Carole Murray is a former legislator in the
U.S. state
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of
Colorado
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. Elected to the
Colorado House of Representatives
The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Colorado. The House is composed of 65 members from an equal number of constituent districts, with each distri ...
as a
Republican in 2008, Murray represented House District 45, which encompassed
Teller County and southern
Douglas County, Colorado
Douglas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 357,978. The county is named in honor of U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The county seat is Castle Rock.
Douglas County is pa ...
.
Legislative career
2008 election
Carole Murray defeated Mark Sievers in the contested Republican primary in August, taking 63 percent of votes cast.
Murray faced Democrat Holly Gorman, whose candidacy was endorsed by the ''
Denver Post
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'', in the November 2008 general election.
[
] Murray, however, won the election with 67 percent of the popular vote.
2009 legislative session
For the 2009 legislative session, Murray was named to seats on the House Education Committee and the House State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee, where she was the ranking Republican member.
[
]
Murray sponsored legislation to curtail
sexting
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by extending child pornography and luring laws to apply to activity over cell phones.
Murray also introduced a bill to allow counties to conduct
primary election
Primary elections or primaries are elections held to determine which candidates will run in an upcoming general election. In a partisan primary, a political party selects a candidate. Depending on the state and/or party, there may be an "open pr ...
s via
mail ballots.
2010 legislative session
2010 election
2011 legislative session
2012 legislative session
2012 election
In the
2012 General Election, Representative Murray faced Democratic challenger
Tony Stoughton. Murray was reelected by a wide margin of 67% to 29%.
References
External links
Campaign website
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Living people
Republican Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Colorado
21st-century American women politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century members of the Colorado General Assembly