Monday, January 08, 2007
BREAKING NEWS!!!! ONE OF THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DEBATES WILL BE HELD AT SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY IN APRIL!!!
More details to come!
Democrats to release details of planned presidential debate
By JIM DAVENPORT Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, S.C.
South Carolina Democrats will detail plans for a presidential candidates debate Monday during a news conference at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg County, the largest concentration of black voters in this early voting state.Party officials confirmed last month they were planning what could be the first debate of the 2008 presidential cycle, but released few specifics.The party's executive director, Lachlan McIntosh, said Monday that state party chairman Joe Erwin, U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., and South Carolina State President Andrew Hugine Jr. would release details at the news conference, which will be held at Martin Luther King Auditorium on the campus of the historically black university.South Carolina was selected as an early voting state in a move intended to add racial and geographic diversity to the early voting.The university could be an interesting debate site and has a storied history in the civil rights movement. On Feb. 8, 1968, three people were killed and 27 were injured after the South Carolina Highway Patrol fired on people demonstrating against segregation, an event known as the Orangeburg Massacre.South Carolina's GOP plans its first debate May 15 at the University of South Carolina's Koger Center in Columbia
Democrats to release details of planned presidential debate
By JIM DAVENPORT Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, S.C.
South Carolina Democrats will detail plans for a presidential candidates debate Monday during a news conference at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg County, the largest concentration of black voters in this early voting state.Party officials confirmed last month they were planning what could be the first debate of the 2008 presidential cycle, but released few specifics.The party's executive director, Lachlan McIntosh, said Monday that state party chairman Joe Erwin, U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., and South Carolina State President Andrew Hugine Jr. would release details at the news conference, which will be held at Martin Luther King Auditorium on the campus of the historically black university.South Carolina was selected as an early voting state in a move intended to add racial and geographic diversity to the early voting.The university could be an interesting debate site and has a storied history in the civil rights movement. On Feb. 8, 1968, three people were killed and 27 were injured after the South Carolina Highway Patrol fired on people demonstrating against segregation, an event known as the Orangeburg Massacre.South Carolina's GOP plans its first debate May 15 at the University of South Carolina's Koger Center in Columbia
