{"id":243119,"date":"2026-04-10T05:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243119\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:02:07","slug":"corpus-christi-city-councilmember-everett-roy-will-not-seek-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243119\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi City Councilmember Everett Roy will not seek reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi City Council member Everett Roy has announced he will not run in this year\u2019s election after several years serving on council.<\/p>\n<p>Roy told 3NEWS he plans to step away from politics to focus on his family and business ventures, saying the decision comes after missing important family moments\u2014not from any single issue.<\/p>\n<p>Roy currently represents District 1 on the council, a seat he has held since taking office in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He is not the only council member leaving. Councilmembers Gil Hernandez and Roland Barrera are both term-limited and will also not appear on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/corpus-christi-city-council-member-everett-roy-not-seek-reelection\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi City Council member Everett Roy has announced he will not run in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-243119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243119","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=243119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}