Mike Collier for Comptroller Ad: Pokes fun at opponent's ag roots

[TexasTowelie]

KUT's political reporter Ben Philpott: Collier is an accountant. He made partner at Price Waterhouse Coopers in Houston and was also CFO of a Texas oil company. And he's focused his campaign on his experience. He released a new ad this week taking a jab at his opponent's work as a farmer and highlighting his work as an accountant. [font color=green](His opponent is Glenn Hegar who wrote the state's new abortion law in the 2013 special session.)[/font]

Collier would say he has the experience needed to put his ideas to work. His plan, like Hegar's, focuses on ending waste and abuse in state spending. He also wants to bring back the Texas Performance Review, which is an audit of state agencies and programs that focuses on wasted spending. Those reviews were removed from the Comptroller's office when lawmakers thought a previous office holder, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, was using them for political gain.

On the campaign trail, Collier likes to highlight mistakes made by the current Comptroller, Susan Combs. That includes the data breach that left the social security numbers of millions of current and former government employees unprotected, and the office's 2011 revenue estimate that ended up being wrong by $11 billion. That estimate, in part, lead to massive education cuts and a $15 billion dollar cut in the state budget.

Voters will have a chance to see how these candidate stack up in a debate on October 29th. It's being hosted by our friends over at Time Warner Cable News.

The complete article is at http://kut.org/post/whos-running-texas-comptroller-also-what-heck-comptroller .

[Gothmog]

1. Collier is a great guy

I have met him a couple of times

[DhhD]

2. Lets talk about Corporate Subsidies handed out by state and local government in those figures.

Below are some Big Corporations in receipt:

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/corporate-welfaresubsidiesboeingalcoa.html

The figures were compiled from disclosures made by state and local government agencies that subsidize companies in all sorts of ways, including cash giveaways, building and land transfers, tax abatements and steep discounts on electric and water bills.