An important debate among the three candidates for Missouri’s hotly contested 3rd District seat in the U.S. Congress will begin at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 in the May Auditorium of Simon Hall.
Free and open to the public, the candidate debate is sponsored by the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy in Arts & Sciences, and three local media outlets: KETC-TV Channel 9, KWMU public radio and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
All three candidates for the seat — Libertarian Kevin Babcock, Democrat Russ Carnahan, and Republican Bill Federer — have agreed to participate. All are vying to fill the seat held since 1976 by Richard Gephardt.
The race will be decided in the Nov. 2 general election.
Jim Kirchherr, a program host and senior producer at KETC, will moderate the debate. Candidates will field questions on foreign- and domestic-policy issues as presented by a panel composed of student Katie Ridgway, a WUSTL political science and economics major from Westerville, Ohio; Jo Mannies, a political reporter from the Post-Dispatch, and Tom Weber, KWMU public radio’s morning drive newscaster and reporter.
For more information, call Melinda Warren at 935-5652.