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August 17, 2006

Seats available for next week's Chafee-Laffey debate

PROVIDENCE -- The general public can reserve seats to the Aug. 23 debate between Republican Senate opponents U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee and challenger Stephen P. Laffey, which is being co-sponsored by The Providence Journal.

The debate, also co-sponsored by WPRI-TV, will be broadcast live and commercial free at 8 p.m. on WPRI (Channel 12) and be picked up by C-SPAN.

To attend, e-mail your full name, address and daytime phone number to debates06@projo.com by noon tomorrow.

Requests also can be mailed or dropped off to The Providence Journal, 75 Fountain Street, Providence, R.I., 02902, c/o Promotion.

Reservations are limited to 200 seats and two names per request. Registrants will be notified by phone on Monday.

The candidates are also scheduled to debate from 5 to 6 p.m. today on The Dan Yorke Show on WPRO (630-AM), their second live debate.

Posted by Jack Perry  at 1:59 PM | Permalink

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