Democrat Adelita Grijalva and Republican Dan Butierez will face off in a TV debate tonight in the race for congressional district 7.
The debate will be at 6 p.m. tonight. It will be broadcast live on Arizona Public Media and can be watched on Tucson.com.
It will also be livestreamed on Arizona Public Media's YouTube page.
The public will not be allowed to attend the debate, which is sponsored by the Arizona Media Association and the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission.
The congressional seat opened after Raúl Grijalva died in March. A special election was called shortly after.
Adelita Grijalva, daughter of the late Congressman, is a former Pima County Supervisor who cruised to victory in the July 15 Democratic primary, taking over 60% of the vote in what was a five-candidate primary.
Butierez, a painting company owner, challenged the late congressman last November in the general election. Like Grijalva, he too handedly won a three-way GOP primary by collecting about 60% of the vote.
The general election is set for Sept. 23. Two additional candidates — Eduardo Quintana, of Tucson, the Green Party candidate, and Richard Grayson, of Apache Junction, the No Labels candidate — will appear on the ballot, but they won't be part of tonight's televised debate.
Neither one of them got 1% of the total votes cast in the July 15 primary election. Under a rule adopted by the debate hosts neither was adopted to participate in the debate.
