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Kelly Hancock: “There are 150,000 veteran businesses in the state of Texas.”

Featuring: Kelly Hancock, Republican | State Senator, Texas, District 9

Texas Governor Greg Abbott holds a campaign in El Paso

Published February 27, 2026 | Video Starts at 04:00

We're showing them how to be involved in the procurement, and we're helping grow, especially our disabled veterans businesses in the great state of Texas, which, by the way, There are 150,000 veteran businesses in the state of Texas. We want to make sure they don't have to do business in the state of Texas. Well, the other thing that we did, I served on our local school board for 13 years. (04:00–04:05)

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Asserts that there are 150,000 veteran-owned businesses in Texas.

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