Mark Goloby

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Mark Goloby

Independent

Elections and appointments

Last election

May 4, 2024

Education

High school

Bellaire High School

Bachelor's

Texas A&M University, 1981

Personal

Birthplace

Gallatin, Tenn.

Religion

Catholic

Profession

Business owner

Contact

Personal website

Personal LinkedIn

Mark Goloby ran for election to the Harris Central Appraisal District to represent Place 3 in Texas. He lost in the general election on May 4, 2024.

Biography

Mark Goloby was born in Gallatin, Tennessee. He earned a high school diploma from Bellaire High School and a bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University in 1981. His career experience includes working as a business owner and president. Goloby has been affiliated with TIPRO, ASGMT, Houston Producers Forum, and the East Texas Energy Symposium.

Elections

2024

See also: Municipal elections in Harris County, Texas (2024)

General runoff election

General runoff election for Harris Central Appraisal District, Place 3

Ericka McCrutcheon defeated Pelumi Adeleke in the general runoff election for Harris Central Appraisal District, Place 3 on June 15, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ericka McCrutcheon (Nonpartisan)	61.5	29,101
	Submit photo	Pelumi Adeleke (Nonpartisan)	38.5	18,192

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 47,293
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General election

General election for Harris Central Appraisal District, Place 3

Ericka McCrutcheon and Pelumi Adeleke advanced to a runoff. They defeated Amy Lacy, Mark Goloby, and J. Bill in the general election for Harris Central Appraisal District, Place 3 on May 4, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ericka McCrutcheon (Nonpartisan)	41.2	22,365
✔	Submit photo	Pelumi Adeleke (Nonpartisan)	21.3	11,553
	Submit photo	Amy Lacy (Nonpartisan)	20.7	11,223
		Mark Goloby (Nonpartisan)	11.5	6,215
	Submit photo	J. Bill (Nonpartisan)	5.3	2,874

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 54,230
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Endorsements

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2022

Governor

See also: Texas gubernatorial election, 2022

General election

General election for Governor of Texas

The following candidates ran in the general election for Governor of Texas on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Greg Abbott (R)	54.8	4,437,099
		Beto O'Rourke (D)	43.9	3,553,656
		Mark Tippetts (L)	1.0	81,932
		Delilah Barrios (G)	0.4	28,584
		Jacqueline Abernathy (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	1,243
		Mark Goloby (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	394

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 8,102,908
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Reginald Jennings II (Independent)
• Jorge Franco (Independent)
• Jeremy Rios (Independent)
• Ricardo Turullols-Bonilla (Independent)
• Justin Cunneen (Independent)
• Sean Sharp (Independent)
• Demetra Wysinger (Independent)
• Chioma Okoro (Independent)
• Star Locke (Independent)
• Raul Cortina (Independent)
• Patrick Wynne (Reform Party)
• Jal Dennis (Independent)
• Deirdre Dickson-Gilbert (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Governor of Texas

Beto O'Rourke defeated Joy Diaz, Michael Cooper, Rich Wakeland, and Inocencio Barrientez in the Democratic primary for Governor of Texas on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Beto O'Rourke	91.4	983,182
		Joy Diaz	3.1	33,622
		Michael Cooper	3.0	32,673
		Rich Wakeland	1.2	13,237
	Submit photo	Inocencio Barrientez	1.2	12,887

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,075,601
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Deirdre Dickson-Gilbert (D)
• Star Locke (D)
• Jack Daniel Foster Jr. (D)
• Larry Baggett (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Governor of Texas

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Texas on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Greg Abbott	66.5	1,299,059
		Allen B. West	12.3	239,557
		Donald Huffines	12.0	234,138
		Chad Prather	3.8	74,173
	Submit photo	Rick Perry	3.1	61,424
		Kandy Kaye Horn	1.2	23,605
	Submit photo	Paul Belew	0.6	11,387
		Daniel Harrison	0.6	10,829

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,954,172
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Green convention

Green convention for Governor of Texas

Delilah Barrios advanced from the Green convention for Governor of Texas on April 9, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Delilah Barrios (G)

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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for Governor of Texas

Mark Tippetts defeated Fidel Castillo in the Libertarian convention for Governor of Texas on April 10, 2022.

