
Mark V. Goloby
Republican | Texas
Candidate Profile
Leans Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Mark V. Goloby
Party
Republican
Election Year
2026
Election
Republican Primary
Race
Governor
Incumbent
No
EDUCATION
Texas A&M, College Station, BBA Accounting, 1981
WORK & MILITARY
Dresser Industries, Internal Audit, 1981-1985
GTE Mobilnet Now Verizon, Texas Area Controller, 1985-1991
Richmond Cellular, Controller, 1991-1993
TC Technologies, Founder, 1993-2026
AFFILIATIONS
East Texas Energy Symposium, Founder, 2011-2021
BIZPAC, Treasurer, 2023-
Act in Action, Organizer, 2020-2024
The Houston Producer's Forum, Member, 1999-
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Harris County Precinct Chair, 2018-2023
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
Governor
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (25)
Jon Bouche (2025)
Local, County, and District Republican Organizations (2025)
Republican Womens Organizations (2025)
State Republican Party Organizations (2024)
CyFair 4 Liberty (2023)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (2)
Local, County, and District Republican Organizations (2022)
Kenneth Sheets (2012)
OTHER INFORMATION
Candidate Q&A. Community Impact. 23 Jan 2026.
Candidate interivew. True Texas Project YouTube. 5 Sept 2025. 19 min.
Candidate interview. Radio Dabang YouTube. 9 Aug 2025. 1:11:16 minutes.
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).
Strongly Agree
We have made great strides in reducing surgical abortions. It is time to focus on children now born into dire circumstances. Foster and adoption issues must be addressed https://markgolobyfortexas.com/adoption%2Ffoster-care
Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?
None come to mind. While there is an issue of rape and incest. But that might be more of society not enforcing strong enough justice to rapists regardless of incest. There is still the overriding of the human life even if conceived in a violent assault.
Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.
Agree
While Strongly Agree. I am not opposed to the death penalty being invoked. We cannot ignore that certain behavior, acts and deeds in a just society require the most extreme penalty of the perpetrators' life
The lives of human embryos created through artificial methods ought to be protected from purposeful destruction.
Neutral
This requires a lot of analysis. While these embryos are in this suspended state, unless there are volunteers to accept them to take to term, do we just leave these souls in limbo? While purposeful destruction is abhorrent what solution is there? This is another issue of the science getting ahead of the ethics to deal with the results. It might be an indication of whether the practice is blessed as God intended that "man and woman to become one".
The Comstock Act, which bans interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs, should be enforced.
Agree
In an age when District Attorneys are not even enforcing murder, how do they get prosecuted. Will searches of mail be required to insure someone is not mailing in another envelope? Without the ability or willingness to enforce a law it is almost worse than no law.
ECONOMY
What is your position on the minimum wage?
This is government overreach. But then the practices of some in business to not provide an appropriate wage must also be considered. Is that not why so many businesses want illegal immigration? These absurd minimum wages serve no one's interests.
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
Private property is fundamental to a free and prosperous economy
List your top 3-5 priorities to eliminate government waste.
Eliminate Corporate Welfare like Hollywood subsidies. Like many corporations have done, invoke a 10% reduction in agency spending. This takes an efficiency minded Governor who respects the hard earned tax dollars people pay. This should emanate from the Governor on down to all levels of the legislature. Eliminating programs requires the ability to stand to the abuse from those who benefit from them. Which is more than any of us want to admit
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?
It means there are no state sponsored or founded religions. No theocracies including a theocracy like Radical Muslims trying to supplant our justice system with Sharia Law. There are no laws forcing people to convert to a religion or even practice a religion. There are no special taxes collected for practicing a particular religion as is done under Sharia Law. The government cannot allow a few to use the legal system to stifle others from observing their religions publicly.
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Strongly Disagree
A free society allows people to choose with whom they will conduct business or not conduct business.
HEALTHCARE
What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D) Taxpayer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be defunded.
C overall. Medicare is an earned service from contributions made over the years. Medicaid is a welfare program that needs to be turned over to private and faith based institutions to deliver. The elevation of medical care into a supposed right has only diminished all levels of care for everyone.
The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.
Disagree
This seems incredibly invasive. Again the elevation of medical care into a supposed right has only diminished all levels of care for everyone.
