{"id":79804,"date":"2025-12-08T00:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79804\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:27:06","slug":"democratic-candidate-maggie-durham-running-for-texas-house-district-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79804\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic candidate Maggie Durham running for Texas House District 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Democratic candidate Dr. Maggie Durham is challenging Lubbock State Representative Carl Tepper for his seat. Dr. Durham announced her candidacy for Texas House District 84. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She says her campaign is focused on strengthening rural communities, elevating the state\u2019s public education system and expanding opportunities for students and families across the South Plains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTexas should be a national leader in education, not hovering near the bottom. We owe our students and teachers so much more, and I intend to fight for the investment and respect they deserve,\u201d Durham said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dr. Durham is a community advocate, parent and lifelong Texan with deep roots in the South Plains. She has spent years working on issues that impact working families, public schools and rural communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Democratic candidate Dr. Maggie Durham is challenging Lubbock State Representative Carl Tepper for his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3100,319,251,1063,168,170,169,38981,287,2332,38980],"class_list":["post-79804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-carl-tepper","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-local-politics","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-maggie-durham","tag-politics","tag-texas-house","tag-texas-house-district-84"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79804","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=79804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}