CONWAY — Incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (D-Manchester) and Matt Mowers (R-Bedford) made their cases to voters in the Mount Washington Valley on why they are the right person hold the 1st Congressional District seat for the next two years when they took to the debate stage at Valley Vision (Channel 3) in North Conway on Thursday afternoon.
The 57-minute debate, sponsored by the Mt. Washington Valley Economic Council, moderated by longtime Madison Town Moderator George Epstein and live-streamed by Valley Vision on Facebook, was in stark contrast to one which occurred 19 hours earlier on WMUR (Channel 9). The two candidates were civil through out and not once interrupted the other.
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