Progressive Austin councilmember will run for Lloyd Doggett's open D-35 seat
Greg Casar, who has served on the Austin City Council since 2015, will run for U.S. Congress, he announced Thursday.
Casar last month teased a race for federal office, saying he was “considering” a run and had convened a committee of advisers.
“I believe that working families from Bexar to Comal to Hays to Travis County deserve a progressive leader who will fight for and deliver on reproductive rights, Medicare for all, good jobs and a better Texas,” he told KUT.
Casar, 32, will vie to represent Texas’s 35th congressional district, which stretches from East Austin and down I-35 to San Antonio. He will first need to win the Democratic primary, which is scheduled for March 2022. U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who currently represents the district, announced last month he would be running to represent a new, more central Austin district created in the latest redistricting effort by state lawmakers.
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