{"id":48638,"date":"2025-11-13T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48638\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:56:06","slug":"tom-sell-announces-candidacy-for-district-19-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48638\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Sell announces candidacy for District 19 representative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock businessman and conservative Tom Sell has announced his candidacy to serve West Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives for District 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sell\u2019s announcement comes after current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/11\/11\/lubbock-congressman-jodey-arrington-not-seeking-re-election-2026\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/11\/11\/lubbock-congressman-jodey-arrington-not-seeking-re-election-2026\/\">Congressman Jodey Arrington said he will not seek re-election in 2026<\/a>. Arrington was elected to congress in 2016 and has served for nearly a decade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sell is a fifth-generation West Texan committed to serving farm and ranch families, cities and rural communities throughout the southern High Plains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sell graduated from Texas Tech to then serve former Representative Larry Combest when he chaired the House Agriculture Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tom and his wife Kyla both live and work in Lubbock and have four children together. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe love our country and West Texas, and we want to repay all the great people of West Texas for the blessings they have given us and our family over our lifetime by standing by and defending them \u2014 and our country and everything they stand for,\u201d Tom and Kyla said. \u201cWe are motivated by a strong sense of urgency and deep gratitude that we both feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selltexastrue.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.selltexastrue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.selltexastrue.com\/<\/a> for more information about Sell\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock businessman and conservative Tom Sell has announced his candidacy to serve West Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2671,4825,319,251,1063,168,170,169,27902,27901,375],"class_list":["post-48638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-congress","tag-jodey-arrington","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-local-politics","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-tom-sell","tag-us-house","tag-west-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48638","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=48638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}