Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Arizona Daily Star took up my challenge to use some of its campaign advertising windfall to host a debate for the U.S. Senate race, but Rep. Jeff Flake is hiding in the bunker and refuses to debate Dr. Richard Carmona.
The Star today says it has provided six dates in early October for a debate to be consponsored by the Tohono O'odham Nation at its Desert Diamond Casino. So Flake did not just diss the Star, but is dissing the Tohono O'odham Nation as well. Stay classy you Flake.
The Star reports that both campaigns confirm that there is only one "debate" scheduled for this race, a half-hour candidate conversation on Horizon (PBS) in Phoenix on October 10, from the safe confines of the studio without an audience, and a host who never asks a tough question. I can't stand these PBS candidate conversations.
The Senate candidates ought to agree to get on a bus and go on a town hall tour around the state to be hosted by the local media and civic groups at each stop. Face questions from the voters in a public forum. Give the voters a chance to get to know these candidates one-on-one.
Alas, this chickenshit Jeff Flake does not want to debate a decorated Vietnam war veteran, Pima County Sheriff deputy, trauma surgeon and the former Surgeon General of the United States. He knows that his record as a corporate lobbyist for foreign companies and as director of the ideologically extreme Goldwater Institute before a career in Congress for which his only notable claim to fame is his opposition to "earmarks" instead of bringing that bacon home to Arizona to create new jobs and infrastructure, will expose him as the right-wing ideologue that he is. Flake will look small and insignificant by comparison.
It's time to man up Mr. Flake and to take questions from the voters in town hall debates with your opponent, Dr. Richard Carmona. If you are unwilling and too afraid to do this, then you are unworthy of being a candidate for the U.S. Senate. You are undeserving of anyone's vote.
Time for the chicken suit to make an appearance at Flake's events.
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Neither Carmona nor Flake would debate Victor, they know they would lose.
http://www.VictorForSenate.com
In the ten years since October 7th, 2001 when Operation (so-called) Enduring Freedom was launched elected Democrats and elected Republicans have been by and large bipartisan in their efforts to put US soldiers in hazardous and deadly situations in Afghanistan.
11 years of War in Afghanistan – End It Now!, Saturday October 6th, 5:30 PM
24th Street & Camelback, Phoenix
http://www.facebook.com/events/417428548317580/
“….the safe confines of the studio without an audience, and a host who never asks a tough question.”
I disagree with you. I was in front of that host in 2010 and I think he asked good probing questions to all three candidates for State Treasurer. Perhaps he didn’t ask the questions you wanted in the fashion you wanted them asked.
http://www.azpbs.org/arizonahorizon/detail.php?id=1468
Apparently, The Flake is not a free-range chicken. He’s staying in the coop.
If he holes up long enough, maybe his ideological supporters won’t find out the truth, e.g. The Flake hopes veterans who think Republicans “support the troops” won’t find out that he votes against them consistently.
As someone who has two hens in his backyard, I feel that your calling Jeff Flake “chickenshit” maligns a product which is at least good fertilizer. In his long career in Congress, Flake has only *prevented* anything good from growing. And he wants to kill every good program we’ve got, like Medicare.
http://flake-medicare.blogspot.com/