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'''Walter Thomas Price, IV,''' (born 1968), known as '''Four Price''' because he is the fourth generation in his family to bear the name Walter Thomas Price,<ref name=price>{{cite web|url=http://www.fourprice.org/|title=Vote Four Price|publisher=fourprice.org|accessdate=July 9. 2010}}</ref> is an attorney from Amarillo, [[Texas]], who is the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for the District 87 seat in the Texas House of Representatives in the [[general election]] pending on November 2, 2010. The position will be vacated in January 2011 by the long-term incumbent David Swinford, a Republican from [Dumas in Moore County who did not seek reelection.
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'''Walter Thomas Price, IV''' (born October 8, 1967), known as '''Four Price''' because he is the fourth generation in his family to bear the name Walter Thomas Price,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fourprice.org/|title=Vote Four Price|publisher=fourprice.org|accessdate=July 9. 2010}}</ref> is an attorney from [[Amarillo]], [[Texas]], who has been since November 2010 a [[Republican]] member of the Texas House of Representatives. He holds the District 87 seat, which was vacated on August 31, 2010, by the retirement of fellow Republican Representative [[David Swinford]] of Dumas, the seat of Moore County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amarillo.com/stories/083110/new_news2.shtml|title=Enrique Rangel, "Swinford resigning from House: Representative hasn't decided on his next career move," August 31, 2010|publisher=amarillo.com|accessdate=November 13, 2011}}</ref>
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==Background==
 
==Background==
Price graduated in 1986 from Tascosa High School in Amarillo. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a [[Juris Doctor]] from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio. He and his wife, the former Karen Diane Mayfield (born ca. 1964), have four children, Brooke, Cody, Abby, and Curry, ranging in ages (as of 2010) from nineteen to eleven, respectively.<ref name=price/>
 
 
Price advocates the placing of government "on a diet. It doesn't tax too little -- it just spends too much." If elected, he vows to bring the "voice of the Panhandle" to state government. His familial roots in the Texas Panhandle date to 1917, when his maternal great-grandfather, Jesse Benjamin Latham, settled his young family in Carson County before relocating to Amarillo.<ref name=price/>
 
  
Price practices business and [[probate]] law with the Amarillo firm Irwin, Merritt, Hogue, Price & Carthel, P.C. He previously practiced with Mullin, Hoard & Brown LLP in Amarillo and with Fulbright & Jaworski in San Antonio. Price is a director of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation, president of the Amarillo Area Bar Association, and a director of Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Foundation. He is a member and former deacon of the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Amarillo. A former director of the Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, he is also a life member of the University of Texas Ex-Students Association. Price is an avid outdoorsman.<ref name=price/>
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Price graduated from Tascosa High School in Amarillo. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the [[University of Texas]] at [[Austin]] and a [[Juris Doctor]] from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio. He and his wife, the former Karen Diane Mayfield (born c. 1964), have four children, Brooke, Cody, Abby, and Curry, ranging in ages (as of 2012) from twenty-one to thirteen, respectively.Price advocates the placing of government "on a diet. It doesn't tax too little -- it just spends too much." If elected, he vows to bring the "voice of the Panhandle" to state government. His familial roots in the Texas Panhandle date to 1917, when his maternal great-grandfather, Jesse Benjamin Latham, settled his young family in Carson County before relocating to Amarillo.Price practices business and [[probate]] law with the Amarillo firm Irwin, Merritt, Hogue, Price & Carthel, P.C. He previously practiced with Mullin, Hoard & Brown LLP in Amarillo and with Fulbright & Jaworski in San Antonio. Price is a director of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation, president of the Amarillo Area Bar Association, and a director of Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Foundation. He is a member and former deacon of the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Amarillo. A former director of the Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, he is also a life member of the University of Texas Ex-Students Association. Price is an avid outdoorsman.<ref>Four Price campaign website</ref>
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==Election history==
 
==Election history==
 
District 87 encompasses part of Potter as well as Carson, Sherman, and Moore counties.
 
 
Campaigning for the March 2 primary, Price ran what he called "grass-roots efforts, we knocked on a lot of doors and focused on what is important to the people."<ref name=amarillo>{{cite web|url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/030310/new_news1.shtml|title=Kevin Welch, 'Four' the one
 
'Grass-roots efforts' lift Price by Leal|publisher=amarillo.com|accessdate=July 15, 2010}}</ref>He defeated '''Victor E. Leal''' (born March 22, 1962), an Amarillo/Canyon businessman and the owner of Leal's Mexican Restaurants. Leal is also an appointee of [[Governor of Texas|Governor]] [[Rick Perry]] to the Texas Economic Development Corporation and the former [[mayor]] of Muleshoe in Bailey County, where the restaurant chain was originated by his father, the late Jesse Leal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.connectamarillo.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=305067|title=Owner of Leal's chosen for state-wide EDC, May 27, 2009|publisher=connectamarillo.com|accessdate=July 9, 2010}}</ref>  Price received 6,355 votes (55.2 percent) to Leal's 5,166 (44.8 percent).<ref name=elections>{{cite web|url=http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/mar02_148_state.htm?x=0&y=18482&id=272|title=Republican primary election returns, March 2, 2010|publisher=sos.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 6, 2010}}</ref>There were questions about Leal's residency, but the restauranteur carried the support of retiring Representative Swinford and former [[U.S. Representative]] Larry Combest.<ref name=amarillo/>
 
