Arthur DiBianca Libertarian

Railroad Commissioner

About this race: The Railroad Commission regulates oil and gas and has nothing to do with cannabis — which is why this race is easy to miss. Its Democratic nominee sits in the Texas House and filed a bill in both 2023 and 2025 to repeal marijuana offenses outright, alongside votes against the hemp-THC ban. A guide organised by office would never surface that.

Arthur DiBiancaLibertarian

100/100 support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100 thin — one or two records produced this number · 1 of 1 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.

2014-10-31 statement — Wrote that he would file a bill to end marijuana prohibition and support medical and penalty-reduction bills. That is support for legal access, though it is from a 2014 campaign for another office. It is the only record on file for him, so there is nothing newer for it to be weighed against, counted as +2 at weight 0.6

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

Said2014-10-31

A campaign issues page from his 2014 run for the Texas House carried a plank headed End the War on Drugs, listing among the steps he would take: "I would vote for a bill to allow medical marijuana like HB 1491, filed last year by Rep. Naishtat (Democrat from Austin)."; "I would vote for a bill to reduce marijuana penalties like HB 548, filed last year by Rep. Dutton (Democrat from Houston)."; and "I would file a bill to end prohibition of marijuana."

⚠️This is twelve years old and from a campaign for a different office. The page carries no date; 2014-10-31 is an Internet Archive capture date, the original domain no longer resolves, and his current Railroad Commission campaign site is silent on the subject.

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Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission

Texas Ethics Commission filer 52055, filed as “DiBianca, Arthur”, treasurer appointment for Railroad Commissioner, dated 2025-12-02.

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 52055. 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.

Any grouping of contributors into an industry is weedvoter’s own classification, applied to employer and committee names exactly as filed. The Commission publishes employers and committees; it never publishes industries. OpenSecrets discontinued its public interface in April 2025, so nothing here is an OpenSecrets classification.

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 Arthur DiBianca 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.