{"id":51154,"date":"2020-10-06T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-candidates-forum-is-oct-6\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:54:51","slug":"montezuma-county-candidates-forum-is-oct-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-candidates-forum-is-oct-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma County candidates forum is Oct. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=53ce2438-124d-45dd-99b2-e08315fe3862&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1333\" height=\"799\" alt=\"Voters can meet the candidates at a candidates forum Oct. 6.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Voters can meet the candidates at a candidates forum Oct. 6.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All the candidates representing Montezuma County have been invited, said organizer Dorothy Porter, even if they are running unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>Invitees include District 3 commissioner candidates Samulski and Stevenson and District 2 commissioner candidate Kent Lindsay, who is unopposed; 22nd Judicial District Attorney candidate Republican Matt Margeson, unopposed; Colorado House of Representatives District 58 candidates Democrat Seth Cagin and Republican Marc Catlin; U.S. Senate candidates Republican Cory Gardner and Democrat John Hickenlooper; and District 3 U.S. Congress candidates Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush and Republican Lauren Opal Boebert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope they all show,\u201d said Porter. \u201cWe have had a good response from the candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The format will be all audience questions with a moderator, she said. The idea is to have a back-and-forth discussion between the candidates and citizens on local issues and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only requirement is that the conversation and questions be polite and civil,\u201d Porter said. For more information, call 970-565-8640.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>can meet the candidates at a candidates forum Oct. 6.The Journal file All the candidates representing Montezuma County have been invited, said organizer Dorothy Porter, even if they are running unopposed. Invitees include District 3 commissioner candidates Samulski and Stevenson and District 2 commissioner candidate Kent Lindsay, who is unopposed; 22nd Judicial District Attorney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,28,308,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","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\/51154","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=51154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87911,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51154\/revisions\/87911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51154"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}