There may be fireworks tonight in Guntersville...but these fireworks may come from the House District 27 race.

A Political Forum is scheduled for 6:30 PM at Guntersville Town Hall.

Will Ainsworth (R) and Jeff McLaughlin (D) will take questions from the audience and discuss issues pertaining to District 27 and the State of Alabama.

Ainsworth has made his focus bringing jobs to District 27, continuing ethics reform and fighting liberal policies being passed down from Washington.

Ainsworth is the founder and operator of Guntersville’s Dream Ranch Lodge, one of the most recognized and respected hunting destinations in the United States. In addition to the ranch, he also operates a commercial cattle farm. He and his brother, Austin, also founded the Tennessee Valley Hunting and Fishing Expo, which has grown into one of the largest trade shows of its kind in the southeast with more than 30,000 attendees annually.

McLaughlin served in the legislature for almost a decade before being defeated by Wes Long (R) in 2010.

"I've been to Montgomery and seen the games played down there an know how to stay out of those games..."

- Jeff McLaughlin

McLaughlin taught high school history, government, and biology for four years in Birmingham and spent a year at Trinity College in Ireland on a Rotary Fellowship before going to law school at Harvard in 1990. After practicing in Birmingham as a law clerk for Federal Judge Seybourn Lynne and also at the law firm of Maynard Cooper & Gale, he returned home in 1995 to open up his own law practice.

This forum should pit two contrasting ideologies and be anything but a dull watch.

House District 27 contains Marshall County and parts of Geraldine, Fyffe and Grove Oak.