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THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE – The Skagit County League of Women Voters hosted a forum for the two county commissioner seats contested this November. From left, for District 2 commissioner, Mount Vernon Councilmember Richard Brocksmith, incumbent Commissioner Peter Browning, moderator John Sternlicht, for District 1 commissioner, incumbent Commissioner Ron Wesen and Bow resident Rylee Fleury.
MOUNT VERNON - The four candidates for two county commissioner seats were tested with a lightning round question-and-answer format during a one-hour Skagit League of Women Voters public forum Monday night.
Final grades on their candidacies will be issued by voters after mail-in ballots are returned.
A large crowd of close to 100 squeezed into the Skagit PUD's Aqua Room for the briskly paced event, in which opening and closing statements by challengers Richard Brocksmith and Rylee Fleury and incumbents Peter Browning and Ron Wesen bookended two rapid-fire Q&A segments.
Fleury and Wesen are cont...
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