Incumbents Shane Arabie and Diane Hervol have filed for re-election to the Kyle City Council and each will face one opponent.
The deadline for filing for the May election was 5 p.m. today. Depending on the outcome of the Charter Review election, which will be on the same ballot, this could be the last City Council election held in May.
Arabie will actually be seeking his first three-year term on the council. He originally won his seat in an August 2014 special election when he ran to fill the unexpired term of Chad Benninghoff, who resigned his seat a year after winning it. Hervol is seeking her third thee-year term. She will be opposed by Mitchell Motorsports CEO Travis Mitchell while Arabie will be facing off against Randall Lloyd, who lists his occupation as restaurant manager (at Applebee’s, so I’ve been told), but also appears to have dabbled somewhat in residential real estate with his own company called Byegone Era Santa’s.
For what it’s worth, it appears three of the four candidates — Arabie, Hervol and Lloyd — all moved to Kyle right around the same time. On their respective applications, each claimed to have lived in Kyle for 13 years, while Mitchell reported he moved here three years ago.
For the record, this blog has not in the past and has absolutely no plans in the future to endorse any candidate for any political office. Instead I will attempt to sit down with all four candidates running for the council and ask each of them essentially the same questions. I will then reproduce the transcripts of those conversations on this blog in attempt to better inform potential voters on what the candidates have to say on various issues. If any reader has a question they would like asked of all the candidates, please e-mail that question to me at poppel@twc.com or leave it in the comments section.
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