Joe Neguse (Courtesy Photo) Questions over fracking, gun control, campaign finance and President Donald Trump administration's presence in both local and national politics dominated Monday night's forum for Colorado's 2nd Congressional District candidates. More than 100 prospective voters gathered in a conference room at the Millennium Harvest Hotel for the forum hosted by the Boulder Valley Rotary Club. In attendance were the five candidates in the race to replace Boulder Democrat Jared Polis, who is running for governor. It is first time the entire slate of candidates shared a stage together in this current election cycle.
Mark Williams (Courtesy Photo) The candidates — Democrat Joe Neguse, Boulder Democrat Mark Williams, Boulder Independent Nick Thomas, Republican Peter Yu and Libertarian Roger Barris — fielded multiple questions from the audience and moderators Kit Hollingshead and Karl Kurtz during the two-hour session. Perhaps at the forefront of the minds of the candidates and voters who attended was how, if elected, they would approach the issue of hydraulic fracking — both at the local level and across the country. Thomas, who has worked for a video production company and his family's real estate and property management business, said that fracking "would be the question of 2018, not only of the 2nd Congressional District but of the state election." Neguse, who resigned last summer from his job as executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies and is a Lafayette resident — a city in theRead more from our friends at the NRA
