<p>GAINESVILLE, Fla. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., will speak at a town hall forum at the University of Florida on Sept. 17, sponsored by the ACCENT Speakers Bureau.</p>
<p>The forum will be held at noon in University Auditorium. Doors will open at 11 a.m. for advance ticket holders, who will be seated first. Any open seats will then be made available to those without tickets. Regular parking restrictions will remain in effect for this event.</p>
<p>Advance tickets will become available to students and the general public, starting Monday at the Phillips Center for Performing Arts and at the University Box Office. Tickets are free and will be issued on a first come, first serve basis. Only one ticket per person will be issued.</p>
<p>The structure of the forum will include remarks by Kerry followed by a moderated discussion with the senator about current affairs and policy.</p>
<p>Kerry has served as a senator from Massachusetts for 22 years and is currently the chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee. He has served for 19 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is a senior member of the Finance and Commerce committees. In addition, Kerry is an advocate of increasing national security, fighting global terrorism, and preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
Kerry was the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2004 election.</p>