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CPA Janet Dudding Announces Campaign for Texas House District 14

Committed to stopping Gov. Abbott’s voucher scheme, defending academic integrity, and restoring accountability in Austin

Bryan–College Station, Texas — Monday, Dec 8 — Certified Public Accountant and longtime governmental auditor Janet Dudding today announced her campaign for Texas House District 14, pledging to fight Governor Greg Abbott’s voucher agenda, protect academic integrity, and bring honest, accountable leadership to state government.

Dudding has more than four decades’ experience in governmental audit, investigations, and public finance. Her background includes laying the groundwork for criminal convictions of public officials’ embezzlement and procurement fraud, restoring financial integrity in cities and agencies, and serving in key finance roles for both the City of College Station and Brazos Valley Council of Governments. Dudding also served as professional academic business staff at Texas A&M University.

“I don’t like paying taxes, and it really makes me angry when those taxes are wasted,” Dudding said. “Austin is wasting our money on corruption, no-bid contracts, and a voucher scheme that gives private schools more public funding per child than the classrooms that serve our kids. HD-14 deserves a CPA who knows how to hold government accountable.

Aggie values are more than just words on the MSC.”

Dudding draws a sharp contrast with her opponent, who was hand-picked from a private school governing board to carry the governor’s voucher plan through the State Legislature.

“Public money belongs in public schools,” she said. “Our governor pocketed a $6 million out of state donation to his campaign to ram vouchers through and give billions of our tax dollars to out of state companies. Stripping money from our public schools – not in our best interests. I’ll stand up for this community’s families, teachers, and students.”

Her affordability agenda includes:

• Decriminalizing and regulating adult-use THC to generate revenue for public education, health care, housing, and meaningful property tax relief.

• Protecting teacher retirement, while adding public school employees to social security in addition to TRS – just like the TRS members at A&M.

• Expanding broadband through public and cooperative partnerships so that municipalities can provide broadband utilities at an affordable price. We’ve got tax-payer funded broadband capacity right here in the Brazos Valley that we cannot access due to a state law currently on the books. Let’s fix it.

• Guarding our water. For the past 100 years, oil & gas’s the engine that runs our economy here in Texas, but you can’t drink oil – as we are finding out all over Texas. From produced water to data centers, we need guardrails in place before state politicians squander what we need to live – in exchange for their campaign war-chest.

Dudding is active in Brazos Valley civic life, having served as president of Texas Democratic Women of the Brazos Valley, treasurer of College Station Noon Lions Club, on the Executive Board of the Brazos County NAACP, treasurer of the Texas A&M Women’s Club, treasurer of Beverly Estates HOA, and a member of Bryan Rotary.

“Smart government is fun. Stupid government costs you money,” she said. “I’ve spent my life fixing broken systems. Austin needs someone who can read the books — and isn’t afraid to say when something’s wrong.”

The campaign will launch its website, community outreach schedule, and volunteer program in the coming days.

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About Janet Dudding
Janet Dudding is a CPA and governmental auditor with over 40 years of experience in public-sector accountability and finance. She lives in Bryan with her husband James, a member of the Texas A&M engineering faculty. They are members of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.