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Department of Lame Excuses

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Paul Gosar has shown himself to be eager to debate Ann Kirkpatrick, except when it comes to actually debating her. You may remember that after Gosar won his primary, Kirkpatrick challenged him to five debates. A bit over ambitious to be sure, but as of this morning that number has been reduced to zero. Gosar [...]

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McClung Backs Out of Debate

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Ruth McClung has backed out of a debate with Raúl Grijalva that was scheduled for Monday. You may remember that she made a big show of coming to Grijalva’s office (complete with a television camera) to challenge Grijalva to this particular debate, and her campaign largely agreed to the conditions set by Grijalva’s campaign. The [...]

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Duck and Cover

Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Weekly has unearthed an odd development in the District 26 Senate race: Al Melvin is hemming and hawing about debating his opponent, Cheryl Cage. He’s come up with a series of demands such as including the house candidates (which debate organizers know will make it into a cattle call rather than a real debate). [...]

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Glass Houses and So Forth

Monday, August 30, 2010

One of the dangers of oh-so-clever snark is when it can be thrown back at you. Paul Gosar is finding this out in his race against Ann Kirkpatrick. Gosar’s new attack is “Where Is Ann Kirkpatrick?” He’s alleging, of course, that Kirkpatrick is MIA. Kirkpatrick’s people put out a press release this morning detailing public [...]

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