TX: Libertarian Steps Up to Challenge Republican Incumbent

From Abilene's Reporter News:

She has never lost an election. He has never won. On Nov. 2, state Rep. Susan King, the two-term Republican representative for District 71, will face Libertarian Fred Jones, a political activist who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2002 and 2006 and for a Texas House seat in 2004.

No Democrats entered the race this year because King has been so popular at the polls, a local Democratic official said. In fact, Democrats haven’t fought for the seat since it was up for grabs in 2006 following the retirement of then-Rep. Bob Hunter. King won the seat that year, besting three other Republicans, a Democrat and a Libertarian. Since then, she has drawn no opponent in two Republican primaries, and she dominated a general election against a Libertarian candidate in 2008 with 88 percent of the vote.