Written for The Texas Observer legislative blog "Floor Pass."
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs has approved $1.2 billion in tax breaks to her campaign contributors since 2006, according to the Austin-based nonprofit Texans for Public Justice.
According to a report TPJ released Wednesday Combs has received $238,500 from companies getting the tax breaks, under a statewide economic incentive program since her first run for comptroller in 2006. Most of the 37 projects are energy and chemical plants along the Gulf Coast or wind projects in West Texas. Read more.