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Remember Greg Sowards, the Republican who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money to spread his catchy slogan — short, bald and honest — when he was running for Congress earlier this year?
Though he lost that race, many Las Crucens will get another chance to vote for him in November.
Republican Scott Seiler has dropped out of the District 5 Doña Ana County Commission race, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting. The party has replaced him on the ballot with Sowards.
With a clever slogan and easy-to-remember Web address — shortbaldhonest.com — Sowards secured 17 percent of the vote in the 2nd Congressional District Republican primary in June and won Doña Ana County, but he lost that five-way race to Ed Tinsley.
Sowards will face Democrat Leticia Benavidez in November. The winner will replace Bill McCamley on the commission.
Matthew Martin, the Republican who had been running against state Rep. Antonio Lujan, D-Las Cruces, in the District 35 race, has also dropped out, the newspaper reported. The GOP has not yet replaced Martin on the ballot.
