State of Texas
State Representative, District 5
Cole Hefner
Republican Incumbent- On ballot as
- Cole Hefner
- Current role
- State Representative, Texas House District 5 (since 2017)
- Background
- Small-business owner, insurance industry
- Owned a construction business for 16 years
- Later took over his family's commercial construction company
- Born and raised in East Texas; lives in Mount Pleasant
- Experience
- Chair, House Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Committee
- Member, Transportation and Redistricting committees
- Former Upshur County Commissioner
- Top priorities
- "Cut red tape, lower property taxes, lower those barriers to business to where people can thrive" (KLTV, September 2026)
- On groundwater: "If we don’t have some kind of protections, then we’re vulnerable from our water being overused and over-pumped" (KLTV, September 2026)
- Campaign site: "We must secure our freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms"
- Campaign site: "We must end the brutal murders of the unborn"
- Tidbits
- Abortion: Campaign site: "We must end the brutal murders of the unborn."
- Border and immigration: In a 2024 Ballotpedia survey, his key campaign messages were "Secure the Border. Lower Taxes. Protect Texas Families."
- Guns: Campaign site: "We must secure our freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms."
- Public schools and vouchers: No public statement found
- Property taxes: To KLTV in September 2026: "Cut red tape, lower property taxes, lower those barriers to business to where people can thrive"
- Endorsements
- Texas Values Action
- Texas Home School Coalition
- Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT) PAC
- TEXPAC (Texas Medical Association Political Action Committee)
- Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC
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- Texas Alliance for Life (primary)
- Young Conservatives of Texas (primary)
- NFIB Texas PAC (primary)
- TruckPAC (Texas Trucking Association) (primary)
- Former Governor Rick Perry (listed by campaign)
- Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith (listed by campaign)
- Titus County Sheriff Tim Ingram (listed by campaign)
- Camp County Sheriff John Cortelyou (listed by campaign)
- Wood County Sheriff Kelly Cole (listed by campaign)
- Upshur County Sheriff Larry Webb (listed by campaign)
- Rains County Sheriff Michael Hopkins (listed by campaign)
- Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putman (listed by campaign)
- Wood County District Attorney Angela Albers (listed by campaign)
- Upshur County District Attorney Billy Byrd (listed by campaign)
- Titus County District Attorney David Colley (listed by campaign)
- Titus County Attorney John Mark Cobern (listed by campaign)
- Mayor of Hideaway Chet Thomas (listed by campaign)
- Mayor of Winnsboro Randy Parrish (listed by campaign)
- Campaign website
- colehefner.com
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