Leaders in Corpus Christi, Texas, are weighing the removal of the city\u2019s mayor as they reckon with a water crisis that could disrupt life in one of the nation\u2019s largest petrochemical and refining hubs.<\/p>\n
The City Council voted 5-2 this week to set a May 19 removal hearing date for Mayor Paulette Guajardo after the council received an impeachment petition signed by seven people.<\/p>\n
The petition is not based on Guajardo\u2019s handling of the city\u2019s worsening water outlook, but rather a hotel tax incentive vote that critics and some council members say may have violated ethics standards.<\/p>\n
The battle over whether to remove Guajardo is the latest chapter in a political drama that has come to define Corpus Christi\u2019s City Council meetings \u2014 drama that has been shaped and amplified by the worsening water crisis in the Southeast Texas city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders in Corpus Christi, Texas, are weighing the removal of the city\u2019s mayor as they reckon with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-252388","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\/252388","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=252388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}