AUSTIN (AP) -- Former gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn is running for mayor of Austin - again.
Strayhorn's campaign said Sunday the 69-year-old plans to officially announce her candidacy Monday, three decades after first winning the job before her rise in state politics.
Campaign coordinator Kevin Brown wouldn't elaborate on the announcement, only saying that Strayhorn "will make perfectly clear" Monday why she wants the office again.
Strayhorn served as Austin's first woman mayor from 1977 to 1983. She began her political career as a Democrat, then switched to the GOP before her election to the Texas Railroad Commission and then comptroller.
A self-described "one tough grandma," Strayhorn ran unsuccessfully for governor as an independent candidate in 2006.
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