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Tue May 1, 2012, 02:51 PM May 2012

Conversations with TX Senate Candidates this Thursday on PBS

http://www.houstonpbs.org/events/conversations-candidates.html

Thursday, May 3, from 7pm - 9pm

All major United States Senate candidates – Democrat and Republican – vying to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison will take part in a two-hour live event – "Conversations with the Candidates" hosted by HoustonPBS's Ernie Manouse and presented by Houston Public Media and the Greater Houston Partnership. Each candidate will be interviewed by KUHF News reporters Laurie Johnson and Dave Fehling. The candidates will also field questions submitted online.

This bi-partisan multi-media event will air on Houston PBS Channel 8, simulcast on KUHF-FM 88.7 FM in Houston, stream live on kuhf.org and carried statewide across public radio and TV stations.


On the link above, you can summit questions to the candidates.
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More from the TexTrib PDittie May 2012 #1

PDittie

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1. More from the TexTrib
Thu May 3, 2012, 04:00 PM
May 2012

Raking a little muck.

The four leading Republican candidates vying to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison in the U.S. Senate will appear at what’s expected to be their last televised event of the primary tonight in Houston. And they'll be joined for the first time by two of the four Democratic candidates in the race: Paul Sadler and Sean Hubbard. (...)

The two others, educator Grady Yarbrough and Addie Allen, a disaster assistance worker for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, are also in the race but weren't invited to tonight's forum — a fact they're none too pleased about. (...)

Meanwhile, Allen and Yarbrough are both trying to get their own message out to voters — and are concerned that they're not invited to participate tonight. Allen said excluding any candidates from a forum is "undemocratic" and "manipulative." Yarbrough said he has trouble getting past the fact that the two Democrats included in the forum are white and the two excluded are black. "I can’t say for sure that discrimination is a byproduct of that, but certainly, just from the surface, one would get that impression," he said.

A Houston Public Media spokeswoman said the organization looked at several factors in deciding which candidates to invite, including polling data, campaign infrastructure and media coverage. Along with Allen and Yarbrough, five of the nine Republican candidates were also not invited.


http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-congressional-election/democrats-in-us-senate-race-in-spotlight-tonight/

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