| Democratic Debate Location |
| 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. The debate will be moderated at the Peace Center's 21-hundred-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. However, the city of Greenville honors the holiday for the slain civil rights leader. |