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Just who is Kandy Kaye Horn? When the East Texas outsider launched a bid for governor in 2022, this was the question everyone asked when they drove by one of her billboards, which had cost an estimated $1.4 million to plant across the state. Clad in a dress emblazoned with dollar bills, her face framed by flame-red bangs, Horn beamed a practiced society-page smile beneath slogans that proclaimed her a “SUCCESSFUL CHRISTIAN BUSINESSWOMAN” and a “DIFFERENT KIND OF REPUBLICAN” who wanted to decriminalize marijuana. Horn made an instant impression, although it proved to be a fleeting one: after she garnered a minuscule one-percent return in the primaries, her political life was over before it had barely begun. Whoever Kandy Kaye Horn was, it seemed, most…

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