January 19, 2006 09:00 AM UTC

Democrat Announces for Senate District 5, Opens Up CU Regent Seat

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• by: Colorado Pols

From The Aspen Times:

Gail Sheridan Schwartz on Wednesday announced her plans to challenge incumbent Sen. Lewis H. Entz, a Republican farmer from the San Luis Valley, to represent Senate District 5. The district comprises 11 counties, from Delta County in the west to Saguache County in the east, and from the northern Pitkin County line to the southern border of Colorado.

Schwartz, 56, a Democrat on the University of Colorado Board of Regents, scored a political upset by unseating a Republican incumbent to win the CU regents seat in 2000.

She made her decision to seek the Senate seat recently, after Colorado Rep. Kathleen Curry, D-Gunnison, whose District 61 also includes Pitkin County, decided against running for Senate…

…Schwartz said she will not be seeking re-election to the board of regents.