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V. Alonzo Echavarria-Garza Libertarian

Comptroller of Public Accounts

About this race: The Comptroller collects taxes. Its Democratic nominee sits in the Texas Senate and has filed cannabis regulation, decriminalisation and constitutional-amendment bills across four legislatures, and voted against the hemp-THC ban. Eleven documented acts in a race nobody would think to check.

V. Alonzo Echavarria-GarzaLibertarian

No source of this candidate’s own is on this card. Everything below was published by someone else. So the absence of a cannabis position here is weaker evidence than it looks: it may mean only that this candidate has not published a platform anywhere we have found, or has published one somewhere we are not permitted to read.

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 V. Alonzo Echavarria-Garza, and the limits on it

Checked on 2026-09-18: his Community Impact comptroller questionnaire and the Libertarian Party of Texas candidate listing, neither of which carries a cannabis, marijuana, THC or hemp statement. He holds no Texas legislative office, so there is no roll call or bill authorship to search. The Libertarian Party platform addresses cannabis, but a party document is not an act by this candidate.

Re-read independently on 2026-09-20: the Community Impact question-and-answer with the four comptroller candidates, which carries his own answers. None of these contains the word cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC or CBD.

Also checked on 2026-09-21: Ballotpedia, which has no article for this candidate under any spelling of their name that we could find.

⚠️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.

⚠️Whether this candidate has a campaign site of their own is an open question here, and not a negative answer. This guide has not found one. It no longer claims to have looked in a way that could settle it, because the method this card used to cite was put to a case it was known to have passed and came back just as empty there. So if this candidate publishes a platform of their own, this guide may simply not have reached it, and the absence of a cannabis position below is weaker evidence than it looks.

Read in full on 2026-10-16: Ballotpedia now publishes a profile for this candidate, at ballotpedia.org/V._Alonzo_Echavarria-Garza, and it contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use; it records that he has not yet completed Ballotpedia's 2026 Candidate Connection survey. The sentence above about Ballotpedia records what the spellings we tried returned on 2026-09-21, and is kept as it was.

This card has been corrected. What earlier versions of it said, and what was wrong with them, 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 V. Alonzo Echavarria-Garza

Pages read in full:

  • onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=25559866 — sections on the page: Qualifications; Budget Surplus; Budget Management; Efficiency — 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.
  • votetheperson.org/candidates/v-alonzo-echavarria-garza — sections on the page: Candidate; Your match; Record; Sources — the whole of the independent candidate tracker Vote the Person's page for this candidate, read in full by us on 2026-10-06. The page states the office or district we have on file, so the identification is confirmed, and it cites 5 source(s) of its own. It publishes no marijuana or cannabis position for this candidate, and no cannabis or hemp word appears anywhere on the page. ⚠️That is a second organisation reporting an empty search, not a statement by the candidate.
  • communityimpact.com/central-austin/election/q-a-meet-the-4-candidates-running-for-texas-comptroller — sections on the page: a questionnaire published 2026-09-10 recording that he did not respond
  • www.lptexas.org/Candidates — sections on the page: a party roster giving his name and office only
  • www.texastribune.org/2026/09/29/texas-comptroller-2026-election-huffines-eckhardt — sections on the page: The Texas Tribune's guide to the 2026 comptroller race, published 2026-09-29 and read in full by us on 2026-10-16 (HTTP 200). Its entry for this candidate gives his campaign finances and experience. No cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin or Compassionate Use appears anywhere on the page.
  • ballotpedia.org/V._Alonzo_Echavarria-Garza — sections on the page: This candidate's Ballotpedia profile, read in full by us on 2026-10-16 (HTTP 200; the address spelled Echevarria leads to the same profile). It records his 2026 nomination at the Libertarian convention and his 2022 comptroller candidacy, and that he has not yet completed Ballotpedia's 2026 Candidate Connection survey and did not complete its 2022 one. No cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin or Compassionate Use appears on the page.
  • sanantonioreport.org/profile/v-alonzo-echavarria-garza — sections on the page: The San Antonio Report's candidate profile, published 2026-07-14 and read by us on 2026-10-16 (HTTP 200): biography only, with no issue answers. No cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC or CBD appears on it.
  • theballotbrief.com/candidate/v-alonzo-echavarria-garza-tx — sections on the page: The Ballot Brief's candidate profile, a guide that says its entries are researched and written with AI, read by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). It names him as the Libertarian nominee for comptroller and states that no campaign website was found as of September 3, 2026; that is its finding, not ours. None of cannabis, cannabinoid, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, Compassionate Use or decriminalisation appears on the page.
  • branch.vote/races/2026-texas-general-election-tx-state-comptroller-of-public-accounts-tx-state/candidates/v-alonzo-echavarriagarza — sections on the page: Branch's candidate page, read by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). None of cannabis, cannabinoid, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, Compassionate Use or decriminalisation appears on the page, in its text or its page source.

Could not be read, so nothing is concluded from them:

  • www.decodethevote.com/candidate/cand-txsos-v-alonzo-echavarria-garza-33572 — ⚠️Not read: www.decodethevote.com did not give us a usable robots.txt — robots.txt answered HTTP 429 — not consent — so we never learned whether we are permitted to read it, and this guard fails closed rather than guessing in our own favour.

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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. V. Alonzo Echavarria-Garza 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.

Search campaign filings at the Texas Ethics Commission (ethics.state.tx.us) → — choose Transaction Type “Contributions” and search by name.

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 V. Alonzo Echavarria-Garza 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.