{"id":218832,"date":"2026-03-24T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218832\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:31:10","slug":"city-council-votes-5-3-to-advance-removal-process-for-mayor-guajardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218832\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council votes 5-3 to advance removal process for Mayor Guajardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corpus Christi City Council voted 5-3 on Tuesday to move forward with procedural steps in a potential removal process for Mayor Paulette Guajardo.<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with the procedural steps required to begin the potential removal of Mayor Paulette Guajardo.<\/p>\n<p>The motion passed in a 5-3 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Council members Carolyn Vaughn, Eric Cantu, Gil Hernandez, Kaylynn Paxson and Sylvia Campos voted in favor of setting an agenda item and date for preliminary and procedural matters tied to a removal hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Council members Roland Barrera, Everett Roy and Mark Scott voted against the motion.<\/p>\n<p>The vote does not remove the mayor, but instead advances the process by scheduling the next steps required under city procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is expected to take place April 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e46af692-7218-4e3c-942a-dab9542d9909_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back later for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi City Council voted 5-3 on Tuesday to move forward with procedural steps in a potential removal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-218832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218832","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=218832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}