Candidates trade ideas on how to pay for population

YUCCA VALLEY - The Republican Women Federated staged the first of this election cycle's Town Council candidate forums Monday night. Eight of nine candidates running are registered Republican and were, therefore, present. Only the Independent candidate, Reggie McAtee, had not been invited and was absent.President of the club Laurine Silver said the forum's goal was to &#8220give audience members the answers they need to make decisions at the polls," and went on to observe that in her club's estimation, &#8220this is an extremely important race."Several candidates, in fact, repeated this estimate in their own comments.All candidates were given two minutes for opening remarks. Following this, event chairperson Anne Sholtz asked a series of questions, giving candidates two minutes for response to each.

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