{"id":339580,"date":"2026-06-17T07:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339580\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:59:13","slug":"decision-2026-interview-with-former-city-councilman-gary-boren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339580\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision 2026: Interview with former city councilman Gary Boren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; In our continuing coverage of the Lubbock City Council special election, we\u2019re hearing from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/03\/16\/former-councilman-gary-boren-announces-bid-district-4-seat\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/03\/16\/former-councilman-gary-boren-announces-bid-district-4-seat\/\">candidate Gary Boren<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Boren says he is running on experience. He served on the Lubbock City Council in the early 2000s. He also served on the Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees and now on the Brazos River Authority. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When Boren last served on the Lubbock City Council, he abruptly resigned in March of 2007. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/04\/24\/seventh-court-rules-favor-boren\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/04\/24\/seventh-court-rules-favor-boren\/\">Boren won a court decision over the City of Lubbock to be on this ballot<\/a>. The city did not think he\u2019d lived in District 4 long enough. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Early voting for this special election runs through Tuesday, June 23. Election day is June 27. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other candidates include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/06\/15\/decision-2026-interview-with-city-council-district-4-candidate-bill-curnow\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/06\/15\/decision-2026-interview-with-city-council-district-4-candidate-bill-curnow\/\">Bill Curnow<\/a> Stephanie FerranTim GreenBoyd Goodloe<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; In our continuing coverage of the Lubbock City Council special election, we\u2019re hearing from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[81285,319,251,168,22683,98693,170,169,287,7838],"class_list":["post-339580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-gary-boren","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-city-council","tag-lubbock-city-council-district-4","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-politics","tag-special-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339580","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=339580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}