Extra: Election
Campaign Journal
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, September 11, 2008
The South Kingstown Chamber of Commerce invites the public to attend three Tuesday-night candidate forums this fall.
Candidates for the South Kingstown Town Council will present their views Sept. 23; for the General Assembly on Oct. 7; and for Congress and the U.S. Senate on Oct. 21. Each forum will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Chamber conference room at 230 Old Tower Hill Rd.
The overall theme of the events will be the economic vision for Southern Rhode Island. Questions are being collected from Chamber-member business owners. Questions will be posed by a panel comprising local media representatives and Chamber board members. They will be directed to candidates in random order.
To submit a question, e-mail info@skchamber.com.
• Mark Zaccaria, Republican candidate for Congress in the 2nd Representative District, yesterday announced that his campaign will travel to Block Island on Sunday to discuss island issues with residents and officials. The free event, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the American Legion Hall at West Side and Old Town roads, will also feature David A. Coté, Republican candidate in House District 36 (Westerly, Charlestown, South Kingstown and New Shoreham), and the party’s candidates for town offices.
• Lance Chappell, a Republican candidate for the North Kingstown School Committee, has challenged his fellow candidates to decline PAC money from the local teachers union, National Education Association-North Kingstown. He said in a release that the influence of labor unions in local elections encourages misplaced allegiances.
“I hope,” said Chappell, “that the citizens of North Kingstown will consider whether their candidates receive labor union funding before they head to the polls in November. They really ought to understand that such money is contributed in exchange for expensive contractual commitments and other favors later on. It’s a costly practice that has gotten us into a serious financial bind across the state.”
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