{"id":37804,"date":"2022-10-17T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T04:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/candidates-for-house-districts-58-and-59-to-attend-forum-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:40:10","slug":"candidates-for-house-districts-58-and-59-to-attend-forum-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/candidates-for-house-districts-58-and-59-to-attend-forum-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates for House Districts 58 and 59 to attend forum in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b76cc2e9-524b-5eda-8244-1cf2662d085d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1551\" height=\"1094\" alt=\"Barbara McLachlan and Shelli Shaw\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Barbara McLachlan and Shelli Shaw<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The San Juan Basin Farm Bureau will hold a candidate forum featuring candidates running for Colorado House Districts 58 and 59 representing Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The forum takes place Oct. 25 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Montezuma County Annex, 107 N. Chestnut St. in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates for House District 59 are incumbent Democrat Barbara McLachlan, and Republican challenger Shelli Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates for House District 58 are incumbent Republican Marc Catlin and Democrat challenger Kevin Kuns.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=605a4be6-56db-5bcd-9e3b-3739da1ac3b9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"390\" alt=\"Marc Catlin and Kevin Kuns\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Marc Catlin and Kevin Kuns<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>San Juan Basin Farm Bureau Vice President Danny Wilkin will be the moderator.<\/p>\n<p>He said candidates will give three-minute opening statements, then take questions directly from audience members.<\/p>\n<p>The 58th District represents the areas of Montrose, Telluride, Cortez, Dolores, Towaoc, Dove Creek and Mancos.<\/p>\n<p>The 59th District represents the areas of Durango, Bayfield, Pagosa Springs, Lake City, Ouray and Ridgway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 25 event sponsored by San Juan Basin Farm Bureau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,308,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-37804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-local-elections","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37804","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=37804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83792,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37804\/revisions\/83792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37804"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=37804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}