{"id":61759,"date":"2014-03-18T22:49:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T04:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/independent-enters-county-clerk-race\/"},"modified":"2014-03-19T04:49:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T04:49:42","slug":"independent-enters-county-clerk-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/independent-enters-county-clerk-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent enters county clerk race"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bcec2aba-4881-4742-8335-b4cc7483736d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"430\" height=\"620\" alt=\"Marquez\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Marquez<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am seeking the office as an independent candidate,\u201d Marquez said. \u201cI have extensive experience in a wide range of areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marquez said she started her career at First National Bank. For more than three decades, she worked at the bank in bookkeeping, auditing, compliance, payroll and assistant cashier. Most recently, Marquez has worked for Fraley and Co. in customer service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy experience would bring new ideas to the office,\u201d Marquez said. \u201cI would strive to create an office that is friendly, courteous and professional by utilizing my years of experience with the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be my honor and privilege to serve as your next county clerk and recorder,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Marquez graduated from Montezuma-Cortez High School. A Lewis resident, she and her husband of 36 years have two children and five grandchildren, with another on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Percell, a Republican candidate, is also campaigning for Montezuma County clerk and recorder.<\/p>\n<p>Current clerk and recorder Carol Tullis is relinquishing the post because of term limits. The clerk and recorder oversees motor vehicle registrations, elections, marriage licenses, birth and death records and land deeds, among other records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:tbaker@cortezjournal.com\">tbaker@cortezjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marquezdu1-i-syn \u201cI am seeking the office as an independent candidate,\u201d Marquez said. \u201cI have extensive experience in a wide range of areas.\u201d Marquez said she started her career at First National Bank. For more than three decades, she worked at the bank in bookkeeping, auditing, compliance, payroll and assistant cashier. Most recently, Marquez has worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,308,237,826],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-61759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-local-elections","tag-montezuma-county-government","tag-political-campaigns"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61759","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=61759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61759"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=61759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}