By the end of the filing period Wednesday, 14 people had filed for the 2nd Congressional District Republican caucuses on Saturday, up from 10 on Monday.
The last four filings were Dallas Barkman, Goshen; Mick Hoeflinger, Elkhart; Daniel Koors, North Manchester; and Marvin Layne, North Liberty.
Those four joined the previous announced candidates of Terry Harper III, Granger; Scott Huffman, Plymouth; Scott Wise, Columbia City; Michael Nidiffer, Granger; Curt Nisly, Milford; Curtis Hill Jr., Elkhart; Michael Hogberg, Lakeville; Tiernan Kane, South Bend; Christy Stutzman, Middlebury; and Rudolph Yakym III, Granger.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb called for a special election last week to coincide with the November general election after the death of District 2 U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski.
Walorski, 58, Elkhart, was one of four people killed Aug. 3 in a two-vehicle accident on Ind. 19, south of Ind. 119. The other three who lost their lives in the crash were Walorski’s district director, Zachery Potts, 27, Mishawaka; her communications director, Emma Thomson, 28, Washington, D.C.; and the driver of the other vehicle, Edith Schmucker, 56, Nappanee.
The Republican caucuses to fill the remainder of Walorski’s current term in the old District 2 and to put a Republican candidate on the November ballot for the 2023-24 term for the new District 2 will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Grissom Middle School, 13881 Kern Road, Mishawaka.
Yakym is endorsed by Walorski’s husband, Dean Swihart.
