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* Local Republican Party leaders chose a replacement for former Rep. Ron Stephens today. O’Fallon attorney Paul Evans…
The party chairmen met Saturday at Hidden Lake Winery in Aviston and interviewed applicants for the position. Twelve people applied, and seven were interviewed. Madison County GOP chairwoman Deb Detmers said Evans was the unanimous choice of the chairmen.
“Paul gave a great presentation…a great deal of passion,” Detmers said.
She said he spoke of how doctors suggested aborting his daughter, who was born with spina bifida and is now attending Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
“That’s what really made him the person he is today,” Detmers said. She described him as “absolutely a strong conservative — fiscally and socially.”
Evans said his daughter will be a sophomore but now, after many surgeries, is fully independent, despite doctors’ early predictions that she’d never smile, swallow or speak on her own. He said one of the reasons he wants to be a legislator is because he’s familiar with government bureacracies that parents of special-needs children have to deal with.
Evans lives in the “overlap” area that straddles Stephens’ current district and a new, vacant district.
posted by Rich Miller
Saturday, Aug 13, 11 @ 5:18 pm
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