{"id":251687,"date":"2026-04-15T23:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:37:12","slug":"interview-with-district-1-lubbock-city-council-candidate-christy-martinez-garcia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251687\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with District 1 Lubbock City Council Candidate Christy Martinez-Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) -Cities and schools around the South Plains will have elections Saturday, May 2. Early voting runs April 20 through 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Today, James Eppler spoke with the incumbent Christy Martinez-Garcia, who is on the ballot and is seeking re-election for Lubbock City Council, District 1. <\/p>\n<p>Other candidates KCBD will be interviewing this week<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thursday:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Adam Hernandez (District 3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Friday:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gil Caley (District 3)<\/p>\n<p>Previous Interviews:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/04\/13\/decision-2026-interview-with-district-3-lubbock-city-council-candidate-david-bruegel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/04\/13\/decision-2026-interview-with-district-3-lubbock-city-council-candidate-david-bruegel\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Bruegel<\/a> (District 3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/04\/14\/decision-2026-interview-with-district-1-lubbock-city-council-candidate-pat-kelly\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/04\/14\/decision-2026-interview-with-district-1-lubbock-city-council-candidate-pat-kelly\/\">Pat Kelly <\/a>(District 1)<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) -Cities and schools around the South Plains will have elections Saturday, May 2. Early voting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13723,18010,4519,5599,14573,319,168,170,169,287],"class_list":["post-251687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-13723","tag-christy-martinez-garcia","tag-city-council","tag-decision","tag-district","tag-kcbd","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251687","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=251687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}