Known as “Pepe” to people in House District 43, state Rep. Jose Manuel Lozano figures voters pretty well know what he’s about. 

Familiarity and the passage of time have made the campaign trail less hostile than it was in 2012, he said, when Lozano switched parties and ran as a Republican after being elected as a Democrat in 2010.

“I feel like there is less divisiveness in my race,” Lozano, 34, said. “Two years ago the party switch was still too fresh.”

But while Lozano is talking with voters about the state’s energy boom and job creation, his ...

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