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News Release: Interview with Texas Monthly Evan Smith, April 15, 2008
April 15, 2008

Listen to Susan talk in an interview with Texas Monthly about the factors keeping Texas’ economy strong.

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Susan Combs, Texas Comptroller“I will continue to work hard to earn and maintain your trust. You can count on me to stick to my conservative philosophy because I know that, working together, we can provide more opportunity for the next generation of Texans.”

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Susan Combs

Accomplishments as Texas' Comptroller - in the first six months!

  • Brought openness and transparency to the Comptroller’s office by posting all of agency’s expenditures online.
  • Transferred administrative hearings on tax disputes to the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH). This was a significant step, because current policy had the Comptroller’s office serving as both judge and the jury on disputes.
  • Released first significant research report, “Counting Costs and Calories
    — Measuring the Cost of Obesity to Texas Employers.” Obesity alone cost Texas businesses an estimated $3.3 billion in 2005.
  • Unclaimed property backlog dropped by 35 percent, so Texans got their
    money back!
  • Savings in publications, in printing and postage — $156,000 saved, and another $250,000 eliminated on duplicate report.
  • Tightened up tax case steps, so taxpayers have fair and ethical process.
  • “Where the Money Goes” Web site link available allowing public to obtain
    information on how the state spends money. The Web site will grow as CPA
    procurement and state procurement improves.

Experience

Susan Combs served two terms as a state Representative. She championed private property rights, reforms in education, juvenile justice, and tort reform laws. For the last eight years, Combs has served as Agriculture Commissioner, successfully changing policies to positively affect the increasing problem of childhood obesity and developing innovative programs to promote Texas agriculture products and to help economic development in rural parts of the state. Texans overwhelmingly elected Susan to a four-year term as Comptroller in November 2006.