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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 at law (United States)|attorney]] from [[Amarillo, Texas|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, Texas|Dumas]] who did not seek reelection.
==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, Texas|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, Texas|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/>
==Election history==
District 87 encompasses part of [[Potter County, Texas|Potter]] as well as Carson, [[Sherman County, Texas|Sherman]], and [[Moore County, Texas|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, Texas|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, Texas|Muleshoe]] in [[Bailey County, Texas|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/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Texas Republicans]]
==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, Texas|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, Texas|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/>
==Election history==
District 87 encompasses part of [[Potter County, Texas|Potter]] as well as Carson, [[Sherman County, Texas|Sherman]], and [[Moore County, Texas|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, Texas|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, Texas|Muleshoe]] in [[Bailey County, Texas|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/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Texas Republicans]]