by John Dankosky –
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I’ll admit to being confused by the back-and-forths over gubernatorial and lieutenant-gubernatorial debates leading up to the Democratic primary August 10. Ned Lamont turns down a New London debate with Dan Malloy on July 27th, only to have his running mate, Mary Glassman pitch a “four-way” debate between her and Nancy Wyman and the two guys at the top of the ballots (her campaign says that that’s not really what she meant.) It’s been no secret that Glassman is eager to debate Wyman leading up to the LG primary…and that Lamont has been equally nonchalant about the idea of debating Malloy again.
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Either way, Where We Live is coming to the rescue. On Monday, July 26th, from 9-10 a.m. we’ll host a live debate between Lieutenant Governor candidates Mary Glassman and Nancy Wyman. We won’t have listener call-in, because we’ll be sticking to more of a “debate” format, but if you have questions for the candidates, post them here – or email wherewelive@wnpr.org, tweet us @wherewelive, or leave them on our Facebook page. The program will also be taped by CT-N for future broadcast. Kevin Rennie expects there to be a bit of heat in the exchange, and folks like The Bristol Press have begun to let people know it’s happening.
Show listeners might recall that Glassman has some experience with this format – she took on Michael Fedele on Where We Live during the general election in 2006, when she was running with John DeStefano. It was the only debate between Lt. Governor candidates that year.
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Who cares what the Lientanant Governor candidates have to say?
First question comes from Abby Anderson: The Lt. Gov’s position hasn’t seemed very relevant in the past, with one early candidate for the position even calling for itss extinction as a way to save the state money. Why is the Lt. Gov.’s position one that matters and what kind of Lt. Gov do you plan to be that will make it a more meaningful post than it has been in the past?
When did the candidates agree to the debate?
The two candidates’ campaigns confirmed their attendance late yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. It had, however, been in the works for a while…
Thanks, John.
I read the headline quickly and thought Linda McMahon and the WWE had arranged a steel-cage death match. Now that would be interesting. Glassman has the youth but Wyman is wiry and watch out for those high heels!
it will be great if they are debatting..
LMAO! Yeah get them dam bats outta here!
Are you talking about baseball bats or those cute little furry flying mammals?
Oooops, silly me I got caught hook, line and sinker by a spammer. DO NOT click the link in his name, it brings you to a spam site where you’ll probably catch a virus. My anti-virus software just went nuts when I tried that.
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