Becker makes hard decision to not run for re-election

    Rep. Jon Becker, a Fort Morgan Republican, announced Monday, Feb. 5, that he will forego a bid for his fourth and final term in the Colorado House, just three weeks after deciding to mount a re-election campaign. He intends instead to run for the board of county commissioners for Morgan County, a seat he held once before.
    Becker has served in the Colorado House since winning the House District 65 seat in northeastern Colorado in 2010. He sat out the 2012-13 session after redistricting put him in the same House district as then-Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling. When Sonnenberg ran for the Senate in 2014, Becker won his second term in the House and again in 2016.
    Becker had been somewhat ambivalent about a run for a fourth and final term. His eldest son, Grant, is is entering his senior year of high school in the fall, and his younger son, J.T., will be a junior. Becker said he hoped to spend time with his sons during those critical final two years of high school and as they make their way toward college.
    But a recent car accident made Becker and his family reconsider their options. J.T. was involved in a car accident (he wasn’t the driver), and that prompted Becker to ask his family about the future.
    That future will keep him closer to home as he seeks a seat on the Morgan County Board of County Commissioners in the fall.
 

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