Springfield City Club will host a forum for the candidates for House District 7. Their biographies at below. At this moment, the Republicans candidate, Cedric Hayden, is deployed as a wildland firefight in Butte county, California, and may not be able to appear. We are attempting to find an appropriate alternative if that remains the case.

We will have local leaders of the Black Unity Movement here on September 10 to discuss their message, mission, purpose and platform as it pertains to the social injustice issues that we are facing as communities across the nation. This is the organization that has led 3 of the recent protests here locally in Springfield. We want to increase dialogue and understanding of the challenges we are having around race and race relations here in our City. We will begin to do this by offering the Black Unity leadership an opportunity to engage our community in a reasoned and rational discussion, free of the impetus to shout slogans and march. We hope this will be just the beginning of a conversation involving all aspects of our community.