{"id":3322,"date":"2026-09-30T23:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2026-09-30T23:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:51:56","slug":"ely-city-council-candidate-forum-09-10-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/ely-city-council-candidate-forum-09-10-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ely City Council Candidate forum  09\/10\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"384\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-11.47.55\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-11.47.55\u202fPM.png 384w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-11.47.55\u202fPM-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-11.47.55\u202fPM-150x70.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Scroll down for YouTube clip<\/mark><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ely Branch of AAUW and the Ely Rotary Club hosted an Ely City Council candidate forum on September 10, 2026, at the Ely Vermilion Campus. This is a nonpartisan election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City Council Candidates seated left to right: Josh Brang (absent), Lacey Squier, Al Forsman, Abby Dare, Mark Zupec, and Angela Campbell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidates&#8217; statements (below) were submitted to and printed out by AAUW\/Rotary, and then given to audience just before the forum started. Statements were edited for space reasons. Scroll down to read their statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: AAUW\/Rotary hosted the Ely Mayoral Candidate Forum earlier tonight. Watch on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3fqmQ-pGqyc\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/3fqmQ-pGqyc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For info about MN elections on November 3, 2026, go to the MN Secretary of State website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.mn.gov\/elections-voting\/\">https:\/\/www.sos.mn.gov\/elections-voting\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"961\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Council-961x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Council-961x1024.png 961w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Council-282x300.png 282w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Council-768x818.png 768w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Council-141x150.png 141w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Council-400x426.png 400w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Council.png 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ely MN City Council Candidate Forum 09\/10\/2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7i2vovmPI2w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scroll down for YouTube clip<\/p>\n<p>The Ely Branch of AAUW and the Ely Rotary Club hosted an Ely City Council candidate forum on September 10, 2026, at the Ely Vermilion Campus. This is a nonpartisan election.<\/p>\n<p>City Council Candidates seated left to right: Josh Brang (absent), Lacey Squier, Al Forsman, Abby Dare, Mark Zupec, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[323],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}