Greg Hopkins, Republican candidate to represent the 50th District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, faced 30-year incumbent Bill DeWeese Monday, Oct. 9, in the Waynesburg High School Auditorium. The bipartisan open-forum was sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Each candidate was given time for an opening and closing statement and 90 seconds to answer questions created by audience members. A crowd of approximately 150 watched in anticipation as Hopkins and DeWeese took their seats. DeWeese replied by criticizing President George W. Bush, a tactic often unpopular in rural America.