{"id":387451,"date":"2026-07-27T05:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387451\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T05:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:54:30","slug":"day-2-corpus-christi-mayor-removal-hearing-scheduled-to-resume-aug-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387451\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2: Corpus Christi mayor removal hearing scheduled to resume Aug. 6."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi\u00a0City Council spent\u00a0a second day\u00a0hearing testimony as\u00a0it considers whether\u00a0to remove Mayor\u00a0Paulette Guajardo from\u00a0office.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing stems\u00a0from a petition\u00a0tied to\u00a0the city&#8217;s investment\u00a0in the downtown\u00a0Homewood Suites project. Petitioners allege Guajardo\u00a0violated the City\u00a0Charter during the\u00a0approval process.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Guajardo spent more\u00a0than\u00a0four hours on\u00a0the witness stand\u00a0answering questions from\u00a0the attorney representing\u00a0the petitioners.<\/p>\n<p>Petitioners also argue\u00a0that key documents\u00a0were altered before\u00a0they reached the\u00a0City Council. Guajardo\u00a0continues to deny\u00a0any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Before testimony resumed, members of the\u00a0public were given\u00a0an opportunity to\u00a0address the council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not\u00a0being handled properly\u00a0in my opinion, and I would\u00a0please request that\u00a0y&#8217;all, you know, this isn&#8217;t, this\u00a0is bad for\u00a0Corpus Christi. It&#8217;s\u00a0been bad for\u00a0Corpus Christi,&#8221; Port\u00a0Aransas resident Cathy\u00a0Fulton said.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is\u00a0scheduled to resume\u00a0Aug. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in watching the first two days of the hearing can do so at the links below:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/day-2-corpus-christi-mayor-removal-hearing-scheduled-to-resume-aug-6\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi\u00a0City Council spent\u00a0a second day\u00a0hearing testimony as\u00a0it considers whether\u00a0to remove Mayor\u00a0Paulette Guajardo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-387451","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\/387451","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=387451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}