PORT ANGELES — Incumbent Cherie Kidd will debate Dan Bateham, who recently revived his challenge for her City Council seat, during a Port Angeles Business Association breakfast meeting Tuesday.
The debate, with both taking questions from the audience, will be at 7:30 a.m. at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive, Port Angeles.
Kidd, who is seeking a third term on the Port Angeles Council, continued to campaign for the Nov. 3 general election after Bateham dropped out of the race for the Position 7 seat on Sept. 9 because his withdrawal was too late to remove his name from the ballot.
He withdrew from the race nearly four months after the May 18 deadline for withdrawal.
That kept his name on the ballot and in Clallam County and state voter guides — although not in the PDN’s North Olympic Peninsula Voter Guide.
Bateham, a veterans advocate and retired Army staff sergeant, said last Tuesday that he had revived his candidacy.
Ballots were mailed on Oct. 14.
Bateham, 58, who declined to say why he was withdrawing on Sept. 9, said last week that he had dropped out of the race because of health and family issues.
He said the family issues have been resolved and that, although he didn’t want to specify health issues, that he is fit to serve on the council.
Kidd, 69, defeated incumbent Grant Munro in 2007 and ran unopposed in 2011 after Cody Blevins dropped out of the race.
She is a former mayor, a Port Angeles High School graduate and owner of AAA Affordable Storage and U-Haul.
