State Rep. Norma Chavez, D-El Paso, announced today on a local radio show — "The Strelz" hosted by Paul Strelzin — that she plans to run for reelection to the Texas House instead of making a go at the state Senate seat that Eliot Shapleigh is vacating. She confirmed her decision to run for reelection in a text message to The Tribune this evening and later released a public statement.

"She had weighed her pros and cons and she felt she had done many, many things … and she didn’t want to give that up, and she thought she could do best ...

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