The September 25th Purdue Votes Municipal Candidate Forum’s originally scheduled Mayoral component is cancelled.
Mayor Dennis had originally agreed to attend the event, but then backed away from his commitment due to a conflict. This is a common practice among incumbents to deprive the community public dialogue with their opponents.
The Purdue Votes Coalition then met and decided to change their original policy of allowing empty chairs to no longer doing so:
This is the second change we have seen with the forums scheduled for this election season. The original October 10th League of Women Voters Forum is now tentatively scheduled for October 21st. (Update: Dennis backed out of his commitment for the League’s event.)
We plan on holding public engagement opportunities earlier in the day on the 25th and also attending the City Council and Reception portions of the Purdue Votes event.