LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Carrie Cox, the Ward III Henderson Metropolis Councilwoman whose first time period was marked by occasional public disagreements with the mayor and council, introduced her re-election Thursday.
Cox gave her first tv interview in a wide-ranging dialog with the 8 Information Now Investigators.
Requested what she realized in her first time period, Cox answered: “Well, I really learned about how to truly serve constituents and what that looks like at the city so I could best help people that needed help. And that’s really what it’s about. Right – it’s about being able to take a problem and being able to resolve it for our residents.”
Cox gained a contentious marketing campaign in opposition to a candidate endorsed by Mayor Michelle Romero in 2022 as an at-large candidate, however gained the vast majority of votes within the ward she presently serves.
Cox filed a lawsuit in opposition to her earlier opponent, Trish Nash, and the Las Vegas Realtor Affiliation, previous to election day for what Cox referred to as “damage to my reputation.”
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She claimed that their Political Motion Committee launched slanderous flyers about her. Nash denied Cox’s allegations.
In April, Romero, who has sparred with Cox throughout council conferences and finally threatened authorized motion in opposition to her, additionally introduced her re-election for 2026. Romero’s and Cox’s re-elections are the one two high-level elections in Henderson’s 2026 race. Cox denied any wrongdoing with regard to Romero’s allegations.
The town faces a $10 million funds deficit for the upcoming fiscal 12 months, in response to feedback Romero made at a public assembly this week. And the applying deadline for a brand new chief of the Henderson Police Division looms after town supervisor fired the earlier police chief, Hollie Chadwick, in March.
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The division now seeks to rent its tenth police chief up to now 25 years. Cox misplaced the assist of town’s two police unions in February.
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She had the endorsement of these unions throughout her 2022 run for workplace. She mentioned this throughout Friday’s interview with the 8 Information Now Investigators.
8NN: Once you ran your first election and gained, you had some endorsements that you simply not have, for no matter motive. Do you suppose you may go win spherical two with these endorsements not there?
Cox: Effectively, for one, I do not know that I will not have these endorsements, and I feel what’s essential is that I proved myself. And I have not finished something fallacious to lose any endorsements. And I am going to proceed to battle for police. I am going to proceed to battle for fireplace. And I’ll go win as a result of it is not, I feel, as a lot about endorsements as the standard of the individual sitting in that seat. And so I’ve had the good thing about being there and doing the issues that I have to do to earn that seat, and I consider I am going to win.”
Cox and Romero each run unopposed at this early stage of their respective 2026 races.
