McClelland spent 12 years as an Army officer — Bronze Star, then a logistics officer in the White House — and now sits on the Dripping Springs school board, where he made news as the "whistleblower" in a Texas Public Policy Foundation attack on school-finance consultants.
TPPF is the Austin think tank behind school vouchers and the campaign against public-school funding. McClelland is director of business development for BPI Partners, an Austin firm that does drainage, erosion and stormwater work on construction sites in Hays County — the kind of work the Commissioners Court hands out contracts for. He also sits on the Texas School Safety Center board (an Abbott appointment) and is a deacon at his church. On growth, water and the county budget, his answers so far are "fiscal discipline" and "responsible development."
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McClelland’s take on Texas values
McClelland supports fiscal accountability in county government. [Campaign platform]