(Greenville-AP) Dec. 3, 2003 - The South Carolina
Democratic Party says Furman University will co-host the
January 29th Democratic presidential
debate.
The party
will invite the private liberal arts school to help
organize the debate. The event will be aired nationally
five days before the state's first-in-the-South
presidential primary.
"NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw is set to
moderate the debate at the Peace Center's 2,100-seat
concert hall in downtown
Greenville.
Party
Chairman Joe Erwin had passed over Furman's campus as
the site of the debate because Greenville County does
not honor the Martin Luther King Junior
holiday.
Erwin
says holding the debate at the university would put the
party in an uncomfortable position. The school is in an
unincorporated part of Greenville
County.
The City
of Greenville honors the holiday for the slain civil
rights leader.
Posted 10:00pm by Eva
Pilgrim
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