{"id":177251,"date":"2026-02-24T01:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177251\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:08:12","slug":"chris-bell-enters-texas-governors-race-citing-education-as-key-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177251\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Bell enters Texas governor\u2019s race, citing education as key issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Chris Bell is one of nine Democrats running for the chance to challenge Gov. Greg Abbott in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bell first ran for governor more than 20 years ago. He said his background as a lawyer and journalist makes him ready to serve on day one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bell said many of the issues he fought for during his first campaign remain unresolved in Texas, including public education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s not just about throwing more money&#8230;for public school education as long as I\u2019ve been alive,\u201d Bell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Chris Bell is one of nine Democrats running for the chance to challenge Gov. Greg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30625,71375,406,71378,27,71376,44242,29,28,71377],"class_list":["post-177251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chris-bell","tag-chris-bell-texas-governor","tag-government","tag-polotics","tag-texas","tag-texas-democratic-primary-2026","tag-texas-governors-race","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-public-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}