NATIONAL SECURITY
The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.
Strongly Agree
Unfortunately the rise of this threat is induced by those of New World Order and World Economic Forum. Now they have an out of control communist regime with world domination as its goal.
Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?
It is an important relationship. But the relationship may have become less to the favor of the United States. It must be a fair and equitable to both sides and it is fair to assess is that still true today?
IMMIGRATION
I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons.
Strongly Disagree
Absolutely not. These governmental groups cities and states undermine the rule of law everywhere. A nation without borders is no nation. Those that abet violators of a nation's borders, directly contribute to the demise of that nation.
EDUCATION
I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.
Strongly Agree
The sooner the better
Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.
Neutral
It all depends on the strings and provisions that might be attached to the funding. There are plenty of domestic sources of research funding that is to develop and substantiate results not discover them. The whole climate scam is witness to this and now Bill Gates admits it is all bunk. How much did he fund of what he now declares is not really important.
VALUES
Government should recognize and support the fundamental right and essential duty of parents to direct their child's health and educational well-being.
Strongly Agree
Attempts to physically or socially transition a child to the opposite sex constitute child abuse.
Strongly Agree
The whole sexual transition needs a societal scrutiny. This is only transmorphic plastic surgery when real evaluation and psychological counseling should be the prescription. Not permanent procedures that inhibit the person from many normal biological functions for the rest of their life.
Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Strongly Agree
Yet the United State Supreme Court did just that. This is precept going back 5,000 years of human history.
I support the expansion of gambling in my state.
Strongly Disagree
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I believe the Christian relationship with God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit to be the most complete way to relate to our Creator. This is not disparagement of other religions only an observation of the fullness of the Judeo-Christian foundation of our Constitution and our country.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
EQUALITY
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
Strongly Disagree
The discussion of slavery in regards to America is warped from the facts. The Constitution defined the outlaw of slavery in 20 years. This was long before England outlawed it. America did not quite meet that, but in 1808 outlawed the importation of slaves. A discussion of slavery, ignoring the role of Spain and Portugal bringing the most slaves from Africa to the Western Hemisphere is a biased discussion. No discussion is complete, without including that Africans brought them to the shore.
Biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's sports or occupy biological women's spaces whether it be bathrooms, locker rooms, sorority houses, women's shelters, or prison.
Strongly Agree
Should not even be a talking point.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Man-made climate change is a global threat and requires urgent political action.
Strongly Disagree
Bill Gates has already debunked this whole scam. Anyone who is repeating this ignores these statements of one of its stalwart proponents.
What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?
Nuclear energy will be the main electrical generating platform. Oil and Natural Gas are the best heat and transportation fuels. There are nuclear reactors all over the world on top of the sea and under the sea in aircraft carriers and submarines
ABOUT YOU
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Very Conservative
TO be right in the middle of this intense focus on the abuse of Texas Taxpayer being overtaxed then insulted with corporate welfare schemes like Hollywood subsidies. It has been a while since I have felt so much in the right place, at the right time, in the right fight. My passion is all Texans pay less taxes, not pay them differently. The TEA Commissioner be elected and accountable to the parents and taxpayers not me the governor. Eliminate Corporate Welfare schemes.
Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.
NO!
Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.
NO!
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
What should be the goal of the criminal justice system?
To enforce the laws as they are written. To insure that the rights of the victim are regarded. The Constitution grants the right to a speedy trial. This is not just meant for the criminal. The victim too has a right to a speedy trial to see justice administered for their grievances. Justice delayed is truly justice denied. To drag out a case, to make someone have to retell what could be an horrific ordeal for the loved one, over and over is truly an injustice.
Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.
Neutral
Really this is the parent's duty. Yes the government might have tools and certain restrictions in place. Minors can not legally buy alcohol. But a parent may well allow their child to have it in the home. Was this not a question earlier "Government should recognize and support the fundamental right and essential duty of parents to direct their child's health and educational well-being." Fundamental rights have fundamental responsibilities.
Sharia law should not be accepted or incorporated in any form within the legal framework of the United States.
Strongly Agree
I address this whole issue here https://markgolobyfortexas.com/no-subculture
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
The right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Over and over with or without guns the ability for evil people to inflict harm on others seems limitless.
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