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Video of Sedona Mayoral and City Council candidate forum at SPAC1 min read

Sedona voters heard directly from local candidates during the Greater Sedona Chamber of Commerce’s 2026 Mayoral & City Council Candidate Forum, hosted in partnership with the League of Women Voters of Northern Arizona and the Sedona Lodging Council, at Sedona Red Rock High School’s Sedona Performing Arts Center on Thursday, June 11.

The candiates offered voters a chance to learn more about their backgrounds, priorities and visions for Sedona’s future. Mayoral candidates Henry Silbiger and Vice Mayor Brian Fultz spoke in the first half of the forum with City Council candidates Jean-Christophe Buillet, Rich Gay, Tony Hauserman and incumbent Sedona City Councilman Melissa Dunn in the second half. Council candidate Lita Loesch Boyd was scheduled to attend but had a family emergency. The moderator read a statement from Boyd.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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