A forum for candidates running for the U.S. Senate seats in North Carolina will be held at 7 p.m. April 13 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A forum for candidates running for the U.S. Senate seats in North Carolina will be held at 7 p.m. April 13 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch of the NAACP will co-sponsor the free public forum in the center auditorium at 150 South Road. Fred Shropshire of WTVD’s Eyewitness News will moderate.
Candidates will share their views on education, jobs, health care and foreign policy.
Democrats Cal Cunningham, Ken Lewis, Elaine Marshall, Marcus Williams and Libertarian Michael Beitler have agreed to participate. Republican Richard Burr is currently unconfirmed as a participant.
Parking will be available in the deck under the FedEx Global Education Center, off McCauley Street near Pittsboro Street, and in the Ram’s Head deck off Stadium Drive.
Additional forum co-sponsors are Balance & Accuracy in Journalism; Chapel Hill Friends Meeting; Elders for Peace; Orange County Democratic Women; Orange County Peace Coalition; Orange/Chatham County Progressive Democrats; Triangle Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom; UNC Black Faculty and Staff Caucus; UNC Black Graduate and Professional Student Association; UNC Executive Branch of Student Government; and UNC Young Democrats.
For more information about the Stone Center and its programs, visit http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu.
NAACP contact: William Thorpe (919) 593-1093, billthorpegolfclassic@yahoo.com
Stone Center contact: Gordon Ryan, (919) 962-9001 or gryan@unc.edu