Haslam, McWherter to Debate on Oct. 7 at UT Knoxville

Gubernatorial candidates Bill Haslam and Mike McWherter will debate on 
Thursday, Oct. 7, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Sponsored by WBIR, the News Sentinel and the University of Tennessee and its 
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, the debate begins at 8 p.m. in the 
Cox Auditorium in the Alumni Memorial Building on the UT Knoxville campus.

The debate is free and open to the public. For media credentialing information, 
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Free parking will be available in Staff Lot 9 on Phillip Fulmer Way, across the 
street from the building.

The election will take place on Nov. 2, and the two-week early voting period 
begins Oct. 13. McWherter, the Democratic Party nominee, is a businessman; 
Haslam, the Republican, is the mayor of Knoxville.

During this debate, the candidates will face questions from a panel featuring 
Hallerin Hilton Hill, radio talk show host on News/Talk 98.7 WNOX and television 
talk show host of “Anything is Possible” on WBIR-TV; Tom Humphrey, Nashville 
bureau chief for the Knoxville News Sentinel and author of the knoxnews.com 
blog, “Humphrey on the Hill;” and a UT student. WBIR anchors John Becker and 
Robin Wilhoit will emcee the debate and provide the candidates with some 
questions solicited from viewers.

The first debate was held Sept. 14 in Cookeville; the third gubernatorial 
debate, on Oct. 9 in Memphis, is being sponsored by WREG, the Memphis 
Commercial Appeal and MPACT Memphis.

If you have a question you’d like the candidates to answer, send it to 
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