The Modesto Bee’s 2020 election candidate forum videos

The Bee takes its role as a provider of local journalism seriously, and that’s why we focus so much on elections.

We have an important one coming in November, and for The Bee, it’s more about what’s happening here in Stanislaus County than the noise coming from Washington.

We’ve got the county covered when it comes to local elections, which will go more to determining life in and around Stanislaus County than The Beltway.

There are many races in and around Stanislaus County, and we’ve got them covered. In addition to upcoming stories, The Bee also has been interviewing candidates in several races via Zoom forums.

Below are links to those we are holding or will hold in September to help you decide who should hold offices.

The election is Nov. 3. Ballots will go out the first week of October.

Here’s a list of the debates, along with links to previous Zoom debates:

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. 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 – U.S. Congressional District 10: Josh Harder*

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 15, 2020 at 7:43 AM.