Pima County Supervisors appoint Ted Vogt to LD 30 House seat

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Friend of Blog for Arizona Carolyn Classen at the Tucson Citizen reports on this morning's meeting of the Pima County Board of Supervisors. Supervisors appoint Vogt to LD 30 State House seat – Carolyn's Community:

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Supervisor Carroll (whose district 4 includes LD 30) made the nomination this morning, saying that Vogt was the “lead vote getter” in the selection process. (Vogt had been nominated as well by the precinct committeemen/women for the vacant LD 30 State Senate seat).

LD 30 Chair Vogt was the top vote getter in the March 10 selection meeting and he is a UA third year law student and former Captain in the U.S. Air Force (served 6 years). The other two nominees were Parralee Schneider, a Tucson realtor and 3rd VP of the State GOP, and Doug Sposito, a small business general contractor and former LD 30 Chair.

Vogt will serve out Antenori’s term, when the General Election on Nov. 2nd will determine the 2 state house reps. in LD 30. Vogt got his B.A. from Yale University, and clerked under U.S. Senator Jon Kyl and Vice President Dick Cheney on homeland security matters.

Oh, dear God help us. Kyl and Cheney? Here is Ted Vogt's nomination speech for the earlier senate seat appointment for an introduction. H/t TheAZW88's Channel

Several Republican candidates have already filed to run for these house seats in LD 30, and will all compete in the August 24 primary:

–incumbent House Rep. David Gowan
–Kurt Knurr, a systems engineer for a Defense Contractor
–Parralee Schneider, one of the nominees listed above
–Doug Sposito, one of the nominees listed above, former candidate for this house seat in 2004 and 2008.
–Ted Vogt, appointed today to this house seat

Candidate Brian Abbott also recently filed to run for this seat, and is a partner in a telecommunications consulting & contracting firm. According to him he is a Republican, though no party affiliation is listed on the state campaign finance website.

Democrat Andrea Dalessandro, (a retired tax accountant and instructor), who also was a candidate for LD 30 state house in 2008, is the lone Democrat in this field so far. See: www.andreaforaz.net.