Later Election Results
Price entered the Texas State Senate as a result of a special election held in 1977 to fill the District 31 seat vacated by the Democrat Max Sherman, who resigned to become the president of West Texas A&M University in Canyon in Randall County. Price used the slogan "Price is Right for Texas." He held the seat for a partial term, 1978 to 1980. In the 1979 legislative session, Price along with two Republicans from Fort Worth, Betty Andujar and Bob Ware, were included among the "Ten Worst Legislators" by Texas Monthly magazine.
In 1988, when Republican U.S. Representative Beau Boulter of Amarillo ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate against the Democrat Lloyd Bentsen of Houston, Price entered the primary to succeed Boulter but lost the GOP nomination to Larry S. Milner, a businessman from Amarillo and a 1967 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. The seat nevertheless went to a Democrat in the fall, State Senator Bill Sarpalius, who defeated Milner, 52.5 to 47.5 percent. Sarpalius had won the state senate seat that Price vacated in 1980 and served in that capacity until he was elected to the U.S. House in 1988.
Price sought the GOP congressional nomination again in 1990, but he lost to Richard A. Waterfield, a state representative from Canadian in Hemphill County, known for his advocacy of meal-delivery programs for the elderly and disabled. Price ran again in 1992 but was defeated in the primary by Boulter. After winning their subsequent nominations, both Waterfield and Boulter were subsequently defeated by Sarpalius in the general election.
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