Moses Lake Chamber to hold candidate forum Wednesday
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Candidates for Moses Lake public offices give their views at a forum held in July ahead of the primary election. Another forum will take place Wednesday for the candidates who will face off in the general election Nov. 7.
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Joel Martin has been with the Columbia Basin Herald for more than 25 years in a variety of roles and is the most-tenured employee in the building. Martin is a married father of eight and enjoys spending time with his children and his wife, Christina. He is passionate about the paper’s mission of informing the people of the Columbia Basin because he knows it is important to record the history of the communities the publication serves. | October 23, 2023 5:34 PM
MOSES LAKE — Candidates for Moses Lake elected offices will have a chance to be heard Wednesday at a forum sponsored by the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce, KWIQ and the Columbia Basin Herald. The forum will run from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Moses Lake Civic Center, 401 S. Balsam.
Candidates for the Moses Lake School Board, Grant County Hospital District No. 1 and the Moses Lake City Council were invited, according to chamber Director Debbie Doran-Martinez. As of Monday afternoon, all but one candidate had responded that they would be present. Alan Heroux will be the moderator.
“We will do it in two phases,” Doran-Martinez said. “We'll have all of the school board candidates get up the first hour, and then we'll have the city council races and the hospital races come up the second hour.”
Each candidate will have two minutes to deliver their opening remarks, following which they’ll be given questions to answer one by one. Each pair of candidates will have a unique question, Doran-Martinez said, so candidates who answer later don’t gain an advantage by having more time to formulate a response. The order in which candidates speak will be rotated, so both candidates have an opportunity to go first.
The questions have been kept carefully under wraps at the chamber office, Doran-Martinez said.
“We want honesty,” she said. “We don't want it to be a rehearsed presentation; we want answers, so we really know how (they) feel.”
Joel Martin may be reached at [email protected].
Editor’s Note: While the Columbia Basin Herald will livestream the event via our Facebook channel, we strongly encourage anyone who can to attend in-person to speak with candidates after the event.
Candidates:
Moses Lake School Board, Director Pos. 1: Amy L. Breitenstein, Shannon Hintz
Moses Lake School Board, Director Pos. 3: Susan Freeman, Carla Mayberry Urias
Grant County Hospital District No. 1, Commissioner Pos. 3: Elliott DeLong, Katherine Christian
Grant County Hospital District No. 1, Commissioner At Large: Dale Paris, Joseph Akers
Moses Lake City Council Pos. 6: Victor Lombardi, Jeremy Nolan
Moses Lake City Council Pos. 7: Elisia “Lisa” Dalluge Eklund, David Skaug
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