Climate change, the country’s divisiveness and bringing Boulder County’s progressive policies to the national level dominated the discussion at a well-attended Sunday forum for Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District candidates.
About 100 people packed into a small room at the Boulder Public Library’s Meadows Branch for the forum hosted by Our Revolution Boulder.
In attendance were four of the five candidates in the race , who is running for governor. Not present was Republican candidate Peter Yu, of Loveland.
The four candidates — Lafayette Democrat Joe Neguse, Nederland Democrat Kristopher Larsen, Boulder Democrat Mark Williams, and unaffiliated candidate Nick Thomas, of Boulder — fielded five audience questions during the hour-and-half session.
Larsen was elected as Nederland’s mayor in 2016 after previously serving on the Board of Trustees. A planetary scientist at the University of Colorado, he previously was a science education policy analyst in Washington, D.C.
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