SEQUIM — Rep. Norm Dicks and Doug Cloud will face off in their first debate of the general election Wednesday.
The debate, hosted by the League of Women Voters of Clallam County, will be from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sequim Community Church, 950 N. Fifth St., Sequim.
Doors will open at 1:30 p.m. for the debate, which is free and open to the public.
Dicks, a Democrat from Belfair who has served since 1976 as the representative of the 6th Congressional District — which includes the North Olympic Peninsula — is being challenged in the Nov. 2 general election by Cloud, a Gig Harbor Republican.
Mail-in ballots for the Nov. 2 general election will be sent to registered voters Wednesday.
Dicks’ spokesman, George Behan, confirmed Thursday that Dicks will attend the debate.
Questions can be submitted now via e-mail from the league’s website, www.LWVCLA.org.
Half of the questions presented to the candidates will be drawn from e-mailed questions, and the other half will be gleaned from the audience that attends the debate, said Laura Lanka, league spokeswoman.
Each candidate will have the opportunity to answer each question.
League member Cathy Claney will serve as moderator.
Dicks, 69, is the second-ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee and is a member of two appropriations subcommittees — Defense, and Interior and Environment.
Cloud, a lawyer, unsuccessfully ran against Dicks in 2006 and 2008.
The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization.
This debate is co-sponsored by the American Association of University Women, radio station KONP and the Sequim Gazette.