A convention to nominate a candidate to fill the Ninth District seat in the Kansas House of Representatives will occur the afternoon of Sept. 29 in Allen County Courthouse’s assembly room.
Sixty precinct men and women, including 34 from Allen County, will decide the nominee, whose name then will be forwarded to Gov. Sam Brownback who will make the appointment.
The seat opened when Ed Bideau, elected in 2012, died Sept. 6. Bideau also served in the House from 1985-88. He was an attorney in Chanute and had been Neosho County attorney.
Several people have indicated interest in succeeding Bideau through appointment, including Iolans Judy Brigham and Bud Sifers, who faced off against Bideau in the August 2012 Republican primary. He was unopposed in the general election.
At the nominating convention, those interested in being nominated will have opportunities to make cases for themselves before the precinct representatives.
The appointee will serve until a full-term representative is elected in the November 2014 general election.
Many of the precinct representatives who will decide the nomination were elected in 2012, although several have been appointed to fill vacancies created when no one sought election.
House seat will be filled
