Publish Date: 6/6/2008

GOP signs up candidates for county seats

Longmont Times-Call

BOULDER — There will be a full slate of Republican candidates for the Boulder County government offices up for election this year.

On Thursday, a county GOP vacancy committee turned in paperwork designating Lafayette resident Dick Murphy as the party’s candidate for the District 3 seat on the Board of County Commissioners, according to Jessie Cornelius, spokeswoman for the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office.

That vacancy committee also named Boulder resident K. Maya Turner to be the GOP candidate for county assessor.

Murphy, who runs an investment fund, is a onetime Boulder County Republican Chairman, a former deputy state treasurer and the former chief financial officer of the Boulder Valley School District.

Murphy’s candidacy for the District 3 seat sets up a three-way race with incumbent Democratic Commissioner Cindy Domenico of Lafayette and Libertarian Randy Luallin of Louisville.

Murphy’s wife, Val, said her husband was out of state on a family emergency Thursday but was expected to return today.

Turner, who also couldn’t be reached for comment Thursday evening, was designated by the vacancy committee to be the GOP’s candidate in a contest with incumbent Boulder County Treasurer Jerry Roberts, a Boulder Democrat.

Murphy, meanwhile, was chairman of a separate 20th Judicial District vacancy committee trying to find a Republican lawyer to face off against Boulder Democrat Stan Garnett in this year’s election for Boulder district attorney.

But Murphy’s wife said Thursday that her husband apparently had been unable to recruit a GOP candidate for DA.