FWIW, Sonny Sardo is an excellent choice to replace Drier.
Sardo is an ex-Marine, pro sovereignty candidate that has been supporting good conservatives for as long as I have known him.
He's an long time Republican who still remembers what the party should be standing for.
They were quite a group...moved in, complete with something like a dozen Sardo kids and before long had a lock on the auto upholstery biz for the area.