{"id":371965,"date":"2026-07-14T01:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371965\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T01:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:51:13","slug":"richardson-city-council-member-dan-barrios-announces-resignation-for-congress-bid-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371965\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson City Council member Dan Barrios announces resignation for Congress bid | Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richardson City Council member Dan Barrios announced his resignation from council on July 13 in order to devote his time to his campaign for U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n

Barrios said his resignation will become effective upon the appointment of his successor by council.<\/p>\n

The overview<\/p>\n

Barrios was first elected<\/a> to council in 2023.<\/p>\n

He announced<\/a> his candidacy in December for District 32 of the U.S. House, which includes Richardson and Plano. Barrios won<\/a> the Democratic primary in March and will face<\/a> Republican Jace Yarbrough in the November general election.<\/p>\n

Barrios said he structured his resignation to ensure continuity during the upcoming budget approval process and to provide sufficient time for a \u201cthoughtful appointment process that allows for public input.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cServing the people of Richardson as a member of the Richardson City Council has been one of the greatest honors of my life,\u201d Barrios said at the council meeting. \u201cAfter thoughtful consideration, I have decided to resign from the Richardson City Council so that I may devote my full time and attention to my campaign to the United States Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next<\/p>\n

In April, council approved<\/a> a 12-week process to fill a single vacancy on council. This will include an application process, interviews and deliberations during council meetings and a majority vote by the remaining members of council to fill the vacant seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richardson City Council member Dan Barrios announced his resignation from council on July 13 in order to devote…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4519,131731,409,160,162,161,4836,8788,41332,959,13910],"class_list":["post-371965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-city-council","tag-dan-barrios","tag-election","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-representative","tag-resignation","tag-resigns","tag-richardson","tag-u-s-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371965","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=371965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}