What is the Land Commissioner and what do they do?
The Land Commissioner oversees the state’s General Land Office which is constitutionally responsible for generating revenue for the Permanent School Fund and the Veterans Land Board.
1n 1836 the Republic of Texas Congress create the General Land Office to keep land records and manage the how state lands were settled. Then in 1876 it set aside state land to establish and find the Pernament School Fund., which it continues to fund by leasing the state land and mineral rights chiefly to the oil and gas and industry and land developers..
In 1946 GLO created the Texas Veterans Land Board to provide funding and services to Texas veterans, men and women serving in the military, and their families
Benjamin Flores wants to make helping our schools and our veterans the GLO’s Job #1 again.
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The current Land Commissioner has used GLO resources to obtain and transfer land to support border protection. She now has it searching for tunnels that can be used to smuggle pople under the border.
(https://ijr.com/commissioner-dawn-buckingham-texas-leads-charge-against-cartel-tunnel-threats/)
Benjamin Flores believes the law enforcement authorities operating in Texas are more than capable of securing the border, making this is an unnecessary expense and distraction that takes away from GLO’s core mission, which is to help our schools and our veterans.
Benjamin Flores will refocus General Land Office on it’s core mission.