Over the next few weeks, there will be a series of candidate forums focused on:
- Developing a health care system that works for everyone
- Affordable childcare and access to quality early education
- Access to jobs and the impact of cuts to public services
These forums focus on local (house and senate) candidates. The full schedule is:
| Sept. 30: | Montpelier | 6:30pm | Unitarian Church, 130 Main St. |
| Oct. 5: | White River Jct. | 6:30pm | Hartford High School |
| Oct. 6: | Essex | 6:30pm | ADL Middle School |
| Oct. 7: | St. Albans | 6:30pm | Franklin County Senior Center |
| Oct. 12: | St. Johnsbury | 6:30pm | Catamount Arts, 115 Eastern Ave |
| Oct. 13: | Rutland | 6:30 | Rutland Free Library, 10 Court Street |
| Oct. 14: | Brattleboro, | 6:30pm | Bratt. Union H.S., Multi-purpose Room |
| Oct. 17: | Morrisville | 6:30pm | VFW Hall Post 9563, 28 VFW Street |
| Oct. 18: | Middlebury | 6:30pm | Mary Johnson Children’s Center |
| Oct. 19: | Barre | 6:30pm | Barre Old Labor Hall, 46 Granite Street |
| Oct. 19: | Bennington | 6:30pm | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship |
| Oct. 20: | Newport | 6:30pm | North Country Career Center |
| Oct. 21: | Burlington | 6:30pm | Main Street Landing |
| Oct. 25: | Randolph | 6:30pm | VT Technical College |
| Oct. 26: | Williston | 6:30pm | Williston Central School |
The forums are sponsored by the Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign – Vermont Workers’ Center, Vermont Early Educators United – American Federation of Teachers and the Vermont Center for Independent Living.
My hope is that some of us will be able to live blog these forums as they come up, so if there’s one you’re interested in or available to live blog, please comment and I’ll see what I can do to help set it up. If you’re not a site moderator, I can still bump your live blog to the front page when it’s happening. Both Sue Prent and I have had experience doing live blogging of these forums and though I can’t speak for Sue, I’d be glad to give suggestions and advice on how to do a live blog while still keeping (relatively) sane.
I’m glad you qualified the word “sane” with “relatively.” I’ll be happy to help however I can.
Gubernatorial candidates, just local congressional candidates…?
I’ll be participating in St Albans forum, and hope all the other invited candidates can join me.
I know GMD will spread the word about these important events, and I’m sure commenters will, too. Our friends at VWC will probably have plenty of fliers if you want to help…
Gubernatorial candidates Peter Shumlin and Brian Dubie will be in the Upper Valley on September 18th from 5-6 pm at Bradford Academy in Bradford, VT.
The forum is free and is the closing event of the Local Energy Alternatives Festival (L.E.A.F.),an all day festival. Visit http://www.leafvt.org/ for event details.
Thanks for posting this. Great news about these forums.