Post by pavel on Jan 24, 2016 23:35:53 GMT -6
District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, whose 2013 DWI arrest led indirectly to then-Gov. Rick Perry being indicted and to the Legislature crippling her office’s Public Integrity Unit, will step down in January 2017 after eight years as Travis County’s top prosecutor.
Voters will take a big step toward deciding who will replace Lehmberg in the March 1 Democratic primary, which usually decides the winner in the general election in deep-blue Travis County.
The three Democratic candidates are Gary Cobb, who heads the district attorney office’s grand jury division; Margaret Moore, a former elected county attorney and prosecutor in the state attorney general’s office; and Rick Reed, a defense attorney and former prosecutor. Civil litigator Maura Phelan, also a former prosecutor, is running unopposed for the Republican nomination.
Political insiders and donors often form alliances for an election a year before voters learn the candidates’ names. For most of last year, Cobb appeared to be a lock to replace Lehmberg, with major supporters lining up behind him and no challenger emerging from either party.
Read more: www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/three-democrats-vie-to-replace-da-rosemary-lehmber/nqBc8/?icmp=statesman_internallink_referralbox_free-to-premium-referral
Voters will take a big step toward deciding who will replace Lehmberg in the March 1 Democratic primary, which usually decides the winner in the general election in deep-blue Travis County.
The three Democratic candidates are Gary Cobb, who heads the district attorney office’s grand jury division; Margaret Moore, a former elected county attorney and prosecutor in the state attorney general’s office; and Rick Reed, a defense attorney and former prosecutor. Civil litigator Maura Phelan, also a former prosecutor, is running unopposed for the Republican nomination.
Political insiders and donors often form alliances for an election a year before voters learn the candidates’ names. For most of last year, Cobb appeared to be a lock to replace Lehmberg, with major supporters lining up behind him and no challenger emerging from either party.
Read more: www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/three-democrats-vie-to-replace-da-rosemary-lehmber/nqBc8/?icmp=statesman_internallink_referralbox_free-to-premium-referral