Illinois’ 12th Congressional District Debate Tonight

WKMS | By The Associated Press,

Dave Shinall

Published August 15, 2012 at 9:31 AM CDT

Voters in Southern Illinois’ 12^th Congressional District will have their first chance to see the three candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives go toe to toe tonight in Carbondale. The candidates' debate is scheduled for 7 p.m. and features Republican Jason Plummer, Democrat Bill Enyart and the Green Party's Paula Bradshaw. The event will be at WSIU-TV on the Southern Illinois University campus. Reporters from The Belleville News-Democrat, the Southern Illinoisan and WSIU will moderate. The three candidates are vying to succeed Democrat Jerry Costello, who is retiring after almost ten years in office. Two other debates are planned. One is set for Sept. 20 in Marion. The other will be Oct. 3 in Belleville.

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Dave is a retired Army tank platoon sergeant. During Desert Storm, he helped overrun a Republican Guard bunker complex in Iraq's Euphrates Valley. In the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, he commanded a mountaintop UN Preventive Deployment Force observation post on the Macedonian frontier with Serbia. In Bavaria, he served as news director at the American Forces Network radio station in Wurzburg, on special duty assignment from December 1981 to March 1984. He's a 2003 magna cum laude graduate of Western Kentucky University.

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