Hear the candidates: Turlock City Council hopefuls discuss the issues
Five candidates running for two Turlock City Council seats discussed the issues Thursday night in the Zoom call with the Modesto Bee’s Editorial Board.
Vying for seats are Gil Esquer, Rebecka Monez and Ruben Wegner in District 2 and Pam Franco and Bob Puffer in District 4.
They touched on issues regarding the city’s Measure A sales tax that will be on the November ballot, fixing roads and the Westside Revitalization plan, among other topics.
The forum was the 10th conducted by The Bee’s Editorial Board in a continuing series that will last throughout the month of September ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.
Ballots will go out the first week of October.
Here’s a list of the debates, along with links to previous Zoom debates (asterisk denotes incumbent):
Monday, Aug. 31 – Stanislaus County supervisor, District 1: Buck Condit and Bill Zoslocki
Tuesday, Sept. 1 –Senate District 5: Susan Talamantes Eggman (D) and Jim Ridenour (R)
Thursday, Sept. 3 – Stanislaus County supervisor, District 5: Channce Condit and Tom Hallinan
Sept. 8 – Ceres mayor: Brett Durossette and Javier Lopez
Sept. 9 – Modesto City Council, District 1: Rosa Escutia-Braaton, Jennifer Hidalgo and Amin Vohra.
Sept. 10 – Modesto City Council, District 3: Jim Applegate, Janice Keating and Chris Ricci.
Sept. 15 – Modesto Irrigation District, Division 1: Larry Byrd* and Suzy Powell Roos.
Sept. 16 – Modesto City Council, District 6: Jessica Gonzalez, Kelsten Obert, Hunter Sauls and David Wright.
Sept. 17 – South Modesto Partnerships/Modesto Bee: Modesto mayoral and Stanislaus Board of Supervisors District 5
Sept. 23 – Modesto mayor: Kristi Ah You, Ted Brandvold*, Rick Countryman, Naramsen Goriel, Doug Ridenour, Erin Sommer Tenorio and Sue Zwahlen.
Sept. 24 – Turlock City Council: Gil Esquer*, Rebecka Monez and Ruben Wegner for District 2, and Pam Franco and Robert Puffer for District 4.
Sept. 30 – Patterson mayor: Dennis McCord, David Keller and Mark Miles.
Also on Sept. 30 we will post a video with Democratic U.S. Rep. Josh Harder of the 10th Congressional District in similar interview format but without challenger Republican Ted Howze, who declined to participate.
This story was originally published September 25, 2020 at 6:18 AM.
