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 at Washington University in St. Louis.
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, political reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Tom Weber, KWMU public radio’s morning drive newscaster and reporter.
For more information, call Melinda Warren at 935-5652.