Apr 12 2008
Hagan Refuses Televised Debate
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan declined an invitation yesterday to participate in the only televised debate that her campaign was considering, frustrating her chief rival for the party’s nomination.
The campaign of Jim Neal responded sharply, saying that Hagan, a state senator from Greensboro, is trying to buy an election victory with television ads and is avoiding a discussion of the issues.
Why is Hagan afraid to meet Jim Neal in a televised forum? What is she running from? If she is not up to a televised debate in front of her would be constituents how does she expect to represent an entire state before the U.S. Senate?
Hagan’s campaign is claiming she will not participate because of the rules that leave out the other three candidates due to low polling. It is certainly a justified position that all candidates should be allowed to take part and have their issues heard, however is Hagan taking this stand on principle or out of reluctance to go head to head with Mr. Neal?
