{"id":205385,"date":"2025-09-06T16:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205385\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T16:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:19:18","slug":"ballot-set-for-houston-city-council-at-large-position-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205385\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballot set for Houston City Council At-Large Position 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFifteen candidates are running to fill City Council member At-Large Position 4 Letitia Plummer\u2019s seat, after she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drletitiaplummer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced her candidacy<\/a> for the Harris County judge position July 8, effectively resigning her post on council.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet the candidates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is the list of candidates who have filed to run for the seat by the Sept. 3 deadline, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/2025-al4-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obes Nwabara, who previously declared his intentions to run for City Council, announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOGhsykDrSm\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sept. 2 social media post<\/a> that he has suspended his campaign because of the &#8220;current threat faced by marginalized communities in our city&#8221; and his belief that the city needs to unite behind a single candidate.<\/p>\n<p><b>More details<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If elected, the candidate will remain in the seat until the term ends Jan. 1, 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The last day to register to vote is Oct. 6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/elections\/voter\/important-election-dates.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Early voting<\/a> begins Oct. 20, and Election Day is Nov. 4.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen candidates are running to fill City Council member At-Large Position 4 Letitia Plummer\u2019s seat, after she announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[113123,5310,8988,4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-205385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-at-large-position-4","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115158264403054376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205385","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=205385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}