What a Difference Two Years Makes For Minnick on Debates

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"Two years ago Walt Minnick asked his opponent to agree to 10 Town Hall meetings in Idaho, all I am asking him to do is remember his statements from 2008 and honor his word about the few debates he promised to do with me," says Raul Labrador

Republican Congressional candidate Raul Labrador today demanded Democrat Walt Minnick honor his campaign commitment to debate him on KTVB-TV, which he cancelled yesterday. He also called on him to review his own words on the subject of debates issued on May 28th of 2008, as reported in The Spokesman-Review, when he challenged his opponent to a series of ten debates across the district.

Minnick was then reported as saying, "Congress faces complex problems from health care to education and voters need to hear where the candidates stand on them, well beyond 30-second sound bites or scripted TV commercials."

Minnick's quotes, reported by Betsy Russell concluded, "I know it would help the voters of Idaho…I think democracy would work a whole lot better if they could talk directly to the candidates."

Based on these comments, Raul Labrador issued the following statement: "What a difference two years makes; it was all the time it took for Walt Minnick to become a fat cat Washington insider who shows nothing but contempt for the voters of Idaho and for his own previously held values. Washington has tainted Walt Minnick and it's time for the voters of Idaho to send him into retirement. But before he goes I am asking him to honor his word and stop canceling the few opportunities voters will have to hear both candidates debate and discuss where they stand on the issues."

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