Fort Worth mayoral election headed for a runoff between Mattie Parker, Deborah Peoples
Peoples was leading Parker late Saturday, with neither approaching the 50% margin needed to win outright.
After several days of mist and rain, clouds began to dissipate over the Fort Worth skyline and Dickies Arena, Wednesday afternoon, October 28, 2020. Temperatures should begin rising going into the weekend after lows in the 30 s. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) with more results.
Fort Worth’s mayoral race is headed for a runoff.
Deborah Peoples, chairwoman of the Tarrant County Democratic Party, and Mattie Parker, the former chief of staff to Mayor Betsy Price, appeared likely to meet in a June 5 runoff election to determine who will succeed Price, the city’s longest-serving leader.
Heads up, Fort Worth voters: There are 2 pages of candidates
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Fort Worth will have its first new mayor in 10 years. Here are the candidates vying to replace Betsy Price
Fort Worth will have its first new mayor in 10 years. Here are the candidates vying to replace Betsy Price
An education advocate/attorney with big-ticket endorsements, two city council members, and the chair of the Tarrant County Democratic Party headline a race which will likely end in a runoff.
After several days of mist and rain, clouds began to dissipate over the Fort Worth skyline, Wednesday afternoon, October 28, 2020. Temperatures should begin rising going into the weekend after lows in the 30 s. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
Brian Byrd
Brian Byrd currently serves as a Fort Worth City Councilmember representing District 3, a position he’s held since 2017. In addition, he’s a founder and physician of Texas Family Medicine as well as a former CEO of Texas Hospice. Byrd attended UT Austin and majored in international business and minored in marketing. He later went to medical school at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and obtained a master’s degree in church-state studies at Baylor. If elected, Byrd’s focuses will be on keeping taxes low, attracting high-paying quality jobs to the city, creating an educated, job-ready workforce, maintaining a safe and welcoming city, and having an efficient government. Click here to learn more about this candidate.
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We interviewed candidates in 28 local elections. Here are summaries of each race.
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District 6: Michael Wood (R)
Michael Wood, 34, set himself apart in a huge field of 23 candidates that will likely result in a runoff to fill the seat of late Congressman Ron Wright, who died of COVID-19 in February. Wood is a Fort Worth businessman and military veteran who we think embodies key conservative principles of limited government, low taxes, reducing debt, reforming entitlement programs, religious liberty, free trade and support of Second Amendment rights. But what sets him apart from other Republicans is his willingness to tackle hard truths about his own party. Wood said the GOP has become a “cult of personalit
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