Houston state Rep. Rick Noriega won’t have a clean shot at the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate after all – Corpus Christi high school teacher Ray McMurrey announced Tuesday that he is throwing his hat in the ring, as well. Although on the Democratic ballot, he says he’s running as a “populist independent.” “I feel like I’m the only real progressive in the race,” McMurrey told the Chronicle.
McMurrey will officially announce his candidacy today at the home of D’Ann Johnson and Alan Pogue, 1604 E. 11th, at 2pm.
The winner of the Noriega-McMurrey (and theoretically, possibly more candidates) race will then challenge Republican incumbent John Cornyn.
This article appears in November 16 • 2007.