LEMAN WINS DISTRICT 13 RUNOFF

  

Former Grimes County Judge Ben Leman will be the Republican nominee for the District-13 State Representative election in November.

Leman won Tuesday’s runoff election over Austin County business woman Jill Wolfskill.

Leman finished with 8052 votes—or 57%, to Wolfskill’s 6000 votes—or 43%.

Leman says he’s obviously elated with the victory…

It was Wolfskill who was ahead after the original primary in March, but Leman saw a drastic turnaround in the runoff.  Leman says he attributes that to the one-on-one nature of the runoff…

Leman will now face Democrat Cecil Webster in the November general election.

Leman says his first step is to re-unite the Republican Party…

Leman will now also assume the District-13 seat until the end of the year, after Leighton Schubert left the post for a position at Blinn College.

Both Lehman and Wolfskill agreed the loser of Tuesday’s election would drop out of a runoff for the remainder of Schubert’s term.

In Washington County, the results nearly mirrored the District-wide numbers, with Leman taking 1486 votes, which is 55%, and Wolfskill finishing with 1205 or 45%.