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Anthony Cristo Libertarian

Lieutenant Governor

About this race: The incumbent presided over the chamber that passed the hemp-THC ban and has stated both support for the medical program and opposition to any recreational pathway. His main opponent voted against the ban and campaigns on regulating THC instead. Both records are below.

Whose record this page shows. The paragraph above is about the race, and part of it describes a different person. Everything after this line on this page is Anthony Cristo’s own record and nothing else — including, where it says so, the finding that no record was located. Every record the paragraph above describes is set out candidate by candidate on the Lieutenant Governor race page.

Anthony CristoLibertarian
100/100 support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100 moderate — three to five records produced this number · 4 of 4 records scored
How this score is worked out

Seven kinds of act move this number, and they do not count equally. A recorded vote counts 3, and so does authoring a bill or signing an executive action; signing on to somebody else’s bill counts 2. A statement or a questionnaire answer counts 2 as well, and an organisational endorsement counts 1. A vote takes its direction from the bill, whose effect is set out in advance; the rest take it from our reading of what was said, and each one below shows that reading and the reason for it. Acts shown with no number were examined and deliberately left out of the arithmetic, with a reason given.

  • 2026-10-13 questionnaire — Wrote "Complete and total legalization." and "Legalize for everyone. Medical and recreational use." in reply to a survey on medical cannabis, possession penalties, legal possession and a legal adult-use market: support for full adult legal access, counted as +2 at weight 2
  • 2026-06-02 questionnaire — Named ending marijuana prohibition as one of three key campaign messages, counted as +2 at weight 2
  • 2026-05-10 statement — Campaign site calls for legalising marijuana in Texas, counted as +2 at weight 2
  • 2026-01-08 questionnaire — Named decriminalisation of marijuana as the policy area needing immediate attention, counted as +2 at weight 2

Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 2. Full method and the bill table.

  • Questionnaire2026-01-08

    Answered the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey question "What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?": "One area of public policy that I feel needs immediate attention is the decriminalization of marijuana. In the United States, cannabis is legal in 40 of the 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. Marijuana is a safer recreational drug than alcohol. If you drink until you pass out, there is the possibility that you may never wake up due to alcohol poisoning.

    However, if a person smokes until the pass out, they will wake up without the threat of death. It is time to decriminalize marijuana for recreational use and use the tax money to help with addiction programs for all substances and alleviate the burden of property taxes." Ballotpedia records that these responses were submitted on January 8, 2026.

    ballotpedia.org

  • Said2026-05-10

    Campaign site carries an issues section headed "End Dan Patrick's War on Drugs" calling for legalizing marijuana in Texas: "Most Americans support it, and even in Texas, Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians all agree it should at least be decriminalized." The same section states that the war on drugs "wastes taxpayer money, fuels black markets and violence, and punishes people for personal choices." The page carries no date: 2026-05-10 is the date of the earliest Internet Archive capture containing this text, a capture date and not a publication date, so the position was published by at least then.

    anthonycristo.com, web.archive.org

  • Questionnaire2026-06-02

    Named ending marijuana prohibition as one of three key messages of the campaign in a Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey, answering "Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign": "Ending the War on Marijuana. Current lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, has made it his life's mission to make all marijuana use illegal in Texas. Meanwhile, over a decades of data has shown that legalizing marijuana did not increase usage but actually reduced the crime statistics surrounding it.

    Additionally, the revenue generated from legal sales have been an economic boon to every state that has medical and recreational marijuana sales. The sales tax alone from legal sales would easily generate an additional $400 million to $1.1 billion to the state. This, along with our current budget surplus, could mean funding schools properly and lowering property taxes." Ballotpedia records that these responses were submitted on June 2, 2026.

    ballotpedia.org

  • Questionnaire2026-10-13

    Answered the 2026 candidate survey of the Marijuana Policy Project, a national cannabis-policy advocacy organisation, and the Texas Cannabis Policy Center, whose 2026 Texas Voter Guide prints the written comments of Senate and statewide candidates who replied. The survey asked four questions: whether to expand the Texas medical cannabis program to allow patients cannabis flower; whether limited possession of THC hemp products and up to one ounce of flower should be a civil fine of up to $100; whether cannabis and THC products should be legal to possess for adults 21 and older; and whether a legal, regulated market should be created for adult-use sales.

    His four written comments, in the order the guide prints them, are: "Legalize for everyone. Medical and recreational use.", "No fines for possession of any amount.", "Adults should have the right to choose for themselves what they want to put in their body, not the state." and "Complete and total legalization." The guide's headings beside his second and third comments do not follow the order of the four questions, so the comments are given in the order printed and are not assigned to individual questions.

    The guide prints no response dates; the date given is the Last-Modified date the publisher's own server returns for the guide's PDF edition (2026-10-13), the earliest date the answers are documented as published. The guide also prints the organisation's own letter grade and support headings for each candidate; those are its characterisations, not the candidate's words, and are not reproduced here.

    mpp.org

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Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission

Texas Ethics Commission filer 90296, filed as “Cristo, Anthony D.”, treasurer appointment for Lieutenant Governor, dated 2025-11-12. The name on the filing is not word-for-word the name on the ballot — both are printed above so you can check the pairing yourself before you rely on it.

Why there are no figures and no industry breakdown here. Texas does not require a candidate to report a contributor’s employer or occupation — the Commission’s own 2026 guide asks for the amount, the contributor’s name and address, and the date, and that is all. So there is nothing in these filings to group into industries, and we have built no such grouping rather than imply one. Separately, the Commission’s bulk filing archive tells automated readers to stay out of it, and we honour that, so we have read no individual Texas contribution record. Treat the itemised question as unchecked by us, not as checked and found empty.

Read this filer’s own reports at the Texas Ethics Commission (ethics.state.tx.us) → — choose Transaction Type “Contributions”, then Search By “Filer ID” and enter 90296. The Commission’s search posts its results, so there is no direct link to one filer’s page; the number above is what makes it one step instead of a hunt.

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Money received is not a position. Everything on this card is money that changed hands. It is not evidence that any contribution influenced any decision, nothing on it is placed beside a roll call, and we make no claim about anyone’s motive. For what Anthony Cristo has actually done about cannabis, read the record above on this page — the roll calls, the bills that carry their name, and the date of each one, every entry linked to the document it came from. That is the part of this page built to be judged, and it is the part the score is calculated from. No contribution on this card moves that score by a cent.