Former state Sen. Don Huffines and ex-Republican Party of Texas Chair Allen West have each made careers out of championing conservative values.
Republican Texas gubernatorial candidates Don Huffines, left, and Allen West before a forum in College Station last month., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Their platforms call for drastically reducing property taxes or eliminating them outright. They say they would replace that revenue, which funds everything from Texas schools and city streets to local governments, with a much larger consumption tax — though neither candidate has named the amount by which they’d want to raise Texas’ 6.25% state sales tax.
Huffines, a former real estate developer from Dallas, is known as someone who actually lives by the conservative values he espouses, according to those who know him. “He relished people asking him about why he was doing something,” said Mitch Ceasar, who served as chair of the Broward County Democratic Party during West’s congressional term in that part of Florida. “Part of his intelligence is his desire to stake out a niche that's a little further out there than anybody else to get attention.”During West’s 22 years in the military, he was deployed during the Gulf War and the Iraq War and achieved the title of lieutenant colonel.
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