The states largest university served as the forum on Sunday night, five out of the six candidates to fill the late senate seat left by the late Senator Ted Kennedy.
The Bowker Auditorium on the UMass campus was the site as the candidates answered many questions on the minds of voters.
Straight out of the gate the first question was how to boost the economy in the commonwealth and create jobs for voters in our state.
"The best way to do that is with targeted tax cuts, and specifically my idea is to eliminate the capital gains tax on all investments made in 2010, what that will do is release trillions of dollars in new investment, new businesses will start, existing businesses will hire more workers and we will be out of the recession," said Robinson/

Republican Jack E. Robinson runs on the slogan Jack for Jobs, the Roxbury native cites a failed stimulus plan as part of the problem, something Michael Capuano, Democratic Representative from the Eight District disagrees with.
"I'm not gonna say the stimulus was perfect, because of course it wasn’t, in Washington get used to it guys it’s not perfect you have to make compromises, there are certain things in the stimulus I would have done, and I did. I tried, if I could have been emperor I would have created more jobs in this commonwealth and more jobs across this company to get people back to work," said Capuano.
Republican State Senator Scott Brown took the chance to criticize Governor Patrick, and take the argument local
"We just had the soldiers home cut by over a million dollars and we begged the governor to not make that 9c cut, and we asked him to take some of that stimulus money to save the people the soldiers that are hurting, that liver there and need us the most and it feel on deaf ears," said Brown.
One candidate not in attendance, Democratic entrepreneur Alan Khazei didn’t let that slide.
"I think it’s too bad that Attorney General Coakley decided not to join us tonight and the League of Women Voters here in Western Massachusetts, this is a big senate seat there are critical issues facing you the citizen voters of Massachusetts, I think Attorney General Coakley should be here, I hope she'll take up the challenge, we should have four more televised debates, " said Khazei.
Round up the panel, Democratic Stephen Pagliuca cited his business savvy as the reason to vote him in.
"I believe I have the strongest, the Boston globe cited my plan as the boldest to fix this situation, this situation should have already been fixed we have it for thirteen months now, they are still doing credit default swaps, there are still predatory lending going on and we really need to move quickly to fix that situation," said Pagliuca.
It’s probably the last time to catch all these candidates together in Western Massachusetts before the Primary election set for December 8th.