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| A full house watches and listens to the candidates |
The forum was taped in front of a live audience -- a full house -- at the Higher Calling Ministries church in in Upper Marlboro. All nine candidates representing both the Democratic and Republican parties participated. Students from two local high schools were also on hand to ask questions of the candidates.
The Candidates Forum is now airing on the PGCTV Government Channel (Comcast Ch. 70 / Verizon Ch. 42). The remaining air times for this week are 8:30 p.m. through Friday. Future air dates and times are forthcoming and will be updated here. The event will also be posted in Gamma Pi Chapter's YouTube page until the special election on June 3.
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| Bro. Jason Crump |
The Brothers of Gamma Pi had a big hand in this community event from the planning to the execution to the media coverage.
It started with Gamma Pi's Bro. Jason Crump, Esq., who founded the local Divine 9 (D-9) organization, spearheaded the idea to organize the debate through the D-9 group. Jack and Jill of America. Inc. was also involved in sponsoring the program.
While Bro. Crump led from the stage as the host and as a co-moderator with Tamara Davis Brown, esq., of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., three Gamma Pi Brothers manned all three PGCTV cameras recording the broadcast -- William Lloyd, Jeffrey Edwards and Anthony Boyd.
"The success of the candidates forum just goes to show the amazing synergy that is created when our Black Greek Letter organizations work collaboratively," said Crump. "The whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts."
Gamma Pi's Public Relations Committee, of which Brothers Lloyd, Edwards and Boyd are members, also played a role in the televising of the forum. The committee used its longstanding relationship with PGCTV to arrange with the station for the on-site recording and rebroadcasting of the two-hour 21-minute program for on-demand access. PGCTV has taped and broadcasted Gamma Pi's Community UPLIFT public affairs show since 2016.
Candidates: Rushern Baker III, Aisha Braveboy, Marcellus Crews, Calvin S. Hawkins, Jr., Ron Hunt, George McDermott, Albert Slocum, Tonya Sweat, Alonzo T. Washington, The event was shared with the larger DMV community. The following local TV news channels and newspaper covered the forum:
Photos by Bro. George DuBose
Gamma Pi's William Lloyd mans a camera in a Fox 5 report
Candidates Aisha Braveboy and Rushern Baker onstage
Candidate Calvin Hawkins
A wide view of all the candidates onstage
Co-Moderator Davis Brown
Students got a chance to ask questions
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