Texas Senate, District 9
About this race: A Dallas-Fort Worth area district. Taylor Rehmet, the Democratic nominee, has held the seat since winning a special election runoff in 2026, after the Legislature’s 2025 cannabis and hemp roll calls, so neither candidate appears in one. Each was checked against the same sources.
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
Leigh Wambsganss’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
Texas Senate, District 9 race page.
Leigh WambsganssRepublican
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support for legal access — bottom band, 0 to 33
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.
- 2025-10-13 questionnaire — Answered that THC should not be generally available and should be limited to physician supervision, counted as -2 at weight 2
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Questionnaire2025-10-13
Answered the Fort Worth Star-Telegram voter guide question "What should the Texas Legislature do, if anything, to address the state’s hemp and THC product industry?", in the guide published 2025-10-13 ahead of the November 2025 special election for this seat: "THC is a powerful drug that should not be available on every street corner. It should be available to those who can benefit from it while under the care and supervision of a physician."
The Star-Telegram republished both candidates’ answers on 2026-09-17, when they met again for a full term.
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Who is paying for this campaign
Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission
Texas Ethics Commission filer 89820, filed as
“Wambsganss, Leigh”, treasurer appointment for State Senator, District 9, dated 2025-06-27.
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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“Contributions”, then Search By “Filer ID” and enter
89820. 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 Leigh Wambsganss 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.