{"id":419495,"date":"2026-08-28T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419495\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:02:09","slug":"qa-meet-the-candidates-running-for-texas-house-district-33-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419495\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Meet the candidates running for Texas House District 33 | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voters will choose between two candidates for the Texas House District 33 position this Nov. 3 election.<\/p>\n

What you need to know<\/p>\n

Republican incumbent Katrina Pierson is running against Democratic candidate Orlando Lopez. Texas House District 33\u2019s representative serves<\/a> residents in all of Rockwall, parts of Plano, Richardson, Murphy, Sachse, Wylie, Heath, Fate, McLendon-Chisholm, Rowlett and Dallas.<\/p>\n

Candidates were asked to keep responses within 50 words, answer teh questions provided and avoid attacking opponents. Answers may have been edited or cut to adhere to those guidelines, or for style and clarity. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order by last name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters will choose between two candidates for the Texas House District 33 position this Nov. 3 election. What…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[288,146116,160,162,161,146118,146119,146120,2332,146117,146121],"class_list":["post-419495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-elections","tag-hd-33","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-texas-house","tag-richardson-texas-house","tag-rockwall-texas-house","tag-texas-house","tag-who-is-my-representative-texas-house","tag-who-represents-rockwall-texas-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419495","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=419495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}