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Cate Brennan Democrat

Texas House, District 98

About this race: A Dallas-Fort Worth area district. No candidate on this ballot holds Texas legislative office, so none appears in a 2025 cannabis or hemp roll call. What each candidate has said or answered is listed below in date order, each with its own source.

Cate BrennanDemocrat
100/100 support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100 moderate — three to five records produced this number · 3 of 3 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.

  • 2026-02-16 questionnaire — Answered that Texas should legalise THC and marijuana for medicinal and recreational use, counted as +2 at weight 2
  • 2026-02-16 questionnaire — Described herself as a proponent of legalising marijuana, counted as +2 at weight 2
  • 2026-02-03 questionnaire — Said Texas should legalise THC and marijuana for medicinal and recreational use, citing tax revenue from other states, counted as +2 at weight 2

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

  • Questionnaire2026-02-03

    Answered the Dallas Morning News candidate questionnaire in its 2026 voter guide. The paper asked every candidate in the race: "How do you think the president’s executive order to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug will affect THC regulation in Texas?" The answer given was: "I believe that Texas should comply with the new federal reclassification to make THC/hemp and marijuana a Schedule 1 drug in November 2026.

    This will increase tax revenue, which can be allocated to education, affordability and health priorities. It will also allow normal banking to occur and medically benefit veterans and other patients with chronic or terminal illnesses. Additionally, I believe Texas should leapfrog the issue altogether a legalize THC and marijuana for medicinal and recreational use. Legalizing marijuana will provide substantial new tax revenue that is needed to address the expansion of Medicaid, pay for universal childcare, fund public schools and address ongoing affordability issues.

    California's cannabis tax revenue exceeded $500 million in the first half of 2025. The state has collected over $7.3 billion in total cannabis tax revenue since January 2018. In only its second year, New York collected an estimated $140 million in tax revenue from legalized marijuana."

    dallasnews.com, dallasnews.com

  • Questionnaire2026-02-16

    Answered the Fort Worth Report candidate questionnaire question "What is your stance on banning or regulating THC products?", published 2026-02-16: "I believe Texas should leapfrog the issue altogether and legalize THC and marijuana for medicinal and recreational use. Legalizing marijuana will provide substantial new tax revenue that is needed to address the expansion of Medicaid, pay for universal childcare, fund public schools and address ongoing affordability issues."

    fortworthreport.org

  • Questionnaire2026-02-16

    In the same questionnaire, answering on property tax relief, said: "This is why I am a proponent of legalizing gambling and marijuana."

    fortworthreport.org

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Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission

We could not match a Commission filer number to this name. The Commission’s list of candidates who have appointed a campaign treasurer carried no single row matching both the surname and the given name on the ballot for this seat, so none was guessed at. Cate Brennan may have filed under a different form of their name.

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.

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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 Cate Brennan 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.