Chamber to Host City of Knoxville Mayoral Debate
The Knoxville Chamber will host a debate of the candidates for mayor of the City of Knoxville at 7:30 p.m. on July 28, 2011 at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium.
The debate will feature the four leading mayoral candidates based on fundraising totals - Ivan Harmon, Joe Hultquist, Mark Padgett, and Madeline Rogero. John Becker will emcee the debate and questions will come from a panel focusing on business issues, audience members, and via Twitter. The public can suggest questions prior to or during the debate by tweeting and including the hashtag #chamberdebate. Chamber members can offer questions prior to July 28th by emailing gwagley@knoxvillechamber.com.
The debate will be broadcast live on WBIR and NewsTalk 98.7 from 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. Underwriters of the debate are Aqua-Chem, the Knoxville News Sentinel, and Toyota/Lexus of Knoxville.
