 Others in the field were two candidates defeated earlier by the Democrat Henry Cuellar of District 28 in the United States House of Representatives, Ron Avery (born 1947), a retired architect from Seguin who ran in 2006, and Jim Fish (born 1957), a small business owner from Cibolo, who ran for Congress in 2008.Avery and Fish filed as Republicans for the special legislative election, but Avery had previously been a Constitution Party candidate for Congress.Still another candidate, Robin Walker, had lost in the March 2, 2010, Republican primary to the elder Kuempel.