{"id":190766,"date":"2026-03-04T22:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/190766\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:22:07","slug":"mayor-mark-mcbrayer-announces-reelection-campaign-after-state-of-city-address-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/190766\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mark McBrayer announces reelection campaign after State of City address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock Mayor Mark McBrayer announced Wednesday he is seeking another term in office, making the announcement after delivering his State of the City address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McBrayer, who took office in 2024, said he wants a second term to focus on developing Downtown Lubbock. He listed safety, affordability, and energy as his key priorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen people start looking around Texas and other places, they\u2019re looking at Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin, they\u2019re going to start paying attention to Lubbock,\u201d McBrayer said. \u201cWhen they do, I want to be prepared for that growth, and do what we need to do as a city to be a welcoming place for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McBrayer faces three challengers in the race: Peggy Bohmfalk, Stephen Sanders, and G. Todd Winans. The mayoral race will appear on municipal and school board ballots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock Mayor Mark McBrayer announced Wednesday he is seeking another term in office, making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[75349,66,168,170,59318,169,75707,223,287,375],"class_list":["post-190766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-downtown-lubbock","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-mayor","tag-lubbock-news","tag-mark-mcrbrayer","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-west-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190766","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=190766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}