There’s a Candidate Forum tonight at 6:30 in the Chadron State College Student Center Scottsbluff Room that will be telecast on Great Plains Cable 20 and streamed on the internet at ustream.tv/channel/csc-cable-channel-20

The forum will feature the candidates for Legislative District 43, the Chadron City Council and the Chadron School Board along with representative of or statements from the candidates in the U-S Senate and 3rd Congressional District races.

Questions will submitted to moderators who then ask the questions of the candidates. Some questions will have been submitted in advance, while others will be submitted tonight at the forum. Questions will also be taken by phone, but the phone number won’t be released until the start of the forum.

The schedule will begin at 6:30 with the representatives or statements from the U-S Senate candidates…Republican Deb Fischer and Democrat Bob Kerrey…followed at 6:45 by the representatives or statements of the House candidates…incumbent Republican Adrian Smith and Democrat Mark Sullivan.

The two survivors of the 7-candidate primary for the 43rd Legislative District…Al Davis of Hyannis and John Ravenscroft of Nenzel…will take the platform from 7-to-7:30. Ravenscroft and Davis took part in a similar candidates forum last night in Alliance.

There are 3 candidates for 2 positions on the Chadron City Council…Paris Fisher, former councilman John Gamby, and current councilman Jim Mapes. They will answer questions from 7:45 to 8:30.

Concluding the evening from 8:45 to 9:30 will be the four candidates for 3 spots on the Chadron School Board…incumbents Terri Haynes and Keith Drinkwalter and challengers Gary Hoffman and Andrew Spencer.