{"id":2453771,"date":"2020-01-27T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=319689"},"modified":"2020-01-27T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T09:45:00","slug":"field-potentially-getting-crowded-in-basalt-mayor-council-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/field-potentially-getting-crowded-in-basalt-mayor-council-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Field potentially getting crowded in Basalt mayor, council races"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The candidate field for the Basalt mayor race and three council seats will potentially be crowded in the April 7 election as more people have picked up petitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">People who have recently picked up nomination petitions for the council race are Elyse Hottel, Kirk Schindler and Chris Touchette. Those who previously picked up petitions are incumbent Jennifer Riffle as well as Glenn Drummond, Tiffany Haddad and David Knight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the mayor\u2019s race, Bill Kane, Bill Infante and Rob Leavitt have picked up petitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Candidacy isn\u2019t official until a person returns their nomination petition. Town Clerk Pam Schilling said some people who picked up petitions made it clear they hadn\u2019t made up their mind yet about running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">So far only Kane has returned his petition in the mayor\u2019s race while Haddad, Knight and Riffle have returned their petitions in the council race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Nomination petitions must be turned in the town clerk\u2019s office by 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27. They must have the signatures of 25 qualified electors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The terms are for four years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/field-potentially-getting-crowded-in-basalt-mayor-council-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candidate field for the Basalt mayor race and three council seats will potentially be crowded in the April 7 election as more people have picked up petitions. People who have recently picked up nomination petitions for the council race are Elyse Hottel, Kirk Schindler and Chris Touchette. Those who previously picked up petitions are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 18:45:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}