{"id":2457813,"date":"2020-04-29T07:54:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=325047"},"modified":"2020-04-29T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:57:40","slug":"chris-council-launches-campaign-for-pitkin-county-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/chris-council-launches-campaign-for-pitkin-county-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Council launches campaign for Pitkin County commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"29.658127208481\">\n<p>I am excited to announce my 2020 candidacy for Pitkin County commissioner, District 4, and ask for your vote and support in the upcoming election. I believe strongly that the time has come to demand true leadership from our elected county officials. We need leaders who are informed and fully understand the issues, are representative of our community, communicate clearly and effectively with the public, offer creative ideas and are willing to act with bold decision.<\/p>\n<p>I humbly submit that I am able to help bring these qualities to our Board of County Commissioners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we look towards the future, there are numerous issues facing our community, especially our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Affordable housing, the airport expansion, skyrocketing health insurance premiums and protecting our unique environment are also at forefront.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please visit my website to learn more about me and my platform \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chris4pitkin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.chris4pitkin.com<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i> \u2014 and don\u2019t hesitate to reach out with your ideas, comments and questions at <a href=\"mailto:chris@chris4pitkin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chris@chris4pitkin.com<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thank you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chris Council&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snowmass Village&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.301724137931\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 at-4 pl-4\" readability=\"19.162045060659\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers around Aspen and Snowmass Village make the Aspen Times\u2019 work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality, locally relevant journalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. 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We need leaders who are informed and fully understand the issues, are representative [&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-2457813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 21:56:08","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\/2457813","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=2457813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457818,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457813\/revisions\/2457818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}