{"id":24701,"date":"2024-11-26T19:13:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T02:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/larry-don-suckla-drops-in-to-county-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:59:19","slug":"larry-don-suckla-drops-in-to-county-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/larry-don-suckla-drops-in-to-county-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Don Suckla drops in to county meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a0f73991-3f92-59b0-82e5-6b448882b1c2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1253\" alt=\"The newly elected representative of HD 58, Larry Don Suckla, addressed the Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners at their Nov. 26 meeting. (Cameryn Cass\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The newly elected representative of HD 58, Larry Don Suckla, addressed the Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners at their Nov. 26 meeting. (Cameryn Cass\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Larry Don Suckla, the newly elected state representative for District 58 and former Montezuma County commissioner, opened the public comment portion of the Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to come to the first Board of Commissioner\u2019s meeting in the county that I\u2019m from as the new HD elect 58 rep,\u201d Suckla said.<\/p>\n<p>Suckla ran against Kathleen Curry for the seat, and secured 75% of the vote in Montezuma County. Statewide, Suckla won with nearly 55% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey gave me my own office up there at the Capitol, and I wanted to extend a welcome to anybody \u2013 the three commissioners, staff, as well as the people of Montezuma County,\u201d said Suckla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you need an office, I want you to use that office like it\u2019s your own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also gave me my own lawyer,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat\u2019s interesting about that, is that the lawyer picks the reps, and the reps don\u2019t pick the lawyer,\u201d Suckla said.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer that chose him, Suckla said, has a wife who\u2019s from Dove Creek, so \u201che has a vested interest in our county.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe seat, HD 58, is your seat, it\u2019s not my seat. I\u2019m just your microphone,\u201d he said. \u201cSo if there\u2019s anything you guys need me to do up at the state, let me know, and I\u2019ll see what I can get done for you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The seat, HD 58, is your seat, it\u2019s not my seat,\u2019 Suckla says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,60,109,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-24701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-county-commissioner","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78642,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701\/revisions\/78642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24701"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}