Meet the 2025 candidates for Lawrence City Commission

Lawrence voters on Tuesday will determine the next two people who will serve as Lawrence city commissioners.

We asked candidates Mike Courtney, Bart Littlejohn, Kristine Polian and Bob Schumm about the experience that they believe qualifies them to run, what pressing issues they see in the city, their stances on fees to use the rec centers and changes coming to the Community Building, and more.

This questionnaire includes answers from the one we first published July 13 ahead of the Aug. 5 primary, condensed to only include responses from the general election candidates. We’ve also added candidates’ answers to a few new questions we asked this week based on further information our readers have requested.

Responses are verbatim what the candidates provided, other than a few clear spelling and grammar errors corrected for readability. We did not give candidates a word limit but encouraged them to keep answers concise.



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