Jessica Cuevas
With the primary run-off elections around the corner, the Walker County Republican Party hosted a Candidate Forum for residents on May 10th at the H.E.A.R.T.S. Veteran Museum of Texas, allowing the residents of Walker County to hear from the candidates one last time. And, if residents weren’t able to attend in person, the Huntsville Item lived streamed it so that almost everyone could be informed.
LEAP Ambassadors Morgan, Heather Erin, and I helped with check-in, while candidates also manned tables highlighting their candidacies. Ms. Mckenzie introduced things.
Despite being the quietest of the group–or, in fact, any group–I was asked by Ms. Mckenzie to say the pledges.
The questions for the forum were submitted by members of the community, out of which only seven were selected by a committee for each office: County Judge and District 12 State Representative.
Judge Tracy Sorensen was the moderator for both, which was nice, because we always enjoy the opportunity to see and spend time with her. In fact, she recently spoke at our Pre-Law Society and hooded our graduating members.
In this forum, each candidate had two minutes to respond to the questions. These questions varied from state and county-specific issues, depending on the race, to why they thought they were the best candidate for the position they were running for which they had three minutes to answer.
Morgan assisted in keeping time and informing the candidates how much time they had left.
The first to go were the candidates for state representative of District 12, Kyle Kacal and Ben Bius, followed by Colt Christian and a representative for Mr. Frank Olivares (Olivares was ill not able to attend personally)
Election day is on May 24th, however, why wait? Early voting opened yesterday, May 16th, and closes on Friday, May 20th. Be sure to get your vote in!
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