Chamber will host candidates forum

By: Business Monday - Jim Charapich | Culpeper Star Exponent
Published: October 29, 2012 Updated: October 29, 2012 - 12:00 AM

The Culpeper Chamber of Commerce will host a candidates forum for the Culpeper special election candidates. The forum will be held Thursday at the Reva Volunteer Fire Station in the Salem District. We will host both candidates for the Board of Supervisor’s Salem District seat as well as the candidates for the Commonwealth Attorney’s race.

The Chamber of Commerce invests a great deal of time and resources to facilitate such forums. Since this is a special election, the forum was recommended in committee on September 19 for Chamber board consideration. The Chamber board of directors subsequently agreed to move forward with this forum at their monthly meeting on September 25.

Candidates were provided with the questions for the forum on Friday morning. They will be given approximately two minutes each to answer each question. The questions were submitted for consideration by members of the Chamber of Commerce. The moderator will be given flexibility to ask follow up questions. We plan for each set of questions for the two races to take approximately 30 minutes. The forum is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. and end at 8:30 pm.

In addition, we have invited Mary Dale, Chair, Culpeper Electoral Board to review the constitutional amendments being considered on the ballot.

Seating is limited. Coffee will be available (a $1donation is suggested) from the Reva Volunteer Fire Station.

We are very grateful for the hospitality of the RVFS in opening the facility for the forum. Please consider a generous donation for their ever present and vital volunteer service to the community. We are also very grateful to the Culpeper Media Network for being available to film the event for publication via their network channels.

Please mark your calendars for Nov. 6 and remember to vote. A right founded in the priceless spirit of our heritage.

Jim Charapich is the President/CEO of the Culpeper Chamber of Commerce. He can be reached at JimC@CulpeperChamber.com.