LEWISTON — The two remaining candidates for mayor will discuss the issues at a Nov. 28 public forum and debate hosted by the Sun Journal and the Lewiston Public Library.
City voters will go to the polls again Dec. 13 to elect either Mark Paradis or Robert Macdonald mayor.
“The two candidates are very different so voters will have a real choice in who they elect,” said Rex Rhoades, executive editor of the Sun Journal. “We hope this debate will offer a chance for voters to see those differences.”
The debate and forum is scheduled from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Nov. 28 at the Lewiston Public Library before a live audience. It also will be streamed live over the Internet on sunjournal.com, the Sun Journal’s Web page, and recorded for later showing on Great Falls TV.
Sunjournal.com will also host a live blog during the debate where users can discuss the debate as it unfolds.
During the mayoral campaign, Paradis made promoting economic development a key part of plans for the city, should he win. Macdonald said he hopes to make Lewiston stronger by making the city less reliant on welfare and public assistance and by reducing old and failing apartment tenements downtown.
Paradis and Macdonald were the top two vote-getters in a field of five candidates at the polls last week.
Unofficial returns show that Paradis got the most votes, with 2,967 — about 32 percent of the ballots cast for mayor. Macdonald was a close second, with 2,852. Macdonald’s votes amounted to about 31 percent of the ballots cast for mayor.
Lewiston rules require that a mayor get at least 50 percent of the votes cast, plus one vote. City rules require a runoff, since neither candidate picked up enough votes.
If you have a question you’d like the Sun Journal to ask the candidates, please send the question by email to rrhoades@sunjournal.com with “mayor debate” in the subject line, or by regular mail to Sun Journal, Mayor Debate, 104 Park St., Lewiston, ME 04243.
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