‘I’ve put that all behind me’; Clayton Perry is considering running for mayor after pleading no contest to DWI, hit-and-run in ’23

Former City Council Member Clayton Perry, who pleaded no contest last year to charges of driving while intoxicated and fleeing the scene of an accident, is weighing a 2025 mayoral run. “I really enjoyed it on council, and people have been saying, ‘Clayton, you need to get involved again and run for an office,’ ” Perry told the San Antonio Express-News. “I’ve been thinking about that. I’ve been praying about that and asking for guidance and looking at that possibility that’s coming up this next May. “I’m talking to a lot of people, getting their input on what they think — if I should or shouldn’t,” he said.

Perry was nearing the end of his third term representing the Northeast Side’s District 10 when he drunkenly crashed into a Honda Civic idling at the intersection of Jones Maltsberger and Redland roads the night of Nov. 6, 2022. He then drove home without stopping at the accident scene. Neither the driver of the Civic nor his passenger was injured. A San Antonio police officer later found Perry sprawled in the backyard of his home, barely coherent and with a bloody wound on his head, as seen on the officer’s body-camera video. Perry had consumed 14 alcoholic beverages in four hours at the Evil Olive, a North Side bar and restaurant, before getting behind the wheel of a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, according to a police affidavit.