ROCKPORT, TX \u2014 The City of Rockport has announced a special election to be held this November after Ward 1 city council member Stephanie Rangel resigned.<\/p>\n
As of right now, it is unknown why Rangel resigned from the position.<\/p>\n
In a statement Rockport Mayor Tim Jayroe said “Stephanie has been a dedicated advocate for Ward 1 and the city of Rockport. She approached every decision with a genuine desire to serve her neighbors and improve our community.”<\/p>\n
The special election to fill her seat will be held on Tuesday, November 3. <\/p>\n
Rangel’s term was not set to end until May of 2029, meaning whoever wins the seat will serve until that point.<\/p>\n
The candidate application process to appear on the ballot for the Ward 1 seat will open August 12. It will remain open until 6 PM August 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCKPORT, TX \u2014 The City of Rockport has announced a special election to be held this November after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4519,155,157,156,409,8788,33442],"class_list":["post-400778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-city-council","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-election","tag-resignation","tag-rockport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400778","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=400778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}