LD23 Republican Committee Announcement
Former
Arizona Rep. David Burnell Smith has died at age 73.
House
Speaker Andy Tobin said Monday his staff received confirmation that Smith died
Friday of what he called natural causes.
Smith
stepped down from the Legislature in 2006.
Smith
vowed to return and made at least two efforts to regain his Scottsdale-based
seat.
He lost a three-way Republican primary in Legislative District 15 in
August.
His
campaign biography says Smith was born in Charleston, W.Va., and came to Arizona
in 1982 with his wife Rita.
He was a lawyer by profession.
Tobin
says Smith loved being in the Legislature and pushed for lawsuit reform
legislation even though many in his profession opposed it.
Source:
Arizona Republic
LD23
Republicans extend our deepest sympathy to his family and friends.
