Bold Leadership

Gilbert Questions More Than $50,000 In Spending For Ad Spread In Texas Monthly

“This program should be working to help Main Street businesses and local ag producers employ more people and turn a bigger profit. Helping Wall Street companies and traders on the Bolsa Mexicans de Valores and corporate agribusiness is not what Go Texan was intended for,” Gilbert said.

Newly Released State Documents Highlight Need For Gilbert’s TDA Reform Plan

Gilbert: “These documents clearly show that Texas’ food supply is at risk. The patchwork quilt of regulation that exists for food safety is confusing and has gaping holes in it.”

Re-Powering Texas: Energy Diversity, Biofuels, and Texas-Style Energy Independence

Hank proposes launching the Field To Pump Biofuels Initiative, which will involve stakeholders … to more effectively generate crop production by creating a stable, efficient marketplace.

While Gilbert Talks About Issues & Reform, Incumbent Staples Focuses On Gay Marriage

“I’ve spent the last two weeks on the campaign trail talking about real reform for the Texas Department of Agriculture—from weights and measures to funding to increase agribusiness in Texas to protecting Texans from eminent domain abuses. People elect their Agriculture Commissioner to do something about agriculture, not to serve as the state’s de facto bedroom police.”

Gilbert Unveils Historic, Sweeping Reform Package For Texas Department Of Agriculture

“The Texas Department of Agriculture can and should be doing more for Texans,” Gilbert said. “TDA has the potential to become the state’s strongest consumer protection agency,” he said as he introduced the policy, which was centered around food safety and consumer protection, eminent domain reform, agency restructuring and providing economic incentives to boost Texas’ agricultural economy.

Hank Takes TDA Reform Message To West Texas

Hank Gilbert, the Texas Democratic Party’s nominee for Agriculture Commissioner, will be unveiling his comprehensive reform package for the Texas Department of Agriculture on a 23 city tour across Texas which begins Wednesday with seven stops in West Texas.

  • Hank in the News

  • Gilbert Unveils Biofuels Policy, Calls For State Investment To Make Texas Energy Independent

    Under Gilbert’s plan, the TDA would utilize funding from the Texas Agricultural Infrastructure & Economic Development Fund to provide start-up funding to agricultural producers to help grow new, non-foodstock biofuel crops and to refiners to help develop refining capacity for those products.

  • Sealed Forever: Todd Staples’ Senate Records

    Sealed Forever: Todd Staples’ Senate Records

    Staples’ legislative records join his tax returns and records concerning a vehicle purchased with campaign funds as the latest in a series of Staples’ records the incumbent Agriculture Commissioner is attempting to hide from public view.

  • Staples Uses Go Texan Program To Promote His Campaign Contributors

    Staples Uses Go Texan Program To Promote His Campaign Contributors

    “How much in state money did Todd Staples spend on this publicity stunt for one of his campaign contributors? It doesn’t look right for an officeholder to take thousands of dollars… then use every resource available to stage a massive publicity stunt….”

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  • Common Sense Leadership

  • Food Safety & Agroterrorism: Todd Staples Was All Talk, No Action

    “Staples said in 2004 that Texas was a soft target for agroterrorists, but to date he’s done nothing about it. He said food safety was a top priority but his agency has expended relatively little time, effort, and money to make our food supply more safe,” Gilbert said. “His reign as Commissioner has been nothing but a long line of broken promises to the people of Texas. It is, in fact, the only consistent thing about his tenure,” Gilbert said.

  • Gilbert Questions More Than $50,000 In Spending For Ad Spread In Texas Monthly

    Gilbert Questions More Than $50,000 In Spending For Ad Spread In Texas Monthly

    “This program should be working to help Main Street businesses and local ag producers employ more people and turn a bigger profit. Helping Wall Street companies and traders on the Bolsa Mexicans de Valores and corporate agribusiness is not what Go Texan was intended for,” Gilbert said.

  • When Staples Had Opportunity To Raise Concerns About Toll Roads, He Did Nothing

    When Staples Had Opportunity To Raise Concerns About Toll Roads, He Did Nothing

    When given the opportunity to comment by the Texas Department of Transportation on a major transportation strategic plan that was heavily slanted toward toll roads, then-Senator Todd Staples passed up the opportunity to say anything about them or how strongly they were emphasized in the plan.

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  • On the Campaign Trail

  • Can You Help Close The Gap?

    Can You Help Close The Gap?

    Hank will come to your county with some of the finest grass-fed East Texas beef you’ve tasted and cook burgers to help your local Democratic party raise funds.

  • Closing The Gap

    Closing The Gap

    It’s official! We’re closing the gap on Todd Staples! According to a new Texas Tribune Poll released this morning, Hank Gilbert is closing the gap on Todd Staples and out-performing nearly every other statewide Democratic candidate on our party’s ticket!

  • Thank You Texas Democrats - The Fight Begins Today

    Thank You Texas Democrats – The Fight Begins Today

    Last night, voters in the Texas Democratic Primary made me their nominee for Commissioner of Agriculture. I’m humbled by their support and excited by the opportunity.

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  • Watch and Listen to Hank

  • 4/28/10 - Hank on Your Radio (KSKY)

    4/28/10 – Hank on Your Radio (KSKY)

    Hear Hank discuss the proposed Arizona-Style Immigration Law that would have disastrous consequences For Texas agribusiness and local government on KSKY

  • Hank Stops by Fox4 (SETX-TV) in Beaumont (video)

    Hank Stops by Fox4 (SETX-TV) in Beaumont (video)

    Excellent interview with Fox4 (SETX-TV) in Beaumont. Take a few minutes to watch, you’ll be glad you did.

  • 2/3/10: Hank on KRLD

    2/3/10: Hank on KRLD

    Hear Hank on KLRD’s “Beyond the Headlines with Scott Braddock” onNews Radio 1080 out of Dallas.

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