EGBA Candidate forum

from Erie Gay Business Alliance

On Sunday, October 26, the Erie Gay Business Alliance held a candidate forum for US Presidential, US Congressional PA-3, PA State Senate District 49 and PA State House for districts that are in Erie County. We had about 60 people or so attend. In terms of candidates for Federal office, we had Jamie Citron, who is the Deputy LGBT Outreach coordinator for the Obama/Biden campaign, all three candidates for US Congress PA-3 - Kathy Dahlkemper (D), a representative for Phil English (R-Incumbent) and Steve Porter (I). For Pennsylvania state candidates, we had Cindy Purvis (D) for PA State Senate District 49, Jason Owen (R ) for PA State House District 3, and Rick Mitchell (D) for PA State House District 4. All of the PA state candidates who attended are the non-incumbents.

It went fairly well. Local ABC news affiliate WJET TV 24 was there and ran a story on the 11 PM news broadcast.

Thanks to Zone Dance Club for hosting (and Tommy for opening the bar for us), Janice, Laurie, Lisa, Gene and Richard for set up/clean up, Joe the VJ for sound, Josh for help with introductions, Deb for taking photos, and Brian for publicity.