{"id":156558,"date":"2025-08-18T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156558\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:06:08","slug":"rep-ray-lopez-of-san-antonio-will-not-seek-reelection-to-texas-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156558\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ray Lopez of San Antonio will not seek reelection to Texas House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/newsletters\/the-brief\/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=trib-ads-owned&amp;utm_campaign=trib-marketing&amp;utm_term=inline-CTA-brief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up for The Brief<\/a>, The Texas Tribune\u2019s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">State Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/ray-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ray Lopez<\/a>, a San Antonio Democrat, will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the Legislature\u2019s lower chamber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Lopez, who was elected to the state house in 2019, previously served on the San Antonio City Council. He said he will support his chief of staff, Donovon Rodriguez, who intends to pursue the open seat, though he acknowledged it \u201cwill be a crowded race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Lopez\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/districts\/tx-house\/125\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House District 125<\/a> covers parts of west and northwest San Antonio and Bexar County. The district is likely to remain in Democratic hands, having voted 57% for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Lopez\u2019s retirement is the latest shakeup in the Capitol following this year\u2019s legislative session. State Reps. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/giovanni-capriglione\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giovanni Capriglione<\/a>, R-Southlake, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/tony-tinderholt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Tinderholt<\/a>, R-Arlington, also will not seek rerelection. In the upper chamber, Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/robert-nichols\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Nichols<\/a>, R-Jacksonville, has also announced his retirement at the end of his term \u2014 and Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/trent-ashby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trent Ashby<\/a>, R-Lufkin, launched a campaign to try to succeed Nichols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">More all-star speakers confirmed for The Texas Tribune Festival, Nov. 13\u201315! This year\u2019s lineup just got even more exciting with the addition of State Rep. <strong>Caroline Fairly<\/strong>, R-Amarillo; former United States Attorney General <strong>Eric Holder<\/strong>; <strong>Abby Phillip<\/strong>, anchor of \u201cCNN NewsNight\u201d; <strong>Aaron Reitz<\/strong>, 2026 Republican candidate for Texas Attorney General; and State Rep. <strong>James Talarico<\/strong>, D-Austin. <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.it\/tribfest2025-site-footer-TA4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your tickets today!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">TribFest 2025 is presented by JPMorganChase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune\u2019s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,80,91172,7202,7203,358,67811,7376,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-156558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-politics","10":"tag-ray-lopez","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-house-of-representatives","15":"tag-texas-legislature","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115051573128663538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}