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Commerce candidate forum set for Thursday evening at City Hall

The event will feature mayoral candidates Teddy Reel and Coy Smith, along with school board candidates Abbie Harper and Henry Ross.

The City of Commerce will host a candidate forum Thursday evening presenting those running for local office in the May election. Commerce Mayor Teddy Reel is running for re-election. That office will be contested by Coy Smith. The Commerce Independent School District will have one contested place on the Commerce ISD Board of Trustees. Abbie Harper and Henry Ross are both running for Place 3 on the school board.

All four candidates will take questions in a public forum that will take place in the Commerce City Council chamber, located in the municipal complex at 1119 Alamo Street. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., with the forum scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. The event will be broadcast live on KETR.

Two Commerce ISD incumbent board members are running unopposed for re-election. Place 2’s Tamara Beadles and Place 1 trustee and current board president Kathleen Hooten have no opposition. There are no Commerce City Council seats on this spring’s ballots. The election will be held on Saturday, May 3.

Details about Thursday evening’s candidate forum can be found at the “City of Commerce, Texas” Facebook page.

Mark Haslett served as KETR's News Director from February 2013 to June 2025. During his tenure the station's news operation enjoyed an increase in listener engagement and audience metrics, as well recognition in the Texas AP Broadcasters awards and a National Edward R. Murrow award.