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There is now a third-party candidate taking a run at the office being vacated by Coconino County Attorney Dave Rozema.

Libertarian Flagstaff attorney Jonathan Apirion filed paperwork with the Coconino County Recorder’s Office announcing his intention to run in April. He has also launched the website apirion.org to explain his background and his political views, which he said align with the platform of the national Libertarian Party.

“An important aspect of being a Libertarian or Libertarian policy is creating the framework and the circumstances that lead people to make good decisions for themselves,” Apirion said. “Policies trying to prohibit people from making bad decisions do not achieve that as well as giving people freedom to make their own choices.”

One of his primary goals as county attorney, he said, would be enforcing the law while is shifting some resources away from the prosecution of crimes that he believes represent bad policy, such as the criminalization of drug use when no other crime has been committed.