{"id":51592,"date":"2020-09-15T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T00:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-candidate-forums-coming-up-in-montezuma-county\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:56:33","slug":"two-candidate-forums-coming-up-in-montezuma-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-candidate-forums-coming-up-in-montezuma-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Two candidate forums coming up in Montezuma County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=49217f91-22fe-46fe-8925-19fc93df8212&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Candidate forums will help voters decide on candidates in the Nov. 3 election.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Candidate forums will help voters decide on candidates in the Nov. 3 election.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Two candidate forums are on the horizon in Montezuma County.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 23 at 7 p.m., the Montezuma League of Women Voters will host an online forum for Montezuma County Commissioner District 3 candidates. The candidates are unaffiliated Rebecca Samulski and Republican Joel Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p>The weblink to access the forum will be posted soon on the League of Women\u2019s Voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lwvmontezuma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The District 3 race is the only contested race in the county, so only those candidates were invited, said Karen Sheek, president of the Colorado Chapter of the League of Women Voters.<\/p>\n<p>Judy Schuenemeyer will be the moderator.<\/p>\n<p>She will ask each candidate a series of nonpartisan questions related to the duties of serving as a commissioner. Sheek said suggested audience questions may be submitted on the League of Women voters webpage or Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. the San Juan Basin Farm Bureau will host a Meet the Candidates Night at the Montezuma County commissioners room.<\/p>\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.<\/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>Women Voters, Farm Bureau host events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51592","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=51592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87978,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51592\/revisions\/87978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51592"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}