At Durango forum, GOP candidates field rotating questions submitted from across Colorado
By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice
Instead of posing the same question to an entire panel and allowing candidates to respond in sequence, organizers of the Feb. 13 Republican candidate forum in Durango tried something different.
For the most part, candidates received different questions in turn.
There wasn’t much room to sit back and think through an answer while someone else talked. Once your name was called, it was your turn.
VFW Post 4031 hosted the event, with RMV, Southwest Republican Women and the La Plata County Republican Central Committee working together to put it on. Clark Craig emceed the evening, and local GOP members Lisa Zimmerman and Amber Morris helped organize it.
JJ McKinzie joined the Secretary of State panel shortly before t...

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