Second LWV Candidate Forum

Last week the Champaign County's League of Women Voters, NAACP, and the News-Gazette hosted a candidate forum including some Democratic primary County Board candidates, Circuit Clerk candidates, and Judicial candidates. Today they'll be hosting a second candidate forum with Democratic primary U.S. Congressional candidates and County Board candidates from District 6 and District 10. For more information on tonight's candidate forum, see the LWV's facebook event page here. For more information about the previous candidate forum, including coverage and video links, see this previous Cheat Sheet post.

Forum schedule from the event page:

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

The event page still states that the section for "County Board 9 is still pending candidate confirmation," but last I heard Cynthia Fears had officially declined to participate. Jennifer Straub has publicly stated she planned to attend and meet with voters around the event. The District 9 seat on the County Board has been the issue of controversy within the local Democratic Party in a long line of appointment controversies between competing factions within that party. More on that in a previous Cheat Sheet post here.

For more information about the upcoming election, check out our Elections page or some of the quick links below:

Next major County races in the March 17th, 2020 primary.
Preliminary 2020 Primary Information:

• Champaign County Voters Alliance primary election Candidate Guide!

• County Board District Maps to find your district and county board members.

• County-wide offices page.

• Judicial races information.