"Are we ready to start?" asks Tim Gamache, who's president of the Federal Hill Association and apparently in charge of the forum tonight.
"I wouldn't leave those microphones on unless you're ready to speak. They pick up everything - everything," Gamache said.
Now he's introducing the event to the crowd of about 30, nearly all of whom are politicians or political people. The moderators are City Historian Bob Montgomery and David Fortier, the library board chairman.
Mike Saman is taping the forums for potential broadcast on Nutmeg Television sometime later. I'll fill you in on that whenever I know more.
The five candidates for the 2nd District are going to field three questions they've already seen and then take questions from the audience.
Questions will be on economic development, downtown and the school system. They're all pretty broad questions and, no doubt, will be answered broadly by most of the candidates: Republicans Ken Cockayne and Joe Geladino, independent Mark Blaschke, and Democrats Bruce Lydem and Kevin McCauley. McCauley is the only incumbent.
McCauley and Lydem are sitting beside each other to Montgomery's left while the other three are on Fortier's right. The moderators are in the middle.
All of the candidates are wearing dark suits except for Blaschke, who's earing a white Polo-type shirt. They all have a bottle of water in front of them.
In the audience are mayoral contenders Ken Johnson and Art Ward, among others. A few more people are trickling in, including a few I don't recognize.
The moderators are running through the candidates' backgrounds.
More later.
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