{"id":371422,"date":"2026-07-13T18:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371422\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:46:33","slug":"michael-hinojosa-enters-dallas-mayors-race-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371422\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Hinojosa enters Dallas mayor\u2019s race \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former DISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa on Monday launched his campaign for Dallas mayor, becoming the first major candidate in the 2027 race.<\/p>\n<p>He has considered a mayoral bid for years, saying his role in helping turn around a once-troubled school district has prepared him to lead a city with mounting challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This community raised me. I just want to give back to it, if the voters want me,&#8221; he said in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>Hinojosa, 70, who has never run for public office, filed paperwork making official his candidacy and has a news conference scheduled Tuesday at City Hall. The race to replace term-limited Mayor Eric Johnson is expected to draw a wide field of candidates from across Dallas&#8217; civic and political landscape over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/former-disd-leader-jumps-dallas-mayor-s-race-22340329.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here to read more on this report from our partners at The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former DISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa on Monday launched his campaign for Dallas mayor, becoming the first major candidate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[102,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-371422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-dallas","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371422","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=371422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}