{"id":3732,"date":"2012-08-01T13:15:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2012-08-02T10:11:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T15:11:25","slug":"august-7-second-congressional-district-candidate-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3732","title":{"rendered":"August 7 Second Congressional District Candidate Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PROFS is cosponsoring a forum featuring candidates in Wisconsin&#8217;s Second Congressional District Democratic primary on August 7. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-Madison) is leaving the House of Representatives to run for the United States Senate, leaving the seat open for the first time since 1998. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisc.edu\/\">University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/\">WISC-TV3<\/a> will host the event and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspro.net\/\">ASPRO<\/a> is a cosponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Four Democrats will be on the August 14 ballot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hall4congress.com\/\">Dennis Hall<\/a>, a cyber and electronic security consultant from Cambridge<\/li>\n<li>State Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/pocanforcongress.com\/\">Mark Pocan<\/a>, a Madison small-business owner<\/li>\n<li>State Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keldaforcongress.com\/\">Kelda Roys<\/a>, a Madison attorney<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/silvermanforcongress.com\/\">Matt Silverman<\/a>, a veteran and 2010 UW-Madison Law School graduate from Madison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The forum will be held <strong>Tuesday, August 7 at 7 pm<\/strong> in the DeLuca Forum in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.map.wisc.edu\/?initObj=bdg_wid&amp;z=70&amp;x=-0.202726&amp;y=-0.218261\">Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery<\/a>, 330 North Orchard Street. WISC-TV3 editorial director Neil Heinen will moderate and take questions from political science professor Ken Mayer and political reporter Jessica Arp. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the primary will face Republican Chad Lee and Independent Rocky Ison in November. A general election candidate forum is planned for October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROFS is cosponsoring a forum featuring candidates in Wisconsin&#8217;s Second Congressional District Democratic primary on August 7. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-Madison) is leaving the House of Representatives to run for the United States Senate, leaving the seat open for the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3732\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,65],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","tag-candidate-forum","tag-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}