HOUSTON – Sixteen people are vying to fill Houston’s 18th Congressional District seat, a position left vacant after the passing of Sylvester Turner in March.
All this week, KPRC 2 is introducing you to the top candidates hoping to serve out the remainder of Turner’s term. To keep things fair, we literally pulled names from a mug to decide who we feature each day.
- LIST: Who’s running for 18th congressional district?
Christian Menefee, the current Harris County Attorney, polling the highest – has earned a wave of major endorsements including support from the family of the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. But Menefee says those endorsements don’t make him the ‘establishment candidate.’
“Oh, I don’t consider myself an establishment candidate at all,” Menefee said in an interview with KPRC 2’s Rilwan Balogun. “When I ran for county attorney in 2020, I ran against a three-term incumbent. Everybody told me I didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning that race. I didn’t have a single elected official endorsement, and I still won with 50% of the vote.”…