Howard Dean, former Democratic National Committee chairman, and Karl Rove, former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to former President George W. Bush, will debate current events tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Macky Auditorium.
Doors for the sold-out event, which will be moderated by CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano, will open at 6:45 p.m. CU-Boulder’s student-run Distinguished Speakers Board is sponsoring the event.
Rove and Dean will debate various topics, including health care and education reform. Questions addressed to both speakers during the debate will be randomly selected from e-mail suggestions sent to the Distinguished Speakers Board at cudsb@colorado.edu.
A live broadcast of the event also will be available in the University Memorial Center’s Glenn Miller Ballroom. Tickets to the UMC event are free and will be available at 6:45 p.m. on Monday at the Glenn Miller Ballroom and Macky Auditorium.
Up-to-date information on the event is available at castle.colorado.edu/dsb.
Photography and video without sound will be permitted for the first five minutes of the debate from the designated media section in the balcony of Macky Auditorium, as well as at the live broadcast at the UMC.
Dean served as governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. While chairman he created and employed the 50-state strategy with the goal of making Democrats competitive in usually conservative states.
A physician with a medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dean also made an unsuccessful run for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.
A longtime Republican political strategist, Rove is often credited with helping in the successful presidential campaigns of 2000 and 2004. He also is credited with helping guide former President George W. Bush to a win in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election.
Since leaving the White House in 2007, Rove has worked as a commentator and contributor for several media outlets, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. His book Courage and Consequence is scheduled for publication in March.
