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This page is reserved for information about the LWV of MD candidate forums for the 2026 General election.
NEWS:
https://drive.google.com/.../12b-93Glg7xceJEpuqGe.../view...
Our forums are still in process. All forums are live streamed to our YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/@frederickcountylwv313/streams), and links to the recordings are also made available on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/FrederickCountyLWV/), and on this page soon after the forum.
Here is a list of forums still to come:
September 23 at 6:00 pm. County Council At Large: Candidates: Renee Knapp, D, Jack Felton, R, Diane Fouche, R. Tiffany Grant had prior commitment.
September 29, 7:00 pm. School Board: Casey Day, Heather Fletcher, Rae Gallagher, Shelley Potter, Dean Rose, Geoffrey Seidel, Tyler Walker, Chad King Wilson, Sr.
October 6, 6:00 pm. County Executive: Jessica Fitzwater, William J. Holtzinger.
Tentatively, October 13, time TBD. State Senate District 3: Candidates: Karen Lewis Young, Shelley Alloi, with State Representative Delegate D3: Candidates: Kris Fair, Ken Kerr, Karen Simpson, Angela McIntosh.
Tentatively, October 15, time TBD. State Senate District 4: Candidates: Lara Westdrop, William "Bill" Folden, with State Representative Delegate D4: Candidates: Jerry Donald, Andrew Duck, Alleria Stanley, Jason E. Keckler, April Fleming Miller, Jesse T. Pippy.
Tentatively, October 21, time TBD. US Congressional Representative D6: April McClain Delaney, D, Robin Ficker, R, Moshe Y. Landman, Green.
Here are the forums we have hosted so far, with the direct link to the video on YouTube:
County Council D4: Candidates: Kavonte Duckett, Chaz Packan. September 9, 6:00 pm. https://youtu.be/yUOB6jxEvqo?t=9
County Council D3: Candidates: Christian Benford, Tammie Baugher. September 10, 6:30 pm. https://youtu.be/NjeXTIoRLFI?t=5
County Council D5: Candidates: Mason Carter and Johnny Mercer. Monday, September 14 at 6:30 pm. https://youtu.be/ON0dzMKtt_E
Our local is not hosting these forums, but we will direct you to any information we receive about any forum that is done by the League of Women Voters for these Districts:
State Senate District 5: Candidates: Gary Foote, D, Justin Ready, R.
State Representative Delegate D2- A (two D2A forums?) John D. Leonard, D, Brandon Thompson, D, William Valentine, R, William J. Wivell, R.
State Representative Delegate D5: Candidaates: Dayana Bergman, D Alison Rudolph, D, Courtney Alexa Welch, D, April R. Rose, R, Chris Tomlinson, R, Steve Whisler, R
These forums have been cancelled because we did not have more than one candidate accepting our invitation.
County Council D1: Cancelled – Republican candidate unavailable. Candidates: Louisa Conklin, D, Frank Hollewa, R.
County Council D2: Cancelled – Republican candidate unavailable. Candidates: Jamie Shopland, D, Dan Iampieri, R.
Sheriff: Karl Bickel, D, Chuck Jenkins, R. Cancelled - Both candidates declined invitation.
These forums take a lot of work. Many nonpartisan organizations have partnered with us to bring these to you for your information this year. But like the Voters' Guide we produce, if a candidate does not respond to our invitation to provide you with answers to questions, we cannot make them. Where that leaves us with only one candidate, we feel having a forum for that remaining candidate may be percieved as partisan, so there will be no forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Frederick County where there is only one candidate willing to participate.
However, we are committed to helping voters find information. We have asked in our invitations for any information a candidate can provide us with a link to a recorded forum that they would like our voters to see. We are also searching for such links ourselves. We will share those links whether the producers are nonpartisan nonprofits or not. Where those have occurred, they will be posted by the date published. We will also try to find similar information about the races when we are not scheduling forums. If you have any such information about recordings, please send the links to lwvoffc [at] gmail.com.
Finally, if you want to hear specific questions answered by these candidates, please submit your questions using the form https://forms.gle/KR3vounb4gx1Txjj6. We may rewrite the question into a nonpartisan form, and we will have to fit questions into the time scheduled for each forum, but we will try to use as many as we can.