Leal said that the legislature needed more businesspeople like himself, instead of more lawyers like Price. However, Price retorted, "To say there's too many lawyers in the legislature is like saying there's too many doctors in a hospital."<ref name=amarillo>{{cite web|url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/030310/new_news1.shtml|title=Kevin Welch, 'Four' the one
 
'Grass-roots efforts' lift Price by Leal|publisher=amarillo.com|accessdate=July 15, 2010}}</ref>
 
 
Price now faces Abel G. Bosquez (born September 13, 1958) of Amarillo, a technician for Pantex, who was unopposed in the primary for the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nomination. Bosquez received 881 votes, whereas the Republican primary turnout was 11,521 ballots. There is also a [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] candidate, James Hudspeth of Dumas.<ref name=elections/>
 
  
The winner will serve with Republican colleague Representative John T. Smithee, also of Amarillo, who visited Price's home on the night of the election to offer support in the general election. "We had two outstanding candidates in this race, and I think either one of them would have done a super job. And you know Four has a good temperament and he has a hard work ethic, and he's really as honest as you can be."<ref name=ch10>{{cite web|url=http://www.newschannel10.com/global/story.asp?s=12076152|title=Four Price Wins Republican Primary|publisher=newschannel10.com|accessdate=July 15, 2010}}</ref>Leal also offered his support for Price in the fall campaign.<ref name=ch10/>
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District 87 encompasses part of Potter as well as Carson, Sherman, and Moore counties. Campaigning for the March 2 primary, Price ran what he called "grass-roots efforts, we knocked on a lot of doors and focused on what is important to the people."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/030310/new_news1.shtml|title=Kevin Welch, 'Four' the one 'Grass-roots efforts' lift Price by Leal|publisher=amarillo.com|accessdate=July 15, 2010}}</ref> Price defeated '''Victor E. Leal''' (born March 22, 1962), an Amarillo/Canyon businessman who owns Leal's Mexican Restaurants. Leal is an appointee of Governor [[Rick Perry]] to the Texas Economic Development Corporation and formerly served as the [[mayor]] of [[Muleshoe, Texas|Muleshoe]] in Bailey County, where the restaurant chain was originated by his father, the late Jesse Leal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.connectamarillo.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=305067|title=Owner of Leal's chosen for state-wide EDC, May 27, 2009|publisher=connectamarillo.com|accessdate=July 9, 2010}}</ref> In the primary, Price received 6,355 votes (55.2 percent) to Leal's 5,166 (44.8 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/mar02_148_state.htm?x=0&y=18482&id=272|title=Republican primary election returns, March 2, 2010|publisher=sos.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 6, 2010}}</ref>
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There were questions about Leal's residency, but the restauranteur carried the support of retiring Representative Swinford and former [[U.S. Representative]] [[Larry Combest]]. Leal said that the legislature needed more businesspeople like himself, instead of more lawyers like Price. However, Price retorted, "To say there's too many lawyers in the legislature is like saying there's too many doctors in a hospital."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/030310/new_news1.shtml|title=Kevin Welch, 'Four' the one 'Grass-roots efforts' lift Price by Leal|publisher=amarillo.com|accessdate=July 15, 2010}}</ref>
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In the general election held on November 2, 2010, Price handily defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Abel G. Bosquez, 16,978 votes (77.3 percent) to 4,145 (18.9 percent). The remaining 3.8 percent of the ballots went to the [[Libertarian Party|Libertarian]] James Hudspeth of Dumas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/nov02_154_state.htm|title=Texas general election returns, November 2, 2010|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=November 4, 2010}}</ref> Bosquez (born September 13, 1958) is a technician for [[Pantex]], who had been unopposed for his party's nomination. In the primary election, Bosquez received 881 votes, whereas the Republican primary turnout was 11,521 ballots.vPrice serves with Republican colleague Representative John T. Smithee, also of Amarillo, who visited Price's home on the night of the primary election to offer support in the general election. "We had two outstanding candidates in this race, and I think either one of them would have done a super job. And you know Four has a good temperament and he has a hard work ethic, and he's really as honest as you can be."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newschannel10.com/global/story.asp?s=12076152|title=Four Price Wins Republican Primary|publisher=newschannel10.com|accessdate=July 15, 2010}}</ref>
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After losing the primary, Leal endorsed Price in the fall campaign.Price also won the special election held simultaneously with the general election for the remaining weeks in Swinford's term. In September 2011, Speaker [[Joe Straus]] appointed Price to the Energy Council, a legislative body of members from eleven states, five Canadian provinces, and [[Venezuela]]. The council discusses energy policies and exchanges ideas regarding energy production.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2011-09-02/speaker-appoints-four-price-energy-council|title=Enrique Rangel, "Speaker appoints Four Price to Energy Council," September 2, 2011|publisher=amarillo.com|accessdate=November 14, 2011}}</ref>
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Revision as of 00:49, June 28, 2016

