Candidate Forum Scheduled for Thursday

Democratic and Republican candidates for Alexandria City Council are invited to attend a Thursday evening forum focused on “issues important to working people,” according to a flyer promoting the event.

The two-hour forum is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at and is presented by the Democratic Latino Organization of Virginia, the Alexandria chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New Latino Movement, Tenants and Workers United and the Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations.

TWU and the Alexandria NAACP were involved in organizing intended to bring awareness to policy issues currently being debated in City Hall, including the Beauregard Small Area Plan, amending the Alexandria taxi code and increasing access to affordable healthcare.

Real-time Spanish translation will provided for forum attendees on Thursday night.

According to the New Latino Movement website, Democratic City Council candidates Victoria Menjivar, John Chapman, Boyd Walker, Melissa Feld, Sammie Moshenberg, Allison Silberberg, Justin Wilson and independent mayoral candidate Andrew Macdonald are confirmed attendees.

On Wednesday, the Alexandria Democratic Committee will hold the first of its at . Bob Gibson, executive director of the Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia, will serve as the moderator.

A total of 14 Democrats—Donna Fossum, Michael Hepburn, Sean Holihan, Tim Lovain, Arthur Peabody, Del Pepper, Paul Smedberg, Menjivar, Chapman, Walker, Feld, Moshenberg, Silberberg and Wilson—are running for six nominations. The citywide Democratic primary is scheduled for June 12.

The Republicans are running in the General Election.

On April 18, the Taylor Run Civic Association .

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