League of Women Voters to host upcoming primary election forums

League of Women Voters Bellingham-Whatcom County (LWV) has several upcoming 2022 primary election forums scheduled for July. 

The forums will be held remotely, via Zoom and broadcast through the city of Bellingham’s BTV, Comcast channels 321 (HD) and 10 (SD). Voters can watch the broadcast later on the city of Bellingham’s YouTube channel, bit.ly/3NaSjTi, and the LWV website, lwvbellinghamwhatcom.org. Translations will be available in Spanish and Punjabi. 

The first forum will be held 6-6:45 p.m. Thursday, July 7 for U.S. representative district 2 candidates. The candidates are Cody Hart, Dan Matthews, Doug “Yoshe” Revelle, Bill Wheeler, Jon Welch, Brandon Lee Stalnaker, Jason Call, Leif Johnson, Carrie R. Kennedy and incumbent Rick Larsen. 

LWV will hold its 42nd district representative 1 seat forum 5-5:35 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13. The candidates are incumbent Alicia Rule, Kamal Bhachu and Tawsha Dykstra Thompson. The 42nd district representative 2 forum will be held 6:15-6:45 p.m. July 13, which has candidates Kyle Christensen, Joseph Timmons, Richard May and Daniel Johnson Sr.

On Thursday, July 14, LWV will hold forums for Whatcom District Court Judge and 42nd district state senator. The district court judge forum will start 5-5:35 p.m. with candidates Jonathan Rands, Gordon M. Jenkins and David Nelson. The state senator forum will be 6:15-6:35 p.m. with candidates Sharon Shewmake, Ben Elenbaas and Simon Sefzik.