CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Nueces County Sheriff candidate Mike Tamez has changed parties. He is now running for sheriff as a Democrat.
The announcement came earlier Thursday during a campaign event for the former 'conservative Republican.'
The former supervisor of the now dismantled Nueces County District Attorney's Criminal Interdiction unit was brought on stage during the event by former Nueces County DA Mark Gonzalez.
That task force disbanded last October.
We caught up with Tamez after his announcement to ask -- why the change?
"I cannot be in the same party that is going to allow a sheriff and a county judge and a district attorney to go around and do these kinds of things to other republicans," said Tamez.
"It's cannibalism... I can look beyond the whole 'me getting fired,' and the task force getting disbanded, but what I can't look behind is... that is doing that to its own candidates."
Tamez is running against current Nueces County Sheriff and incumbent, Sheriff John Hooper.
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