{"id":24955,"date":"2024-11-05T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-commissioner-kent-lindsay-re-elected\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:04:55","slug":"montezuma-county-commissioner-kent-lindsay-re-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-commissioner-kent-lindsay-re-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma County Commissioner Kent Lindsay re-elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=09a0d489-6d80-4595-baec-24ba33223211&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"709\" alt=\"Kent Lindsay sits in his cafe after discussing his decision to run for Montezuma County commissioner, District 2 in 2020. He won the seat and ran unopposed in the general election.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Kent Lindsay sits in his cafe after discussing his decision to run for Montezuma County commissioner, District 2 in 2020. He won the seat and ran unopposed in the general election.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kent Lindsay secured another four-year term as Montezuma County Commissioner in Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>He got 100% of votes in the county for the seat, having run uncontested.<\/p>\n<p>This will be his second, four-year term in a row after getting elected in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay said his priority is to \u201cget the federal government to pay its tax bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey owe us about $80 million,\u201d Lindsay said.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay first became county commissioner in 1997 and served \u2018til 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his role as county commissioner, he serves on the Empire Electric Association board, and used to own the Rio Grande Caf\u00e9 on Main Street for 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uncontested in District 2, representing Cortez <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-24955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955","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=24955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78743,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions\/78743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}