Earlier this week, we’ve highlighted two of the three Pella City Council candidates running for the at-large seat in Pella: incumbent Mark De Jong and challenger Rhonda Kermode.

Dan Spotten is also running in that same race, and at the recent PACE Alliance Pella City Council candidate forum, discussed his desire for the council to take a more hands-off approach in the lives of citizens when it comes to regulation. One issue that Spotten wants to bring to the public’s attention is that if he is elected, he will work to ensure that the regional airport isn’t built.

“My platform is pretty simple, you’ve seen my signs, you’ve seen my truck–I’m against this airport,” he says. “I think it’s a bad move. We as citizens of this city have not been allowed to vote on this airport. For whatever reasons, I hear a lot of things, however, we’re not going to get a vote. If you are against the airport, this is your only chance to vote. Voting for me will send a message, that we’re tired of monkeying around with this thing, that it’s time to put it to bed, put it to rest–it’s time to move on.”

Tomorrow, incumbent in the Ward One Race Dan Vander Beek will be featured, and on Friday, his challenger Lynn Hinga Branderhorst. Stay tuned to the one to count on for award-winning local election coverage, KNIA/KRLS.

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