{"id":477224,"date":"2026-10-26T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477224\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:44:08","slug":"community-conversations-minerva-torres-shelton-challenges-incumbent-for-county-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477224\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Conversations: Minerva Torres Shelton challenges incumbent for county judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Voters in El Paso County will decide who will serve as the county\u2019s next judge, with Minerva Torres Shelton challenging incumbent El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego.<\/p>\n<p>Torres Shelton appeared for a KFOX14 Community Conversations interview to discuss her campaign and why she is running for the office. <\/p>\n<p>During the interview, she was asked what made her decide to run as El Paso County judge, what sets her apart from Samaniego, and what her priorities would be if she wins on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation also focused on what Torres Shelton sees as the main issues in the county that need change or action, and she was given a chance to add anything else she wanted voters to know.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview:<\/p>\n<p><p>Community Conversations: Minerva Torres Shelton challenges incumbent for county judge<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED:<a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/community\/community-conversations\/community-conversations-el-paso-county-judge-ricardo-samaniego-seeks-re-election?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/community\/community-conversations\/community-conversations-el-paso-county-judge-ricardo-samaniego-seeks-re-election?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Community Conversations: El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego seeks re-election<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Voters in El Paso County will decide who will serve as the county\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-477224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477224","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=477224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}