Reminder: House debate is tonight

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Bedford County Republican Women will sponsor a debate among the candidates for the empty seat in the 62nd District state House of Representatives race tonight at 6 in the Shelbyville Central High School auditorium.

All four Republican candidates and the lone independent candidate are scheduled to attend; the lone Democratic candidate declined, citing a schedule conflict.

The empty seat was last held by Curt Cobb, who stepped down in late June to accept the position of Bedford County Clerk and Master, the court clerk for Chancery Court.

The only candidate in the Democratic primary is Cobb's brother, Ty Cobb of Shelbyville. The GOP challengers are Joseph Byrd of Unionville, Pat Marsh of Shelbyville, Bobby Scott of Shelbyville and Casey Walters of Fayetteville.

Chris Brown of Shelbyville has qualified for the general election as an independent.

The debate will be moderated by Dr. Carl Bailey.

The debate is scheduled to last an hour, followed by 30 minutes for the candidates to mingle and meet the voters.

The event will be broadcast on WLIJ-AM, and they will also provide a live feed for Fayetteville listeners. The debate will be shown twice on Charter's cable access channel 6 and could be shown elsewhere in the state.

Early voting for the party primaries will continue through Saturday at the county election office, which is located in the basement of the county courthouse. Weekday hours are 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., and Saturday hours are 9 a.m. until noon.

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I wish Cobb would have attended this event because I still don't know where he stands on some issues but so far he is the front runner for my vote.

-- Posted by jaxspike on Tue, Aug 18, 2009, at 10:05 AM

Just wanted to remind everyone that there are more canidates running in the Republican primary besides Casey "Oompa Loompa" Walters and Pat "Daddy Warbucks" Marsh.

-- Posted by Sunni1 on Tue, Aug 18, 2009, at 11:20 AM

And those candidates are listed plainly in this story, so what's your point? Are you supporting Joseph "I Have Zero Chance" Byrd or Bobby "Who Am I" Scott?

-- Posted by DoubleJ on Tue, Aug 18, 2009, at 1:17 PM

jaxspike,

The reason he isn't there is because he isn't a Republican.

-- Posted by Evil Monkey on Tue, Aug 18, 2009, at 5:01 PM

Interesting how people who reply to these topics can be so distasteful and disrespectful to others...

-- Posted by countrygal26 on Tue, Aug 18, 2009, at 10:11 PM

EM . . . the debate was open to all including the independent candidate and Cobb was invited also but he declined due to a schedule conflict. If it was me I would make time for it . . . especially if I wanted to win.

Oh well, hopefully we will get an opportunity to hear his views before the election because I really would like to vote for him but want to make sure I know most of his views on the issues.

-- Posted by jaxspike on Wed, Aug 19, 2009, at 7:25 AM