Rick Pate, a GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, has a coalition of business leaders supporting him, his campaign announced Monday. “The business community needs a doer, not a talker serving as lieutenant governor, and Rick Pate is the only candidate who has signed the front of a paycheck so others can sign the back,” said Ken Upchurch, chairman and CEO of W.K. Upchurch Construction and member of Business Partners for Rick Pate. Pate is one of five Republicans running to replace current Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth, who is term limited, in 2026. Pate is the current state agriculture commissioner and previously owned for 38 years a landscape design, construction, and irrigation business. “Rick Pate has demonstrated the grit and determination that is required to start and build a succe

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