The Tompkins County Democratic Committee held a presidential forum last night in the Women’s Community Building in anticipation of the New York State Primary on Feb. 5. The forum featured representatives of the four Democratic candidates in a proxy debate in which they explained and defended their respective candidate’s stances on numerous issues.
Standing before the assembled audience of Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), Senator Hilary Clinton (D-N.Y.), former senator John Edwards and Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) supporters, J.R. Clairborne, a member of the Ithaca Common Council and the moderator of the forum, expressed the importance of the evening’s event and the upcoming elections.