{"id":59811,"date":"2025-11-21T21:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59811\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:14:06","slug":"rebeca-gonzales-announces-candidacy-for-lubbock-county-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59811\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebeca Gonzales announces candidacy for Lubbock County Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Rebeca Gonzales announced her candidacy for Lubbock County Clerk in the upcoming 2026 Republican Primary election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/11\/20\/kerri-padilla-announces-campaign-lubbock-county-clerk\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/11\/20\/kerri-padilla-announces-campaign-lubbock-county-clerk\/\">current County Clerk Kelly Pinion announced she will not seek reelection<\/a> after nearly 20 years of service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gonzales has served in the Lubbock County Clerk\u2019s office since January 2018 as Deputy Clerk in the Vitals Department. She later transitioned to the Criminal Department in February 2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIf elected, I will work closely with my staff to ensure a seamless transition in leadership and maintain the consistency of our day-to-day operations,\u201d Gonzales said. \u201cI am passionate about the work that is required require of our office, and I look forward to continuing to provide the exceptional service that the citizens of Lubbock County deserve.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gonzales is a lifelong Lubbock County resident and graduate of Lubbock High School. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Rebeca Gonzales announced her candidacy for Lubbock County Clerk in the upcoming 2026 Republican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[319,251,1063,168,13589,31546,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-59811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-kcbd","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-local-politics","11":"tag-lubbock","12":"tag-lubbock-county","13":"tag-lubbock-county-clerk","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59811","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=59811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}