Rees Langston is the third of four generations in her family to travel to South Padre Island.
"We started coming down every year. We would come down in August, and eventually, my dad became self-employed," she said. "Then we were able to come and spend the entire month."
In 1999, Langston made the Island her home after visiting here for years as a tourist. In her free time, she's heavily involved in the Island Walk for Women for breast cancer awareness. The Walk for Women focuses on donating money to help local women who have breast cancer and are struggling financially.
"We basically just give them the check, and they spend it on whatever they need to spend," she said.
Langston's priorities, if elected from Place 4, are establishing a middle ground for residents and business owners concerning golf carts and short-term rentals, (STR), and enforcing current city ordinances.
"There doesn't need to be these factions of people who seem to be fighting each other as opposed to trying to do what's good for the whole," Langston said.
Langston is excited to be a problem solver and plans to change communication by not being afraid to give bad news and own up to mistakes.
"We used to say that the bad news gets worse over time in the management industry," she said. "I'm not afraid to face the bad news and come up with solutions to solve that problem."
Her hopes for the island's future are to work on the hostility between different schools of thought and agree to disagree or compromise.
"I think the entire island needs to understand that just because you disagree with your neighbor doesn't make your neighbor a bad person."
