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December 28, 2007 - 11:44pm
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Behind the Merkley-Novick debate negotiations
By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com ReporterWillamette Week takes a quick look at the back-and-forth between the Merkley and Novick camps over debates.
Novick campaign manager Jake Weigler tells the paper: “We’ve been going back and forth for a month and a half. The secretary of state candidates are already doing joint appearances and we’re wasting time.”
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I'm sorry, but where does it say in the WWeek piece that the campaign objected to having all candidates included? An earlier Oregonian article quoted Candy Neville as saying she felt she was invited to at least some of them, and in fact she is invited to the first two proposed debates, in Pendleton and Eugene. Anything after that may be up to the sponsors of the debates--which I think is pretty normal. Don't even the League of Women Voters decide who to invite and who to not?
That same Oregonian article has the Novick campaign explicitly welcoming all candidates, so where is this assertion coming from, I wonder?
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