County voters to have primary election choices
/Voters in Crawford County will have choices to make in the June 4 primary election.
Two Republicans will be facing each other for the nomination for the sheriff’s position and four Republicans are running for the two seats up for election for county supervisor.
The Republican candidates for sheriff are Roger E. Rasmussen, chief deputy with the sheriff’s office, and Yovan G. Cardenas, captain with the Denison Police Department.
The incumbent sheriff, James Steinkuehler, is not running for reelection but instead is one of the four Republican candidates running for the board of supervisors. The others are incumbents Ty Rosburg and Jean Heiden, and Paul Outhouse.
The only other county seat up for election is the county auditor. The incumbent, Terri Martens, a Democrat, was the only person to file nomination papers for that office.
The filing deadline was on Friday, March 22. Candidates who filed had until March 27 to withdraw their names.
Rosburg, from Charter Oak, and Heiden, from Denison, were elected to the board of supervisors in 2020. Terms are for four years.
Martens has been the county auditor since 2009.
The filing deadline for federal and state candidates was on Friday, March 15.
Federal and state candidates whose names will be on the June 4 primary ballot are the following.
U.S. Representative District 4
Republicans
• Randy Feenstra, Hull, incumbent
• Kevin Virgil, Sutherland
Democrats
• Ryan Melton, Nevada
State Senate District 6
Republicans
• Jason Schultz, Schleswig, incumbent
Democrats
• No candidate
State Representative District 12
Republicans
• Steven Holt, Denison, incumbent
Democrats
• Dustin Durbin, Dow City
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