{"id":217225,"date":"2026-03-23T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217225\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:00:34","slug":"lubbock-voters-can-meet-mayoral-city-council-candidates-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217225\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock voters can meet mayoral, city council candidates Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; While voters are still more than a month away from the next municipal election, they have the opportunity to meet the candidates hoping to represent them for the next several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The League of Women Voters and other organizations are hosting a speed meet and greet to give voters one-on-one time with the four mayoral candidates, including incumbent Mayor Mark McBrayer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City council candidates running to represent districts 1, 3 and 5 will also attend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event is Thursday evening at the YWCA near 62nd St. and University Ave. from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Early voting for this election begins April 30. Election day for municipal and school elections is May 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; While voters are still more than a month away from the next municipal election,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[40190,4519,409,319,69855,66,168,170,169,84747,9808,223,8350],"class_list":["post-217225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-candidates","tag-city-council","tag-election","tag-kcbd","tag-league-of-women-voters","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-voters","tag-meet-and-greet","tag-news","tag-ywca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217225","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=217225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}