{"id":33214,"date":"2023-06-28T23:10:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T05:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-mayor-nate-duckett-announces-reelection-bid\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:07:10","slug":"farmington-mayor-nate-duckett-announces-reelection-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-mayor-nate-duckett-announces-reelection-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmington Mayor Nate Duckett announces reelection bid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8f64a1e1-6c22-561a-9988-41322afbe3b3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2100\" alt=\"Farmington Mayor Nate Duckett was the guest speaker at San Juan College\u2019s graduation ceremony. (Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Farmington Mayor Nate Duckett was the guest speaker at San Juan College\u2019s graduation ceremony. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Farmington Mayor Nate Duckett announced his reelection campaign Wednesday, using the media services of former city of Farmington spokesperson Georgette Allen.<\/p>\n<p>Allen sent emails to various media outlets directing people to Duckett\u2019s campaign website, reelectduckett.com, which highlights many city projects in which Duckett was involved.<\/p>\n<p>Duckett was elected mayor in 2018, after serving on the Farmington City Council from 2014 to 2018. He is running on the platform of \u201cProven Leadership,\u201d saying in the news release \u201chis leadership has helped position Farmington as a destination for individuals, families and retirees seeking a better quality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duckett said he has supported a number of city initiatives that moved Farmington forward in the areas of diversifying the economy, increasing public safety, expanding outdoor recreation opportunities, improving livability and saving and creating jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Duckett said he wants to keep the city of Farmington a \u201cservice-first organization\u201d that remains \u201cfocused on what matters most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He touted his ability to be \u201cvigilant\u201d in \u201cefforts to invest critical local tax dollars into community transformation and economic diversification that has reimagined and grown our public safety divisions, downtown, civic center, river trails, parks and lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duckett also promised to use his knowledge of business to \u201ccontinue our investment in reviving our aging public facilities while also investing in our future ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The election is Nov. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duckett will run on a platform of \u201cproven leadership\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[799,28,826,774],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-political-campaigns","tag-political-candidates"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33214","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=33214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82106,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33214\/revisions\/82106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33214"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}