New Legislators To Be Selected
Long-time community activist Rebecca Chavez-Houck is the likely
front-runner to replace House Minority Leader Ralph Becker in
Legislative District 24 when delegates meet Wednesday to choose a new
representative.
Becker was elected mayor of Salt Lake City last month and is
resigning from the Legislature to assume that post.
Chavez-Houck is among five candidates who have applied to replace
Becker. About 80 delegates from District 24 will make the selection
prior to the Salt Lake County Democratic Central Committee meeting
Wednesday evening in the Salt Lake County Council Chambers.
Chavez-Houck headed the Hispanic Advocacy organization, Centro
de la Familia for years. She had originally put in her name
to replace Democratic Sen. Paula Julander when she resigned a couple
of years ago, but withdrew her name because of the federal Hatch Act
against federal employees running for office. Her advocacy group
receives federal funds.
She most recently has been communications director for the House
Democratic Caucus.
Also running are Mark Swonson, who is involved in the
environmental caucus of the party; David Berg, who has challenged
Becker in the Democratic Convention for the House seat in the past;
Richard Goldberger, a community activist who works as an independent
journalist and founded the now-defunct Salt Flat News, and Trudy
Henderson, a long-time school teacher who was heavily involved in the
movement to defeat the voucher law.
Delegates in Senate District 5 will also meet Wednesday and
elect Karen Mayne, the only candidate who has filed to replace her
husband, Sen. Ed Mayne, who died of cancer last month.
The two choices selected by the delegates in their respective
districts Wednesday will be sent to Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., who will
make the formal appointments.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
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front-runner to replace House Minority Leader Ralph Becker in
Legislative District 24 when delegates meet Wednesday to choose a new
representative.
Becker was elected mayor of Salt Lake City last month and is
resigning from the Legislature to assume that post.
Chavez-Houck is among five candidates who have applied to replace
Becker. About 80 delegates from District 24 will make the selection
prior to the Salt Lake County Democratic Central Committee meeting
Wednesday evening in the Salt Lake County Council Chambers.
Chavez-Houck headed the Hispanic Advocacy organization, Centro
de la Familia for years. She had originally put in her name
to replace Democratic Sen. Paula Julander when she resigned a couple
of years ago, but withdrew her name because of the federal Hatch Act
against federal employees running for office. Her advocacy group
receives federal funds.
She most recently has been communications director for the House
Democratic Caucus.
Also running are Mark Swonson, who is involved in the
environmental caucus of the party; David Berg, who has challenged
Becker in the Democratic Convention for the House seat in the past;
Richard Goldberger, a community activist who works as an independent
journalist and founded the now-defunct Salt Flat News, and Trudy
Henderson, a long-time school teacher who was heavily involved in the
movement to defeat the voucher law.
Delegates in Senate District 5 will also meet Wednesday and
elect Karen Mayne, the only candidate who has filed to replace her
husband, Sen. Ed Mayne, who died of cancer last month.
The two choices selected by the delegates in their respective
districts Wednesday will be sent to Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., who will
make the formal appointments.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
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