{"id":477937,"date":"2026-10-27T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477937\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:20:08","slug":"im-electing-you-for-what-texas-land-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477937\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m electing you for what? Texas Land Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; Texas voters will elect a Land Commissioner Nov. 3 \u2014 think Texas\u2019 landlord-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The job runs the state\u2019s oldest agency, the Texas General Land Office, according to the General Land Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The office manages 13 million acres of state land and oil and mineral leases that generate billions for the state, according to the General Land Office and the Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That revenue goes into the Permanent School Fund, created in 1876, which pays out to public schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But there\u2019s more. The land commissioner chairs the Veterans Land Board, overseeing low-cost land and home loans for Texas veterans, plus veterans homes and cemeteries, including the cemetery in Killeen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">And the list goes on. The office handles disaster recovery, federal flood protection funds, protects the coast, manages the Alamo and archives state land records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Seeking the job are incumbent Republican Dawn Buckingham, Democrat Benjamin Flores and Libertarian Neill Snider, according to Texas Secretary of State ballot information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Early voting runs Oct. 19-30. For registration and polling information, visit VoteTexas.gov.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; Texas voters will elect a Land Commissioner Nov. 3 \u2014 think Texas\u2019 landlord-in-chief. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-477937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}