District 1: Roy & Lerma headed to runoff election [Video]

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Incumbent Everett Roy and former Dist. 1 city councilman Bill Lerma are headed to a runoff after neither candidate managed to secure more than 51 percent of the vote Tuesday night.

Roy was facing challenges from not only former Dist. 1 city councilman Billy Lerma, pastor Anthony Aquino, sales and marketing manager John Garcia and consultant Eli McKay.   

The District 1 councilperson represents North Beach, Downtown, Uptown and North Side Corpus Christi, Calallen and Annaville.

The Dist. 1 candidates had nuanced responses to whether they supported the Inner Harbor Desalination Project when 3NEWS asked them to fill out questionnaires in October, with Lerma saying a definite “No.”

Roy and Garcia both said they supported …