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The Denver Post reports:
Republicans in Colorado’s sprawling 4th Congressional District on Thursday night chose former Parker Mayor Greg Lopez as their nominee to appear on the June 25 special election ballot to fill out the rest of former Rep. Ken Buck’s term.
Lopez, a conservative who ran unsuccessfully for Colorado governor in 2018 and 2022, has said publicly he won’t run in the district’s Republican primary election, which will be held on the same day. So that leaves a field of nine GOP candidates, including Rep. Lauren Boebert, vying to win that contest with the hopes of going on to the general election in November.
Democrats will hold their own nomination process for the special election Monday, although in such a heavily Republican-leaning district the winner of that contest will have an uphill battle to defeat Lopez in June.
Read the full article. In case the above isn’t clear, Lopez would only be in office until January, at which time the winner of the general election will be seated. Lopez last appeared here in 2022 when he called for eliminating the popular vote to determine winners in state races, proposing a sort of statewide electoral college that would give outsized power to rural counties.
Former gubernatorial hopeful Greg Lopez gets GOP nomination for 4th District special election https://t.co/8HLo1UGkG6
— The Denver Post (@denverpost) March 29, 2024