– A little less than two months after he took a leave of absence, Clayton Perry reclaimed his District 10 seat again with the rest of the San Antonio City Council on Thursday.
A San Antonio Police officer later found Perry, who represents Council District 10, lying on the ground in his backyard, moaning with a cut on his head and smelling of alcohol. “It’s been a tough couple of months, but I want to assure everyone that I kept my commitment I made at the last meeting to follow all the appropriate measures as recommended by medical experts and will continue to do so,” Perry said.
Approached by a KSAT reporter on his way into Thursday’s meeting, Perry largely deferred to the statement he planned to deliver, though he did say he hadn’t “even thought about” whether he would seek reelection on the May 6 ballot. He avoided questions a third time during a lunch break as he headed back to City Hall. Asked why he had decided to come back with the charges still pending, Perry insisted it was in his statement. He also refused to talk about his DWI charge.
While fellow council members passed a vote of “no-confidence,” most of them voted first to remove from the resolution a request for Perry to resign his seat.