Candidate Forums

The Champaign County League of Women Voters, co-hosted with the NAACP of Champaign County and the News-Gazette, are hosting two candidate forums soon. The News-Gazette had an overview earlier this week here. Here are links and details of both events:

January 30, 2020 Candidate Forum:

Facebook Event Information: https://www.facebook.com/events/598129424298047/

Questions for the candidates can be submitted ahead of the forum at: AskTheCandidates@lwvchampaigncounty.org
or through our website: http://lwvchampaigncounty.org

Candidate Forum promptly starts at 7pm. Doors will open ~6:30pm.

Moderator: Trisha Crowley/Peggy LaFrance

• 7:00 - 7:30 Circuit Clerk: Robert Burkhalter; Susan McGrath

• 7:35 - 8:20 Champaign County Circuit Judge: Troy Lozar; David Moore; Ramona Sullivan; Ruth Wyman

• 8:25 - 8:55 County Board 8: Emily Rodriguez; Giraldo Rosales

February 10, 2020 Candidate Forum:

Facebook Event Information: https://www.facebook.com/events/2518976161761749/

Candidate Forum promptly starts at 7pm. Doors will open ~6:30pm.

Moderator: Peggy LaFrance

• 7:00 - 7:45 U.S. House of Representative - IL-13: Betsy Dirksen Londrigan; Stefanie Smith

• 7:50 - 8:20 County Board 6: DeShawn Williams; Charles Young

• 8:25 - 8:55 County Board 10: Mary King; Connie Dillard-Myers

• (County Board 9 is still pending candidate confirmation)

• 9:00 - 9:30 County Board 9: Cynthia Fears;  Jennifer Straub

Election race pages will be updated on the Cheat Sheet to links of video and news coverage of the forums along with other questionnaires and candidate information as it becomes available.