Shehla Faizi
What this job does: The state's chief tax collector, accountant and money forecaster. The comptroller collects state taxes, pays the state's bills and estimates how much money the state will have; the Legislature cannot pass a budget that spends more than that estimate. A term is four years.
- Occupation
- Podcaster; public relations and marketing
- Lives in
- Dallas-Fort Worth area
Background
- Raised in Pakistan; moved to Texas in 2012. source: sanantonioreport.org
- Bachelor's in graphic design from Karachi University; master's degrees in journalism and strategic communications from Wayne State University and the University of Iowa. source: click2houston.com
- Volunteered for the Green Party's 2024 presidential campaign. source: click2houston.com
In their own words
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- More openness about how tax money is spent source: click2houston.com
- No tax breaks for data centers; put money toward disaster relief and public schools source: click2houston.com
- End state rules that penalize companies for boycotting Israel, fossil fuels or gun makers source: click2houston.com
- Run voucher payments to private schools without bias against Islamic schools source: click2houston.com
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