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Thursday, August 30, 2012

2012 Rob McKenna Says He Wants More Debates, But the Inslee Campaign Says He's Ducked Out of Two of Them

Posted by on Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:11 PM

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Last night, during closing statements at the Rob McKenna-Jay Inslee debate, McKenna said:

Well, I’d like to thank Congressman Inslee and you, Brian. And the sponsors as well. This just has been terrific. We need more of these and it’s such a great opportunity.

How many more debates between the candidates are currently scheduled?

Only two.

One will be in Yakima on October 2, hosted by the Association of Washington State Hispanic Chambers of Commerce and KCTS. After that, there's going to be one more, in Seattle, on October 16, hosted by KING 5 and the Seattle Times.

According to the Inslee campaign, if McKenna really wants more debates he could have easily said yes to two more of them before the election: one in Tacoma in the last week of September, and another on Q13 on October 6.

"They backed out by saying the date for Tacoma conflicted with a Husky-Stanford game," said Jaime Smith, spokesperson for Jay Inslee, noting that the Tacoma event didn't have to be on one specific day, just sometime in the last week of September. And the reason they backed out of the other debate? "They said the Q13 debate wasn’t high-profile enough," Smith said.

I asked McKenna spokesman Charles McCray III for comment. No response yet.

 

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That's a pretty sharp dig at Q13, considering that last night's event was broadcast on channel 4.2, which fills the rest of its programming hours with reruns from the 1950s.

Oh wait, that's pretty much the Republican platform!
Posted by sevenless on August 30, 2012 at 1:22 PM
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Flacking for Inslee, you don't really want a response.
Posted by joel connelly on August 30, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Goldy 3
Joel @2, I think you are confused. This post was written by Eli, not me.
Posted by Goldy on August 30, 2012 at 1:34 PM
scary tyler moore 4
i read charles mccray iii as chatsworth osborn the third from dobey gillis. anybody else get that cognitive dissonance?
Posted by scary tyler moore http://pushymcshove.blogspot.com/ on August 30, 2012 at 1:45 PM
LEE. 5
that photo is really unsettling. it's like an unreasonable wax sculpture posed next to a preening, aging jock.
Posted by LEE. on August 30, 2012 at 11:22 PM

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