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"Meet the Candidates" Forums 2009
The most important election events of the season!

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The Franklin County Consortium for Good Government, a coalition of non-partisan organizations in Central Ohio, is again organizing "Meet the Candidates" Forums in Franklin County and nearby communities.

This annual series of non-partisan events was initiated in 1991 when Brookwood Presbyterian Church and the National Council of Jewish Women presented the first candidates’ forum.

At a "Meet the Candidates" Forum, members of the public can meet and question the candidates who are running for public offices.  The Consortium invites all candidates who are running in a contested race to at least one of the candidates’ forums.  We may also invite proponents and opponents of issues to the forums depending on decisions by the governing board of the Consortium.

This year the Consortium will hold "Meet the Candidates" Forums  in widely separated geographical sites so that people in most electoral areas will be provided with a convenient place to view candidates. 

The Consortium has worked very hard both to increase the public’s knowledge about candidates and issues, and to remind Central Ohioans that if we wish to have a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” we must educate ourselves about all the candidates and then utilize our constitutional right to vote.


      

 The Latest News!

8/1/08: The tentative schedule of 2008 "Meet the Candidates" Forum events and locations is now online! more ...


8/2/08: Want to find out which legislative districts you live in, who your current elected federal and state officials are and who your local candidates are in the upcoming election?  Click on the Election 2008 graphic below, enter your address and ZIP code, and see all that and more, courtesy of the League of Women Voters of Ohio!

8/25/08: The poster and postcard announcing 2008 "Meet the Candidates" Forum events are now available to view or print on the Promotions page, along with an ad designed for reproduction in newsletters or bulletins.  Also, the online agenda for each event now includes preliminary times for each race.  Note that not all candidates and/or issues have been confirmed to appear and all agendas are subject to change.


9/30/08: Races and times have been updated for all 12 "Meet the Candidates" Forum site agendas based on commitments/regrets from candidates and other adjustments to the schedules.  Changes are still possible; please check the event page for a site of interest again as that event approaches!


    

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2008 Sponsors included

  • Brookwood Presbyterian Church
  • Columbus Jewish Federation
  • League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus Educational Fund
  • National Council of Jewish Women
  • Office for Social Concerns/Catholic Diocese of Columbus
  • Ascension Lutheran Church
  • Black Catholic Ministries
  • Broad Street Presbyterian Church
  • Congregation Beth Tikvah
  • Congregation Tifereth Israel
  • Corpus Christi Catholic Church/St. Ladislas Catholic Church
  • First Unitarian Universalist Church 
  • Jewish Community Center
  • John Glenn Civic Leadership Council at OSU 
  • Northland Community Council
  • Organization of Chinese Americans, Columbus Chapter
  • OSU Hillel 
  • Peace Lutheran Church
  • Prairie Township Senior Center 
  • Redeemer Lutheran Church
  • Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church
  • St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church
  • St. Thomas More Newman Center at OSU
  • Temple Beth Shalom
  • Temple Israel
  • AAUW Worthington Branch
  • Agudas Achim Sisterhood 
  • American Jewish Committee
  • Berwick Civic Association
  • Beth Jacob Synagogue
  • Business & Professional Women, Columbus Chapter
  • Christ Lutheran Church
  • Columbus Metropolitan Area Church Council
  • Common Cause/Ohio 
  • Congregation Ahavas Sholom 
  • Congregation Torah Emat 
  • Council for Public Deliberation
  • Goodwill Columbus  
  • Hadassah
  • Jewish Family Services 
  • Mid-Ohio District Nurses Association
  • National Association of Women Business Owners - Columbus 
  • Northland Area Business Association
  • Ohio Conference on Fair Trade
  • Ohio League of Conservation Voters Ed Fund
  • ORT America
  • Trinity Lutheran Seminary
  • United Way of Central Ohio 
  • Vaud-Villities Productions
  • Women in Government

Supporters

Association of New Americans of Central Ohio • Greater Hilltop Area Commission • JEBBA • Latino Empowerment and Outreach Network LEON

Media Sponsors

  • NBC 4
  • WBNS-10TV
  • WOSU
  • WSYX-TV Channel 6
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