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Texas deserves someone managing our money who understands everyday Texans. We also need someone who understands smart spending.

We've never had an accountant as our state accountant, and it shows.

My name is Janet Tycelia Dudding, and I’m running for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, the state's accountant.

As a certified public accountant, I’ve spent my adult life auditing, accounting for, administering and investigating state and local governments and their grants, taxes, procurement, spending and reporting. In other words – I understand how the system works and how we could better utilize it to our advantage.

Right now we’re overpaying for services that don’t offer any real benefits. We’re paying $100M MORE in state taxes to DENY comprehensive mental healthcare. We’re letting our property taxes pick up the tab when indigent care becomes crisis care. We’re letting corporations skate on property tax giveaways.

We need to do better and spend smarter. Plain and simple.

When I look at the numbers, I see HUGE opportunity here in Texas. From healthcare to the environment, to creating jobs and new revenue streams – I’m qualified, care deeply, and ready to put in the work.

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What IS a Comptroller and why is it important?

I am so happy to be your nominee for Comptroller of Public Accounts – the state’s accountant, treasurer and CFO (and, here in Texas, our renewable energy developer and protector of endangered species)…

I’m Janet Dudding, CPA, running to be your next Comptroller, which is the state’s accountant – and, yes, we have never had an accountant as our accountant – and it shows.

“ We’ve never elected an accountant as our state accountant? And it shows... ”

Now, I know it’s hard for a lot of people to get fired up about the Comptroller’s office, but I sure am, because if ever there was a perfect job for me, this is it. And let me tell you why.

As a single mother, I averaged 20 hrs a semester to earn my accounting degree. Started working full time for the Mississippi State Auditor’s Office, threw myself into my MBA program and became a CPA.

But I’m a different kind of CPA. That first job out of school was actually investigating allegations that ELECTED OFFICIALS were embezzling taxpayer money or taking kickbacks. I helped lay the groundwork for "Operation Pretense," which put over 50 corrupt politicians in prison for procurement fraud.

I’ve spent my adult life in state and local governmental audit, accounting, administration – and even investigation. It’s my wheelhouse – my life’s work. It’s what I do.

The Texas State Government is a $200 billion dollar enterprise. And Glenn Hegar, the person who’s supposed to be making sure the system is honest, is a creature of the system himself. So what do we get?

We get NO ACCOUNTABILITY for Greg Abbot

• Who can’t keep the lights on in the energy capital of the world,

NO ACCOUNTABILITY for Ken Paxton

• An indicted felon who SPENT TEXAS TAXPAYER DOLLARS to challenge the federal election outcome IN OTHER STATES and who fired up the insurrection,

And we get no accountability to the 29 million Texans who pay their taxes every year and expect their elected officials to be good stewards of those tax dollars.

And who’s better than a certified public accountant to make sure. we have. accountability.

Texas needs a watchdog – instead, we’ve got ourselves a lapdog.

“ Texas needs a watch-dog, and we've got ourselves a lap-dog. ”

Y’all. This matters.

It matters because when Greg Abbott wants to award no-bid contracts with his border stunt which, by the way, crippled the entire US economy, it’s Glenn Hegar who lets him do it.

It matters because when corporations exploit property tax loopholes and stick us with the bill, it’s Glenn Hegar who lets them do it.

It matters because when you have a political hack minding the store and a bunch of his buddies are trying to shoplift, Glenn Hegar lets them do it.

Texas can’t afford Glenn Hegar.

It. Matters.

It matters because the Comptroller is supposed to be responsible for our renewable energy development in Texas — a place where we have really smart people in the energy field — and Glenn Hegar is threatening to punish companies who diversify their energy portfolio – and that’s wasting our pension fund dollars. Now Texas teachers haven’t gotten a COLA in 2 decades and instead THIS GUY is wasting our pension money on punishing renewable energy – which is something he’s supposed to be helping promote – y’all, THAT’s MESSED up

And speaking of doing the wrong thing…

...it’s Glenn Hegar

who’s making sure

Texas does not. Do. Business.

With companies that boycott gun manufacturers.

That’s an ethically sketchy position if you ask me, and it’s not a good financial move either. It’s costing Texas hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s raising our interest rates and wasting our property tax dollars.

But that’s who Glenn Hegar is.

Y’all remember Wendy Davis’ fillbuster? That was Glenn Hegar’s bill. And now he’s publicly pledged that fighting against LGBTQ rights is a FIGHT WORTH DYING FOR. When he shows you who he is, believe him.

He’s the kind of guy who keeps closer tabs on the folks he wants to punish than he does on how Greg Abbot spends our tax dollars.

Now, I’m a Democrat, and a proud Democrat…but I still don’t love paying taxes. So when I see those dollars wasted, mis-spent, mis-appropriated and mis-used, it ticks me off.

And Glenn Hegar lets them do it.

Now, I can go on and on about all the things the Comptroller can do and should do and will do when I’m in office.

From expanding rural broadband…

to helping to create new revenue for education and mental health by legalizing adult-use cannabis…

to actually helping create highly-skilled well-paying jobs to grow the energy market here in Texas…and by the way, fixing the damn grid smart... by adding storage capacity through bi-directional electric vehicles

to fully funding public education, paying our teachers a decent salary, and letting them have Social Security… like every other employee in this country

So, I’ll leave you with this.

Our current comptroller, Glenn Hegar, loves to call himself “the CFO of the 9th largest economy in the world” – in national terms, that’s the 2nd largest economy in the nation.

Now governments exist to provide services, so let’s look at how our current CFO is doing.

We’re

• 45th in Public Ed

• 43rd in Public Health

• 41st in air and water quality

We are the 2nd largest economy in the nation – Texans deserve world class services.

We can do better. We need to do better. And it’s within our power to do better. It’s actually all in the palm of our hand -- We just need to vote – the bums out and vote FOR the best ticket we’ve seen in the last 20 years - and I’m so excited to a part of the ticket to bring accountability, integrity and world class services to the people of Texas!

“ Y'all, it matters. ”

“ Texas can't afford Glenn Hegar. ”