Politics & Government
Former Mission Viejo Mayor Running for Governor
A past Mission Viejo mayor is running for governor of the Mount Rushmore State.
A former Mission Viejo mayor has become the first democrat to announce he is running for governor in South Dakota in 2014.
Joe Lowe served on the Mission Viejo City Council from Jan. 1993 through Dec. 1996. He was mayor in 1995. He worked as a firefighter.
Since then he moved to Rapid City, S.D. He served as the state's first wildfire chief when the department was formed in 2001. He retired from that position in Jan. 2012.
Lowe is also an avid photographer. He opened a gallery, Reflections of South Dakota, in Rapid City.
Lowe told Fox he plans to tour small towns in South Dakota to begin his campaign.
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