Silent No More Group Plans Meet The Candidate Forum For US Senate Candidate
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Jennifer Peryam-jperyam@timesuniononline.com
The public will have the opportunity Tuesday to meet a candidate who is seeking the US Senate seat in the 2010 election.
Don Bates Jr., Winchester, will speak Tuesday night at the forum.
Kosciusko County Silent No More is scheduling the candidate forum at 7 p.m. at Warsaw Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 210 S. High St. The public is invited to attend.
Bates will speak about why he is running for the U.S. Senate seat in the 2010 election against current U.S. Senator Evan Bayh. Bates will speak for 15 minutes, and the floor will be opened for questions from the public.In November, the group plans to co-host a statewide town hall meeting for all the senator candidates.
In February, the group also plans to bring all the senate candidates together for a forum.
Marlin Stutzman, Howe, and Richard Behney, Carmel, also are seeking the seat. Dan Dumezich, Schereville, is considering seeking the seat. The group is working to bring the candidates to Kosciusko County to speak.
The candidates were previously interviewed by the Times-Union when they attended the Kosciusko County Republican party's fish fry Oct. 7 at the Kosciusko Community Fairgrounds.
Kosciusko County Silent No More is a non-partisan grassroots organization charged with coordinating and organizing citizens of Kosciusko County and surrounding communities. The group is formerly known as the Kosciusko County Tea Party.
It was decided the group needed to organize formally into a group of Hoosiers who have made a pact to not be silent, said Monica Boyer, Silent No More co-founder.
Boyer and Jeremiah Heierman, also a co-founder, meet the first and third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at Warsaw Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
They communicate, brainstorm and organize a movement to bring the U.S. closer to what the founding fathers intended it to be.
The mission of the group is to support candidates and elected officials who are fiscally responsible and exercise the use of common sense in their legislation and voting record, Boyer said.
