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WATCH HERE<\/a><\/p>\n Center for the Study of Free Enterprise Director Edward Lopez and political science and public affairs department chair Chris Cooper are slated as panelists on the second of two scheduled forums in which candidates for the NC Congressional District 11 seat will debate regional topics.<\/p>\n Republican Madison Cawthorn and Democrat Moe Davis, candidates for the North Carolina congressional seat left vacant by White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, have both agreed to appear at a two-day joint forum hosted by three of the district\u2019s largest media outlets.<\/p>\n On the evenings of Friday, Sept. 4, and Saturday, Sept. 5, candidates will join moderator Cory Vaillancourt and a diverse panel of guests for \u201cBest in the West: North Carolina\u2019s 11th Congressional District forum.\u201d<\/p>\n The first event, to be held at Western Carolina University\u2019s Biltmore Park campus, will feature questions by Lenoir-Rhyne University Equity and Diversity Institute developer Aisha Adams, former Asheville Citizen-Times political reporter and current Mountain Xpress contributor Mark Barrett and Pete Kaliner, longtime N.C. political reporter, radio host, and podcaster. Topics will include international, national, state, and urban issues.<\/p>\n The second event, to be held at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 5, will include WCU political science and public affairs department chair Chris Cooper, WCU professor of economics and director of WCU\u2019s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise Edward Lopez<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and Principal Chief Richard G. Sneed, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Topics will include rural issues, native issues, and education.<\/p>\n Due to venue capacity limits currently in place, events will not be open to the public but will be live-streamed.\u00a0 Instructions on how to watch will be published in the coming days.<\/strong>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column] Center for the Study of Free Enterprise Director Edward Lopez and political science and public affairs department chair Chris Cooper are slated as panelists on the second of two scheduled forums in which candidates for the NC Congressional District 11 seat will debate regional topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1546,"featured_media":11109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
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Blue Ridge Public Radio, Mountain Xpress and Smoky Mountain News to host a two-day NC11 candidate forum<\/h4>\r\nWATCH HERE<\/a>\r\n\r\nCenter for the Study of Free Enterprise Director Edward Lopez and political science and public affairs department chair Chris Cooper are slated as panelists on the second of two scheduled forums in which candidates for the NC Congressional District 11 seat will debate regional topics.\r\n\r\nRepublican Madison Cawthorn and Democrat Moe Davis, candidates for the North Carolina congressional seat left vacant by White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, have both agreed to appear at a two-day joint forum hosted by three of the district\u2019s largest media outlets.\r\n\r\nOn the evenings of Friday, Sept. 4, and Saturday, Sept. 5, candidates will join moderator Cory Vaillancourt and a diverse panel of guests for \u201cBest in the West: North Carolina\u2019s 11th Congressional District forum.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe first event, to be held at Western Carolina University\u2019s Biltmore Park campus, will feature questions by Lenoir-Rhyne University Equity and Diversity Institute developer Aisha Adams, former Asheville Citizen-Times political reporter and current Mountain Xpress contributor Mark Barrett and Pete Kaliner, longtime N.C. political reporter, radio host, and podcaster. Topics will include international, national, state, and urban issues.\r\n\r\nThe second event, to be held at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 5, will include WCU political science and public affairs department chair Chris Cooper, WCU professor of economics and director of WCU\u2019s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise Edward Lopez<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and Principal Chief Richard G. Sneed, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Topics will include rural issues, native issues, and education.\r\n\r\nDue to venue capacity limits currently in place, events will not be open to the public but will be live-streamed.\u00a0 Instructions on how to watch will be published in the coming days.<\/strong>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[834,322,181,837,840,843,205],"class_list":["post-11103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-candidate-forum","tag-center-for-the-study-of-free-enterprise","tag-csfe","tag-madison-cawthorn","tag-moe-davis","tag-nc-district-11","tag-wcu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11274,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions\/11274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}