Timing the Debates
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 01:13 PM
Carl Paladino can probably sympathize with what the League of Women Voters and Manhattan Neighborhood Networks is going through, as they try organizing debates for a bunch of local races. As Beth Fertig explains, it hasn't been so easy.
Fertig:
Bill Perkin’s campaign manager, Richard Fife, told me that Perkins’ campaign informed the League of Women Voters that they couldn’t do the debate last week. They had tentatively agreed but then had a previously scheduled commitment and asked if Manhattan Neighborhood Network could change the time (record in advance instead of live at 8:30, when he had the scheduling conflict) and they couldn’t.
I called LWV to confirm this story and they said yes, it was because of Perkins that they had to cancel. Ashton Stewart, executive director of the L.W.V., says Perkins’ campaign went from a yes to a maybe and they said they wanted it rescheduled and we just couldn’t do that.
Stewart said they had to cancel the 28th Democratic Senate District debate (Jose Serrano and Escoffery-Bey, who said he couldn’t participate) as well as Democratic Congressional District 14 (Maloney couldn’t make it).
One other cancellation, State Senate District 28 for Republicans also canceled on Friday because Keisha Weiner out of town.
They just canceled one for tonight, Assembly District 73. Gregg Lundahl – who’s challenging Jonathan Bing - never got back to the L.W.V.
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