US Senator Robert Menendez, trailing in the polls to NJ Senator Tom Kean Jr, has challenged Kean to a televised debate by the end of this month. WNBC-TV in New York has offered to host the debate on Sunday June 25.
No one except campaign workers and Gabe Pressman's great grandchildren will watch this proposed live debate, but, Menendez hopes, millions will watch the clips of a Kean gaffe or stutter that the Menendez campaign will blast over the air waves in commercials.
The Kean campaign has rightly called the challenge a stunt, but sound like they might fall for it anyway.
Don't take da bait Tom. Use the summer to press the flesh with the voters throughout the state. Refine your message and your delivery of such. Get comfortable in front of TV cameras. Spend several hours a week in debate preparation. Then debate the Hudson County Boss in October when the voters are paying attention and when you are prepared to deliver a knock out.
UPDATE
Kean has accepted the challenge and will debate Menendez three times in June, once on WNBC, once on NJN, and once on Philadephia station CBS-3.
Let Me Count the Ways
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How about Ginty !!
Ginty for Senate
ON TUESDAY JUNE 6th VOTE John P. Ginty
Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate
*He is the only Reagan conservative!!!!
A little bit about him...
* Bergen County Republican Committeeman, 1998 to present
* Ridgewood Republican Club president, 1999-2003
* Financial Data analyst at a major New York City-based publishing company
* U.S. Navy, submarine force, 1988-1993
* University of Notre Dame (1988), University of Chicago Business School (1995), Rutgers Law School (2003)
On the Issues...
* Supports the establishment of Border Security, opposes any proposed "amnesty" program for illegal aliens
* Supports Marriage Protection Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
* 100% Pro-Life
* Opposes embryonic stem cell research or experimentation
* Supports the elimination of federal government involvement in education and the abolition of the federal Department of Education
* Supports the War on Terror
* Supports all provisions of the U.S. Constitution, including the Second Amendment
* Supports the presidential line-item veto
* Supports making the Bush tax cuts permanent
* Supports the incremental creation of Social Security private accounts for younger workers
* Favors unrestricted availability of Health Savings Accounts (HSA's) to American workers
* Supports a strong Patriot Act
* Supports the appointment of federal judges who will interpret the Constitution as written by the Founders
* Opposes reference to foreign law by American judges in any federal legal case concerning the interpretation of the US Constitution
* Opposes International Criminal Court jurisdiction over American military personnel under any circumstances
* Opposes the UN-sponsored Law of the Sea Treaty
In the unlikely event that Ginty beats TK2 in the primary, it is even less likely that Senator Menendez will debate him in June, if at all
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