Property Mogul Targets Top Texas Finance Job With Anti-Tax Pitch

The Texas comptroller’s office, with its spreadsheets and spending reports, doesn’t typically draw ideological firebrands. But Don Huffinesdoesn’t plan on being a typical Texas comptroller.

A Dallas-area real estate developer, Huffines has spent years trying to push Texas Republicans to the right, first as a political donor, then as a state senator and failed gubernatorial candidate. Lately, the party has been shifting his way, most recently on school vouchers – a pet issue for Huffines that Governor Greg Abbott pushed through the Legislature after trouncing him in 2022.

Huffines first won office in the anti-tax mold of the Tea ...