A Get to Know the D-17 Candidates Forum for the State Representative seat held with distinction for twenty-eight years by John Binienda will be held on Thursday, August 28 at 6:00 PM at the Worcester Lodge of Elks, 233 Mill St., Worcester, MA. A large crowd of voters and other interested parties is expected to attend this final political and educational event before the September 9 primary elections.
District 17 is made up of all of Leicester, all five precincts of Worcester’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, Precincts 2,3,4.
For this seat, three Democrats (Doug Belanger, Moses Dixon and Mike Germain) are vying for the right to meet Republican candidate, Kate Campanale in the November election. All four candidates will participate in the forum.
Asking questions of the candidates will be Walter Bird, Senior Writer for Worcester Magazine (the forum’s main sponsor), Hank Stolz, WCRN radio personality and host of The Hank Stolz Experience on Charter TV3, and Gary Rosen, District 5 Worcester City Councilor and host of Rosen’s Roundtable on WCCA TV13.
Besides fielding questions from the panel, the candidates will be allowed to ask probing questions of each other.
During the forum, a cash bar will be operated by the Elks Lodge to help support its community service and scholarship programs.
