{"id":66056,"date":"2020-03-04T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T00:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lindsay-enters-race-for-county-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:33:43","slug":"lindsay-enters-race-for-county-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lindsay-enters-race-for-county-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay enters race for county commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=22e657b4-38d6-44cd-9da4-117819258538&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1442\" alt=\"Kent Lindsay sits in his cafe after discussing his decision to run for Montezuma County commissioner, District 2.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Kent Lindsay sits in his cafe after discussing his decision to run for Montezuma County commissioner, District 2.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Republican Kent Lindsay has entered the race for Montezuma County Commissioner District 2.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay served two terms as commissioner from 1997-2005. He currently serves on the Empire Electric Association board, was a volunteer firefighter, and served on the Cortez Fire Protection District board.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay has also owned and operated the Rio Grande Caf\u00e9 on Main Street Cortez for 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been involved in the community and understand the issues and challenges,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of them are the same from 20 years ago, Lindsay said. His priorities include protecting water rights and agricultural values, public safety, economic development and practical land use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take a commonsense approach to decision-making,\u201d Lindsay said. \u201cI\u2019ve got some ideas, will listen to the public and will work with the other commissioners and local towns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Working with Bureau of Land Management and National Forest are also important, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Exploring the use of a biomass plant to burn slash from the forest and provide local power is one of his ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also helps to thin out our overgrown forests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another goal would be to develop a more active economic development plan for attracting businesses to the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch is needed on what is a good fit for our area, then go out to specifically recruit that type of business,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen a business leaves, there should be an exit interview so we understand why, and what we can do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Linsday joins Republicans Allan Randolph and Danny Wilkin in the race for county commission District 2 seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>owner previously served two terms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,308,109,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-local-elections","tag-montezuma-county-commissioner","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66056","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=66056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90264,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66056\/revisions\/90264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66056"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}