Tag Archive | "House District 59"
Ignacio sheepman J. Paul Brown is now the second Republican in the race to try to keep Rep. Ellen Roberts’ House District 59 seat in the hands of the GOP.
Durango Democrat Brian O’Donnell will have a challenger for his bid to replace Ellen Roberts as the region’s representative to the state House.
“What a hatchet job the Republican Party – along with The Durango Herald – did on Lew Webb, the one-time candidate for the state representative of the 59th District,” Paul Bynum writes.
Republican Lew Webb has dropped out of the race to replace Ellen Roberts as state representative for the 59th District because local GOP party leaders deemed him too conservative, he said Wednesday.