{"id":22485,"date":"2018-06-22T10:44:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=22485"},"modified":"2018-06-29T08:28:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:28:24","slug":"gubernatorial-forum-held-monday-at-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/gubernatorial-forum-held-monday-at-utc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gubernatorial Forum held Monday at UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<h3><strong><strong>If you go<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><strong><strong>What: <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>Times Free Press Gubernatorial Forum<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>When<\/strong>:<\/strong> 6-8 p.m. Monday, June 25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where: <\/strong>Tennessee Room in UTC\u2019s University Center, 642 E. Fifth St.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To register: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2IdNAid\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2IdNAid<\/a>, only seats for watching a livestream in a separate room are available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parking:<\/strong> Available in the Fifth Street garage next to the University Center<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2K8F6dR\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2K8F6dR<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Four of the six candidates for Tennessee governor have confirmed that they will be on UTC\u2019s campus Monday, June 25, \u00a0for a gubernatorial forum.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the 90-minute forum is being held in the University Center\u2019s Tennessee Room from 6-8 p.m. A 30-minute meet-and-greet will follow the forum.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans Randy Boyd, former Tennessee Economic and Community Development commissioner, and businessman Bill Lee will attend, while Democrats\u00a0Karl\u00a0Dean,\u00a0former mayor of Nashville, and state Rep. Craig Fitzhugh also will be at the forum.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Beth Harwell, speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, is trying to work out her schedule to attend; U.S. Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., was invited but has not responded.<\/p>\n<p>The free tickets are sold out, but you can watch a livestream of the event in another room. To register, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2IdNAid\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2IdNAid<\/a>. You also can stand in the Tennessee Room and, if there are seats available, they\u2019ll be handed out in a first-come first-serve basis.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting begins July 13 for the primary election, which will be held on Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>You can suggest questions prior to the forum by emailing news@timesfreepress.com\u00a0or posting them on Twitter with the hashtag #TFPforum or on the newspaper\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Free parking is available in the Fifth Street garage next to the University Center.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates for state governor will be in the University Center on Monday to participate in a forum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/gubernatorial-forum-held-monday-at-utc\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":22502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12659,10170,64],"tags":[72947,72946],"class_list":{"0":"post-22485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events-entertainment","8":"category-lectures-and-speakers","9":"category-news","10":"tag-governor","11":"tag-gubernatorial","12":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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