There are no Republican candidates for two of the Colorado Legislature’s Boulder County-based House districts in this year’s elections, county GOP chairwoman Ellyn Hilliard said Thursday.
“Not a soul” stepped forward, Hilliard said, by Thursday’s deadline for the county party to submit candidates’ for the GOP’s June primary election ballots in House District 10 and House District 12.
Nor has the Libertarian Party put up candidates for either of those two seats this year.
That means that Lafayette Democratic Rep. Mike Foote and Gunbarrel Democratic Rep. Dickey Lee Hullinghorst are virtually assured of re-election in November — unless unaffiliated candidates petition onto November’s general election ballots and successfully campaign to unseat the two incumbents.
Foote, a deputy Boulder County District attorney, is completing his first two-year term representing House District 12, which includes Louisville, Lafayette, southern and eastern parts of Longmont, and part of Erie.
Hullinghorst, who currently is the House Majority Leader, is a retired intergovernmental affairs director for Boulder County’s commissioners. She’s running for a fourth two-year term representing House District 10, which includes part of Boulder as well as the Gunbarrel and Valmont areas.
Two other Democratic state lawmakers who are Boulder County residents do face opposition in this year’s general election.
Longmont Rep. Jonathan Singer’s re-election bid in House District 11 — which includes most of central, western and northern Longmont as well as Allenspark, Altona, Lyons and Niwot — is being challenged by Longmont Republican Charlie Plagainos and Longmont Libertarian Bill Gibson.
Boulder Rep. KC Becker, a Boulder Democrat who represents a multiple-county House District 13 that includes part of southern and western Boulder as well as Eldora, Eldorado Springs, Jamestown, Nederland and Ward, will face Georgetown Republican Michael Hocevar in the general election.
Boulder County Republican chairwoman Hilliard confirmed on Thursday that the deadline has also passed for naming GOP candidates for this year’s elections for Boulder County government offices. The party hasn’t nominated anyone to run for the offices of District 3 county commissioner, county sheriff, county coroner, county clerk and recorder, county treasurer, county assessor and county surveyor.
Contact Times-Call staff writer John Fryar at 303-684-5211 or jfryar@times-call.com
