El Pasoans will select six City Council Representatives and a Mayor in the General Election taking place on November 5. Early voting starts October 21.
You know, right around the corner.
The way I cipher it, there are 32 candidates running for those seven offices. In all those races, among all those candidates, there are only two incumbents running for reelection, and one of those, District 2 City Representative Josh Acevedo, has only served on City Council since late January, 2023, when he replaced Alexsandra Annello who resigned to run for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives.
Three of the mayoral candidates are current City Council Representatives. District 1 Representative Brian Kennedy and District 5 Representative Isabel Salcido will resign their seats on City Council after their successors take office in January. District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez has termed out and won’t be returning to City Council as a Representative, but she might become mayor if she can convince enough voters that the Gas Card Scandal was a temporary lapse of judgement and not an indicator of major moral turpitude.
I expect the future of El Paso City Government will be clearer after the first election on November 5 whittles down the candidates into run-off elections.
You can see (almost) all the candidates at a Candidate Forum taking place in the Flexitorium of the Valle Verde Campus of the El Paso Community College this Saturday, October 5, at 11 am.
The forum is sponsored by the Community First Coalition and the League of Women Voters.