Greg Travis
The special election to fill west Houston’s District G seat on City Council will be Tuesday, Jan. 25.
City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to call the election. Candidates interested in the position have until Dec. 16 to file for a place on the ballot.
Councilmember Greg Travis, who currently holds the post, resigned last month to run for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives.
“I’m going to miss you all,” Travis told his colleagues after the vote. He will remain on council until his successor is sworn in.
Several people already have signaled interest privately in running, although it is not clear whether anyone plans to file to run for the seat Wednesday. If no candidate wins more than half the vote in the Jan. 25 contest, the election would require a runoff.
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Special elections for council seats typically are low-turnout affairs. The previous two contests — in 2018 and 2020 — attracted between 5 and 7 percent of eligible voters.
See here for the background. Obviously, someone is going to file for the seat. I presume the story meant that it wasn’t clear whether or when any of the “signaling interest” candidates will file. This is a Republican district and there’s no reason to think the next Council member will be anything but a Republican. It’s more a matter of whether they’ll be in the performative grievance class that is now the GOP mainstream or if they’ll be in the old school bidness-friendly group. The latter would be refreshing these days. The filing deadline here is basically what it is for the primaries, so we’ll know in about five weeks who’s doing what.
Mary Nan Huffman and Sandie Mullins Moger are the names I have heard so far.