don Huffines trounces Abbott ally to win Texas comptroller primary

The former state senator from Dallas challenged Gov. Greg Abbott from the right four years ago. He’s now in line to oversee the $1 billion voucher program championed by the governor.

Sarah Eckhardt speaks at LBJ school, discusses race for comptroller

Texas State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin, spoke about her run for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts at the LBJ Patman Center on Monday. Eckhardt, a UT alumna, has represented UT and West Campus in the state Senate since 2020 and is now serving her second regular term, which will end in 2029. She previously campaigned for Congress but switched to the comptroller race on Dec. 8, 2025. Eckhardt won the Democratic nomination for comptroller …