Deborah Ross, a former N.C. state congresswoman and attorney resigned from her current job at Triangle Transit Authority to consider a Democratic challenge against incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Richard Burr.
Ross is an interesting choice for the North Carolina Democratic Party to have approached considering she is a devoted liberal. Most Democrats who run successfully statewide in North Carolina are moderates.
"Some people are talking to me about it" she said in an interview with the News and Observer to a question if she was asked to run.
Her resignation is a clear sign that she is giving serious consideration to the idea of running for the North Carolina Democratic Party's nomination. The party has slim pickings for a serious candidate to challenge Burr next year. The possibilities include a handful of obscure state senators and former U.S. Senator Kay Hagan who lost her seat to U.S. Senator Thom Tillis in 2014.
Ross was first elected to the State House in 2002 and became the Majority Whip in 2007 until Democrats lost control of the House. She resigned in 2013 to become general counsel of the Triangle Transit bus authority.
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