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© St. Petersburg Times, published September 3, 2002
SEMINOLE -- Six of the seven Democratic and Republican candidates for attorney general plan to arrive in Pinellas County on Wednesday for a debate that will later be televised, organizers said.
In an unusual format, the four Democratic candidates as well as two of the three Republicans will be present at the same debate.
Democratic and Republican voters will elect their parties' nominees for attorney general one week from today, on Sept. 10.
Nonetheless, about seven in 10 Democrats were undecided about who to vote for in the attorney general's primary, according to a joint St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald poll published Sunday.
"I think that's the whole point," said Craig Patrick, marketing director for the Clearwater law firm of Perenich, Carroll, Perenich, Avril & Caulfield, one of the debate's sponsors.
The debate will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the University Partnership Center of St. Petersburg College's Seminole campus, 9200 113th Street N, Seminole. The debate will be in a room called the Digitorium. The event will be taped and broadcast on WEDU-TV Ch. 3 during a block of political programming from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday and from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Organizers said all four Democratic candidates are scheduled to appear. They are: Buddy Dyer, Walter Dartland, Scott Maddox and George Sheldon.
Two of the three Republican candidates, Locke Burt and Tom Warner, plan to attend. Organizers said they await final word from another Republican candidate, Charlie Crist.