GOP candidate picked to fill vacant Kansas House seat

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The House of Representatives chamber of the Kansas Statehouse is pictured July 23, 2014 in Topeka.

Wichita — A Republican candidate who survived a legal challenge to his right to run for the Kansas House has been appointed to fill a short-term vacancy in the same seat.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Republican activists in the 85th District on Saturday chose businessman Michael Capps to replace former state Rep. Chuck Weber. The appointment runs until January, the end of the two-year term Weber won in 2016.

Weber left the Legislature earlier this month to become executive director of the Kansas Catholic Conference.

Capps is the only Republican seeking the seat. The lone Democrat is Monica Marks.

Democrats have alleged that Capps does not live at the address he listed in filing to run for the House seat but the all-Republican State Objections Board rejected their challenge in June.

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