Democratic congressional candidate Nate McMurray speaks throughout a press convention on the United Auto Employees, Native 686 union corridor in Lockport on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
Derek Gee
Shedding three consecutive congressional races is not forcing Nate McMurray to shrink back from politics.
Quite the opposite, the previous Grand Island city supervisor and proud progressive – who misplaced three races in New York’s twenty seventh District up to now three years – is brimming with political ideas nowadays.
He’s attacking one in all Buffalo’s hottest politicians, Rep. Brian Higgins, a Buffalo Democrat, from the left. Requested if he may problem Higgins in a Democratic major subsequent 12 months, McMurray stated he has no plans to take action – however added: “I feel any individual ought to.”
Past that, McMurray is writing a guide, and he is beginning a political motion committee. It is all aimed to maintain alive the flickering progressive flame he lit in New York’s most conservative congressional district.
“We need to proceed to be concerned in politics – not simply me,” McMurray stated of himself and the loyal group of supporters surrounding him. “And I stated: if I create this PAC, it is a method for us to have a voice, otherwise you guys to have a voice, too.”
McMurray nonetheless has a voice – and almost 19,000 followers – on Twitter, and it is there that he took goal at Higgins earlier this month.
To listen to McMurray inform it, Higgins ought to have known as for the resignation of Rep. Chris Jacobs, the Orchard Park Republican who beat McMurray in a particular election and the November election final 12 months. Different native Democrats have known as for Jacobs to give up after he voted in opposition to certifying the election outcomes that made Democrat Joe Biden president, however Higgins has not.
