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Kevin McCormick Green

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 Kevin McCormick’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.

Kevin McCormickGreen
88/100 support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100 thin — one or two records produced this number · 2 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.

  • 2026-10-13 questionnaire — His only printed words call for decriminalising possession of hemp-derived products, with exceptions for sales to minors and evasion of regulations. That is support for reducing penalties; these words do not themselves call for legal sales or full legalisation, so the answer is read as +1, as other decriminalisation-only answers on this site are, counted as +1 at weight 2
  • 2026-09-20 questionnaire — Argues in his own words for legalising or decriminalising marijuana. That is support for adult legal access, not merely medical, counted as +2 at weight 2

Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 1.5. Full method and the bill table.

  • Said2026-03-21

    Campaign site lists three top legislative priorities, the second of which is to "Invest in the rural economy to establish family farm greenhouse food production cooperatives, provide a solid foundation for hemp production and processing, improve infrastructure and promote sustainable agriculture".

    ⚠️This is a hemp farming position only: hemp appears solely as an agricultural crop, and the page contains no statement about THC, marijuana or legalization. The page carries no date: 2026-03-21 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.

    WeedVoter’s note — shown here, but deliberately left out of the score: Hemp appears only as an agricultural crop, with nothing about THC, marijuana or legal access, so it sets no direction on access.

    kmm2026.org, web.archive.org

  • Questionnaire2026-09-20

    In his Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey, which the page states he completed in 2026, under a heading titled The War on Drugs Promotes Crime he writes: "Marijuana use is common and arguably less harmful than either tobacco or alcohol."; "Legalizing marijuana does not lead to increased crime or social ills."; and "Decriminalizing or making it legal will only reduce the number of people charged with possession crimes and incarcerated for marijuana charges."

    ⚠️The survey carries no date beyond the year and the Internet Archive holds no capture of the page, so 2026-09-20 is the date it was read, not a publication date.

    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.

    The guide prints one written comment from him, beside the civil-fine question: "Possession of hemp-derived products should be decriminalized except for particular circumstances such as sales to minors or evasion of regulations." 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 answer is 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 90462, filed as “McCormick, Kevin”, treasurer appointment for Lieutenant Governor, dated 2025-12-10.

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 90462. 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 Kevin McCormick 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.