{"id":371795,"date":"2026-07-13T23:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371795\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:29:30","slug":"candidate-filing-begins-soon-for-corpus-christi-mayoral-and-council-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371795\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate filing begins soon for Corpus Christi mayoral and council elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi&#8217;s political season is about to heat up.<\/p>\n<p>Filing opens Monday, July 20, for anyone who wants to run for city office. The mayor&#8217;s seat and seats for all 8 City Council members will be on the November general election ballot.<\/p>\n<p>People interested in running for any of those seats can pick up candidate packets at the City Secretary&#8217;s Office. There is a $100 filing fee.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates will have from Monday, July 20, to Monday, Aug. 17, to pay that fee and complete the filing process.<\/p>\n<p>A bond proposal will also be on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Residents who are not registered to vote must do so by Monday, Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi&#8217;s political season is about to heat up. Filing opens Monday, July 20,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-371795","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\/371795","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=371795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}