24 Congressional Candidates Debate in Front of Area Students

By Nate Crossett

Story Created: Oct 25, 2006 at 3:05 PM EST

Story Updated: Oct 25, 2006 at 5:07 PM EST

A congressional debate, almost entirely organized by students, will take place at New Hartford High School tonight. The debate's format will be similar to those you've seen before but with one exception. The questions were written by students.

Most of these students aren't old enough to vote right now. However, they will be one day, and they're taking their early political concerns to the debate.

"Voting bloc is the least represented voting bloc," says Harrison Landry, who is involved in the debate. "So hopefully this will get high school students in our school and around the area involved in the political process."

"A lot of the decisions they make, and a lot of their ideals are important values to us as a community," says Ngoc Nguyen. "If we can't understand or become involved in that, then everything else that we do isn't really that important anymore."

The debate, which begins at 7 p.m. in the New Hartford High School gymnasium, is free and open to the public.
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