Glenn Hegar wins GOP comptroller primary after Harvey Hilderbran bows out of runoff The leading Republican candidate for comptroller, state Sen. Glenn Hegar of Katy, finally claimed the GOP nomination Friday after the second-place finisher in Tuesday’s primary bowed out. State Rep. Harvey Hilderbran of Kerrville announced Friday that he would withdraw from a runoff, allowing Hegar to turn his focus to Democrat Mike Collier, the Houston businessman he will face in the November general election. Hegar’s vote count hovered just below the majority threshold he needed to win without the runoff. With thousands of provisional and overseas ballots still outstanding, Hegar still might have cleared the mark, but the final count will not be done until next week at the earliest. Hilderbran garnered just 26 percent of the vote in the four-person race and would have struggled to raise the money to mount a competitive campaign. “I ran for this office to enact a plan to improve the comptroller’s office for taxpayers and I am excited that Glenn has agreed to work together to enact much of my platform, for the benefit of all taxpayers,” Hilderbran said in a statement. Hegar thanked Hilderbran for years of service in the Texas House, where he was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee for [...] newsintx/glenn-hegar-wins-gop-comptroller-primary-after-harvey-hilderbran-bows-out-of-runoff/
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:30:31 +0000
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