Business West, along with other neighborhood associations in Wyandotte County and the Kansas City Kansas Community College, will sponsor a Candidate’s Forum from 6 p.m. until 8:05 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, in the Upper Jewell Building at KCKCC, 7250 State Ave.
The forum will be taped for playback on the college’s Community Access Channel 17.
The format: Each candidate will have two minutes for introductory remarks. A panel of newspaper editors and neighborhood leaders will ask questions of each candidate. Candidates will have one minute to respond to each question. The panel will have the opportunity to ask follow-up questions. Each candidate will have one minute to make closing remarks. This will not be a debate.
Representatives will be allowed to speak for candidates who are not able to attend. However, these representatives will only be able to make opening and closing remarks.
The approximate schedule:
6 p.m. Opening remarks
6:05 p.m. Candidates for U.S. Senate
6:35 p.m. Candidates for U.S. Representative, Third District
7: 05 p.m. Candidates for State Representative, 36th District
7:35 p.m. Candidates for State Senate, Fifth District
8:05 p.m. Closing remarks
For more information, telephone Murrel Bland at 913-766-4300 or 913-406-6266 or email [email protected].