Texas State Representative
Walter Thomas "Four" Price, IV
Information
Party Republican
Spouse(s) Karen Diane Mayfield Price
Religion Presbyterian

Walter Thomas Price, IV (born October 8, 1967), known as Four Price because he is the fourth generation in his family to bear the name Walter Thomas Price,[1] is an attorney from Amarillo, Texas, who has been since November 2010 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. He holds the District 87 seat, which was vacated on August 31, 2010, by the retirement of fellow Republican Representative David Swinford of Dumas, the seat of Moore County.[2]

Background

Price graduated from Tascosa High School in Amarillo. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio. He and his wife, the former Karen Diane Mayfield (born c. 1964), have four children, Brooke, Cody, Abby, and Curry, ranging in ages (as of 2012) from twenty-one to thirteen, respectively.Price advocates the placing of government "on a diet. It doesn't tax too little -- it just spends too much." If elected, he vows to bring the "voice of the Panhandle" to state government. His familial roots in the Texas Panhandle date to 1917, when his maternal great-grandfather, Jesse Benjamin Latham, settled his young family in Carson County before relocating to Amarillo.Price practices business and probate law with the Amarillo firm Irwin, Merritt, Hogue, Price & Carthel, P.C. He previously practiced with Mullin, Hoard & Brown LLP in Amarillo and with Fulbright & Jaworski in San Antonio. Price is a director of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation, president of the Amarillo Area Bar Association, and a director of Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Foundation. He is a member and former deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of Amarillo. A former director of the Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, he is also a life member of the University of Texas Ex-Students Association. Price is an avid outdoorsman.[3]


Election history

District 87 encompasses part of Potter as well as Carson, Sherman, and Moore counties. Campaigning for the March 2 primary, Price ran what he called "grass-roots efforts, we knocked on a lot of doors and focused on what is important to the people."[4] Price defeated Victor E. Leal (born March 22, 1962), an Amarillo/Canyon businessman who owns Leal's Mexican Restaurants. Leal is an appointee of Governor Rick Perry to the Texas Economic Development Corporation and formerly served as the mayor of Muleshoe in Bailey County, where the restaurant chain was originated by his father, the late Jesse Leal.[5] In the primary, Price received 6,355 votes (55.2 percent) to Leal's 5,166 (44.8 percent).[6]

There were questions about Leal's residency, but the restauranteur carried the support of retiring Representative Swinford and former U.S. Representative Larry Combest. Leal said that the legislature needed more businesspeople like himself, instead of more lawyers like Price. However, Price retorted, "To say there's too many lawyers in the legislature is like saying there's too many doctors in a hospital."[7]

In the general election held on November 2, 2010, Price handily defeated the Democrat Abel G. Bosquez, 16,978 votes (77.3 percent) to 4,145 (18.9 percent). The remaining 3.8 percent of the ballots went to the Libertarian James Hudspeth of Dumas.[8] Bosquez (born September 13, 1958) is a technician for Pantex, who had been unopposed for his party's nomination. In the primary election, Bosquez received 881 votes, whereas the Republican primary turnout was 11,521 ballots.vPrice serves with Republican colleague Representative John T. Smithee, also of Amarillo, who visited Price's home on the night of the primary election to offer support in the general election. "We had two outstanding candidates in this race, and I think either one of them would have done a super job. And you know Four has a good temperament and he has a hard work ethic, and he's really as honest as you can be."[9]

After losing the primary, Leal endorsed Price in the fall campaign.Price also won the special election held simultaneously with the general election for the remaining weeks in Swinford's term. In September 2011, Speaker Joe Straus appointed Price to the Energy Council, a legislative body of members from eleven states, five Canadian provinces, and Venezuela. The council discusses energy policies and exchanges ideas regarding energy production.[10]

References

  1. Vote Four Price. fourprice.org. Retrieved on July 9. 2010.
  2. Enrique Rangel, "Swinford resigning from House: Representative hasn't decided on his next career move," August 31, 2010. amarillo.com. Retrieved on November 13, 2011.
  3. Four Price campaign website
  4. Kevin Welch, 'Four' the one 'Grass-roots efforts' lift Price by Leal. amarillo.com. Retrieved on July 15, 2010.
  5. Owner of Leal's chosen for state-wide EDC, May 27, 2009. connectamarillo.com. Retrieved on July 9, 2010.
  6. Republican primary election returns, March 2, 2010. sos.state.tx.us. Retrieved on March 6, 2010.
  7. Kevin Welch, 'Four' the one 'Grass-roots efforts' lift Price by Leal. amarillo.com. Retrieved on July 15, 2010.
  8. Texas general election returns, November 2, 2010. Texas Secretary of State. Retrieved on November 4, 2010.
  9. Four Price Wins Republican Primary. newschannel10.com. Retrieved on July 15, 2010.
  10. Enrique Rangel, "Speaker appoints Four Price to Energy Council," September 2, 2011. amarillo.com. Retrieved on November 14, 2011.