{"id":68094,"date":"2017-02-13T23:18:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T06:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/coloradans-want-gardner-to-hold-in-state-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T06:18:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T06:18:54","slug":"coloradans-want-gardner-to-hold-in-state-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/coloradans-want-gardner-to-hold-in-state-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Coloradans want Gardner to hold in-state town hall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=61f25322-c0d8-4754-af5b-39beac0e0213&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Emily Thompson, right, hands Sen. Cory Gardner\u2019s Durango representative, Ann McCoy Harold, left, a petition with more than 15,000 signatures gathered from across the state asking for an in-state town hall meeting, as well as a Valentine\u2019s Day inspired \u201cMake a date with Colorado\u201d sign.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Emily Thompson, right, hands Sen. Cory Gardner\u2019s Durango representative, Ann McCoy Harold, left, a petition with more than 15,000 signatures gathered from across the state asking for an in-state town hall meeting, as well as a Valentine\u2019s Day inspired \u201cMake a date with Colorado\u201d sign.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jonathan Romeo\/Durango Herald\/<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A handful of constituents in Southwest Colorado on Monday delivered more than 15,000-combined petition signatures to Sen. Cory Gardner\u2019s Durango office demanding he schedule in-state town hall meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was a statewide effort as some Colorado residents claim Gardner has been unresponsive to their concerns with recent issues regarding the Trump administration\u2019s nominees, executive orders and policies.<\/p>\n<p>Ann McCoy Harold, Gardner\u2019s Durango representative, said the Republican senator has been inundated with thousands of calls and emails from in- and out-of-state citizens. His offices across the state and Washington D.C. have been adding phone lines to respond to the influx.<\/p>\n<p>Those in attendance on Monday asked McCoy Harold to contact Gardner\u2019s representatives in Washington D.C. with the hopes of scheduling a public meeting during the upcoming congressional recess.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S.W. Colorado constituents submit petition with more than 15,000 signatures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,265,24],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-politics","tag-u-s-sen-cory-gardner"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68094","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=68094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68094"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}