{"id":238006,"date":"2026-04-07T01:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238006\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:25:06","slug":"four-candidates-vying-for-lubbock-mayor-in-may-election-the-amarillo-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238006\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Candidates Vying for Lubbock Mayor in May Election \u2014 The Amarillo Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Incumbent Lubbock Mayor Mark McBrayer is facing three challengers in his bid for re-election this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">McBrayer, a Lubbock attorney and former city councilmember, has served as mayor since 2024, when he was elected to replace then-incumbent Tray Payne. This year, McBrayer is running for re-election and is facing three challengers. They are: Stephen Sanders, a veteran and activist who has sought the Lubbock mayoral office in several past elections; Peggy Bohmfalk, a content creator; and Todd Winans, a Lubbock business owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The last time McBrayer was on the ballot, he defeated Steve Massengale in the 2024 runoff for Lubbock mayor, with 72 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This election will be decided on May 2nd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incumbent Lubbock Mayor Mark McBrayer is facing three challengers in his bid for re-election this year. McBrayer, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-238006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238006","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=238006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}