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Carlos De La Cruz Republican

US House, District 35

About this race: A US House seat on the 120th Congress map, covering all of Guadalupe, Karnes and Wilson counties and part of south-east Bexar County. No cannabis or hemp record was found for any candidate on this ballot, in Congress or in the Texas Legislature. Each was checked against the sources listed on their pages.

Which map this is. This seat is drawn on the 120th Congress map, the one on the 3 November ballot. Measured by area — not by population — 1.0% of it was inside district 35 on the 119th Congress map, which stands until the end of 2026; the rest came from district 15 (74%), district 28 (17%), district 23 (6.1%), district 20 (1.1%) and district 21 (1.0%). Your own district may have changed number without your address changing. Check your own address in the district finder.

Carlos De La CruzRepublican

No record compiled yet. Nothing on cannabis — no vote, bill, statement or endorsement — was found in any source we could read. 2 limits on that search are recorded with it.

What was checked for Carlos De La Cruz, and the limits on it

Checked on 2026-09-18: his campaign site at carlosforcongress.com; his San Antonio Report candidate questionnaire, published 2026-01-08 and updated 2026-07-17, whose questions do not include drug policy and whose answers raise none; Ballotpedia, where he has not completed the 2026 Candidate Connection survey; Texas Tribune and local runoff coverage; the March 2026 Austin THC forum, which he did not attend; and hemp-industry voter guides covering San Antonio, which do not name him.

This is his first run for public office, so there is no legislative record to search.

Also checked, and read in full on 2026-09-18: this candidate's Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Carlos_De_La_Cruz, including any Candidate Connection survey answers published there, which contains no mention of cannabis, marijuana, hemp, THC or CBD.

Their Ballotpedia profile was read in full on 2026-09-20 at ballotpedia.org/Carlos_De_La_Cruz (19342 characters). It contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use. When we re-read their Ballotpedia profile on 2026-10-15, it recorded that they had not completed Ballotpedia’s 2026 Candidate Connection survey.

⚠️This card does not tell you whether this candidate held a seat in an earlier Legislature, but the question is now narrower. Read on 2026-10-15, from each chamber’s own journal: the roll of members-elect that the Texas House Journal prints, district by district, on the first day of every regular session from the 75th Legislature (1997) through the 89th (2025), and every senator the Texas Senate Journal names with a district on the first day of every regular session from the 76th (1999) through the 89th.

For the 89th those are journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/89r/pdf/89RDAY01FINAL.PDF and journals.senate.texas.gov/SJRNL/89R/HTML/89RSJ01-14-F.HTM and every journal read is listed on this site’s corrections page. No one by this candidate’s name appears in any of them. That is narrower than a negative answer. Those rolls name the members seated as each session opened, and in most years the Senate’s names the senators who were not up for election by surname alone, so a member who sat only in earlier sessions, who arrived at a special election and was never named in full on a later first day, or who served under another name would not be found this way.

If this candidate is one of those, there may be a cannabis voting record this site is missing.

Also checked, and read in full on 2026-10-06: this candidate’s own campaign site at www.carlosforcongress.com — 7 pages, reached from the home page’s own links and from the site’s sitemap.xml, each fetched only after its host’s robots.txt had been checked and found to permit it, 44,919 characters of text in all. The site names him and the office he seeks, its pages are headed "Carlos De La Cruz for Congress" and its press address is press@carlosforcongress.com, and its endorsement page lists Bexar County elected officials, which is this district.

⚠️The district number itself appears nowhere on the site, so the identification rests on his name, the office and the Bexar County endorsers, and not on the site stating the district. The extracted text of those pages contains no occurrence, on a word boundary, of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, Compassionate Use, delta-8, delta-9, dispensary, decriminalize, cannabinoid or psilocybin.

This card has been corrected. What an earlier version of it said, and what was wrong with it, is published in the corrections log.

No score: this candidate has no recorded vote or bill authorship on a cannabis measure. Silence is not a position, so nothing is inferred from it.

Campaign sites and voter guides checked for Carlos De La Cruz

Pages read in full:

  • onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=25682692 — sections on the page: Qualifications; Priorities; Health Care; Immigration; Energy; Economy; Artificial Intelligence — the question set the local League of Women Voters chapter wrote for this race, read in full by us on 2026-10-06. Not one of its questions asks about cannabis, hemp or drug policy. ⚠️Against every question this Candidate's entry reads "Candidate has not yet responded", so this records an unanswered questionnaire and not a silence of their own choosing. Their entry carries no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, hemp-derived, THC, thc-a, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin, Compassionate Use, consumable hemp, SB 3, Senate Bill 3, HB 1325 or HB 46.
  • www.carlosforcongress.com their own site — sections on the page: the whole of this candidate's own campaign site as this guide read it — 7 pages, reached from the home page’s own links and from the site’s sitemap.xml, each fetched only after its host’s robots.txt had been checked and found to permit it, 44,919 characters of text in all. This row was built on 2026-10-12 out of the sentence above it in this card's own search log, which named the address and said it had been read while the list beside it did not. It records no reading that the log had not already published. Read 2026-10-17 in a fresh crawl starting from the homepage: 8 pages read at HTTP 200 (the homepage, the site’s sitemaps, every page it links to one level down, and the pages under its issues and news sections). No cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, rescheduling, Schedule iii, safer Banking or decriminalisation term on a word boundary in the text or the raw page source of any page read. The same crawler, run the same day from each homepage, found the published cannabis planks on three campaign sites used as controls.
  • sanantonioreport.org/profile/carlos-de-la-cruz-2026-candidate-for-texas-35th-congressional-district — sections on the page: The San Antonio Report’s candidate profile, first published 2026-01-08 and last updated 2026-10-08, including its "Hear from the candidate" section of the candidate’s own answers, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). None of its questions asks about cannabis, hemp or THC, and no answer of theirs contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.
  • sanantonioreport.org/tx35-candidates-meet-for-only-forum-before-election — sections on the page: A San Antonio Report report of the only candidate forum in the Texas 35th Congressional District race, published 2026-10-09, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). It quotes or paraphrases the candidate and contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.
  • www.tpr.org/government-politics/2026-10-09/in-hotly-contested-tx35-candidates-debate-affordability-immigration-and-tariffs-impact-on-business-owners — sections on the page: A Texas Public Radio written report of the Texas 35th Congressional District candidates’ debate, published 2026-10-09, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). It quotes or paraphrases the candidate and contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.
  • www.texastribune.org/2026/10/06/texas-35th-congressional-district-san-antonio-redistricting-elections — sections on the page: A Texas Tribune report on the Texas 35th Congressional District race, published 2026-10-06, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). It quotes or paraphrases the candidate and contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.

See the whole US House, District 35 race, including every opponent →

Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Federal Election Commission

Commission candidate H6TX35087, filed as “DE LA CRUZ, CARLOS JR.”, principal committee C00922013 (CARLOS FOR CONGRESS). fec.gov

Everything below covers the reporting period that ended 2026-06-30, as filed with the Commission. These figures lag the filing deadlines: money raised after that date does not appear until the next report is due, so a recent contribution is not missing, it is not yet reportable.

What we could and could not put a label on

Fraction classified: 0%. We examined $570,304 — the 90 largest employer groupings ($210,071) and 51 committee contributions ($360,233) the Commission shows for this committee — and matched $0 of it to one of our own patterns. $570,304 is listed above as unclassified.

What that figure is not. $570,304 is what we examined, not everything this campaign raised: the Commission returns the largest employer groupings rather than every contribution, and contributions too small to be itemised carry no employer at all. Read the classified fraction as a share of what we looked at.

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 Carlos De La Cruz 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.