{"id":42499,"date":"2022-01-27T22:15:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-republicans-to-select-new-commissioner-thursday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:07:39","slug":"montezuma-county-republicans-to-select-new-commissioner-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-republicans-to-select-new-commissioner-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma County Republicans to select new commissioner Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13e4184f-5d6e-4199-9259-dceb6649866a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Journal file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma County Republican Central Committee will meet Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Board of County Commissioners meeting room to vote for a successor to the late Commissioner Joel Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson, whose death after a COVID-related illness rocked the community, was a Republican representing District 3 in Mancos. He was elected in November to a four-year commissioner term that began in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Under Colorado law, the Republican committee is responsible for appointing a successor from the Mancos district.<\/p>\n<p>All 32 members of the vacancy committee may vote, although all may not be in attendance Thursday, said Allen Maez, chairman of the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Nine candidates applied for the position. They will briefly introduce themselves before being called into the meeting one by one to answer the same question from the committee.<\/p>\n<p>They may not join non-voters until after they have spoken, so their answers are not influenced by other candidates\u2019 answers, Maez said.<\/p>\n<p>The committee then will vote privately, and all non-voters will be asked to leave the chamber, Maez said.<\/p>\n<p>A majority consensus must be reached, which might require more than one vote, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a serious decision we\u2019re making,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Maez said the committee\u2019s main objective is to respect the voters who chose Stevenson and to meet the needs of the county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do appreciate those that stepped up to put their name in,\u201d Maez said.<\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s deadline to name a successor is Friday. If the deadline is not met, the decision would fall to the Colorado governor.<\/p>\n<p>The appointee will serve until the next general election in November.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial for Stevenson has been scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds Indoor Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Committee must select Joel Stevenson\u2019s successor by Friday <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,167,60,109,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-42499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-local-news-lead","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\/42499","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=42499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85360,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42499\/revisions\/85360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42499"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=42499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}