		Candidate
	Submit photo	Fidel Castillo (L)
✔		Mark Tippetts (L)

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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Andrew Jewell (L)
• Daniel Behrman (L)

Comptroller of Public Accounts

See also: Texas Comptroller election, 2022

General election

General election for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Incumbent Glenn Hegar defeated Janet Dudding and V. Alonzo Echevarria-Garza in the general election for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Glenn Hegar (R)	56.4	4,496,319
		Janet Dudding (D)	40.9	3,265,069
	Submit photo	V. Alonzo Echevarria-Garza (L)	2.7	212,205

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 7,973,593
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Michael Berlanga (Independent)

Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Janet Dudding defeated Angel Vega in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on May 24, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Janet Dudding	61.4	292,069
		Angel Vega	38.6	183,533

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 475,602
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Janet Dudding and Angel Vega advanced to a runoff. They defeated Tim Mahoney in the Democratic primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Janet Dudding	46.3	454,338
✔		Angel Vega	34.5	338,877
		Tim Mahoney	19.2	188,250

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 981,465
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Incumbent Glenn Hegar defeated Mark Goloby in the Republican primary for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Glenn Hegar	81.7	1,386,782
		Mark Goloby	18.3	310,829

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,697,611
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

V. Alonzo Echevarria-Garza advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on April 10, 2022.

		Candidate
✔	Submit photo	V. Alonzo Echevarria-Garza (L)

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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2022

Mark Goloby completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Goloby's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Keeping my company going and delivering solutions that benefit my customer.

A governor is the top executive authority in his or her state. What does that mean do you?

That means the sovereignty of the state is critical and the first and foremost important aspect is to the citizens and their financial well being to pursue happiness and their private property rights.

Governors have many responsibilities, which vary from state to state. Which of those do you personally consider the most important in your state?

In Texas at this time is the protection of the Texas borders.

Different states require governors to have different degrees of responsibility for the state budgeting process. If it were your choice, what do you believe is the appropriate degree of gubernatorial involvement with this process in your state?

Insuring that spending by government is not bloated. Starting with the governors office. The best way is to limit the revenue to the treasury. Texas taxpayers have earned tax relief and insuring they are not overburdened with taxes is the most critical role of for a governor

In most states, governors have the power to make line-item vetoes. If that is true in your state, what would be your philosophy for how and when to use this power?

Texas governors do have line-item veto, hopefully in working with the legislature on the budget, it would not be too necessary. As the legislature should be reflecting the priorities of the voters. While the authority is there, like all such aspects exercising that authority should be done judiciously.

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and state legislature?

Depending on the structure and who the speaker and Lt Governor is drives how that relationship can work. It cannot be adversarial, but it must be arms length and insure that legislators do not craft programs like Chapter 313 of the Texas Tax Code that are so disdainful to the Texas Taxpayers.

What do you love most about your state?

Texas is the most robust state in the nation. Blessed with natural resources, agriculture, shipping it is no wonder it is the 9th economy in the world. But it cannot trample the individual with a reckless rush for growth at any cost.

What do you perceive to be your state's greatest challenges over the next decade?

The Texas Border

Election Integrity
Education of the children
Being transparent with the voters.

Managing growth so that arable land is destroyed from agriculture

Under what circumstances should the governor of your state be able to use emergency powers?

Under limited applications of dire circumstances very briefly then call in the legislature to deal with long term consequences if there are long-term consequences

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Campaign website

Goloby's campaign website stated the following:

“	Texas first, Texans first ACCOUNTABLE TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT I can not let another day go by where Texan's hard earned money is pilfered and wasted then the records hidden from the public. I am furious about the waste and the hiding of the truth for the public to decide about their elected officials and state commissions. AUTOMATIC FORENSIC AUDIT When you run a tight ship, transparency is easy. When they cover up for things you and I don't like, they try to hide their misdeeds. I don't like that. I won't do that. I am accountable to the people, to Texas and to Texans. Texans deserve good governance!	”
—Mark Goloby's campaign website (2022)

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