{"id":436717,"date":"2026-09-15T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436717\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:42:15","slug":"meet-the-candidates-running-for-austin-city-council-district-1-east-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436717\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates running for Austin City Council District 1 | East Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin&#8217;s City Council District 1 voters will elect a new representative at City Hall in November. Residents can <a href=\"https:\/\/geohub.austintexas.gov\/pages\/council-districts-and-jurisdictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">check their council district online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two-term District 1 council member Natasha Harper-Madison is set to leave office in January, and six candidates\u2014Steven Brown, Alexandria Anderson, Amber K. Goodwin, Michael Nahas, Portia Riggins and Misael Ramos\u2014are running to succeed her and represent portions of East and Central Austin.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Candidates were asked to keep Q&amp;A responses within 50 words, answer the questions provided and avoid attacking opponents. Answers may have been edited or cut to adhere to those guidelines or for style and clarity.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting runs from Oct. 19 to Oct. 30, and Election Day is Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin&#8217;s City Council District 1 voters will elect a new representative at City Hall in November. Residents can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,1501,134,133,40190,3893,8694,2924,409,2279],"class_list":["post-436717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-city-council","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-candidates","tag-central-austin","tag-district-1","tag-east-austin","tag-election","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436717","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=436717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}