{"id":20819,"date":"2010-08-23T10:28:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=20819"},"modified":"2011-10-10T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T17:26:55","slug":"prc-hopeful-will-respond-to-debate-challenge-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/prc-hopeful-will-respond-to-debate-challenge-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"PRC hopeful will respond to debate challenge this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20820\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20820\" title=\"Hall, Ben\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hall-Ben.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Hall<\/p><\/div>\n<p>District 5 Public Regulation Commission candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benhall.us\/\">Ben Hall<\/a> says he will respond Thursday to a challenge from his opponent to jointly appear at 10 forums across the district this month and next month.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmccamley.com\/\">Bill McCamley<\/a> issued the debate challenge to Hall, the Republican in the race, on Aug. 9 in an e-mail. Hall hasn\u2019t responded since, but he said today in a telephone interview with NMPolitics.net that he will be responding Thursday. He said he will be in Las Cruces on that day for an interview with the Las Cruces Sun-News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll have his answer Thursday,\u201d Hall said. \u201cI\u2019ll put it in the newspaper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hall gave no indication about how he will respond other than to say he isn\u2019t \u201cin a hurry\u201d to answer McCamley\u2019s challenge.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15181\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15181\" title=\"McCamley, Bill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/McCamley-Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill McCamley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t march to his drum, but I will be responding to it,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmprc.state.nm.us\/commissioner5.htm\">District 5<\/a> covers most of the southern and southwestern areas of the state. McCamley challenged Hall to appear with him at forums in Alamogordo, Belen or Los Lunas, Deming, Las Cruces, Lordsburg, Reserve, Ruidoso, Silver City, Socorro and Truth or Consequences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026since we are both participating in this election as publicly financed candidates with limited budgets for traditional campaign strategies, the opportunity to communicate directly with possible constituents in a thoughtful, meaningful, and detailed manner should be something we should seek with open arms,\u201d McCamley wrote in his e-mail to Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a number of years since anyone has participated in a comprehensive series of debates like this would be, and hopefully it would set a precedent for candidates in other races,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>As I\u2019ve disclosed in the past, I\u2019m friends with McCamley. Click <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/ethical-guidelines\/\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em> to read more about that.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>District 5 Public Regulation Commission candidate Ben Hall says he will respond Thursday to a challenge from his opponent to jointly appear at 10 forums across the district this month and next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,107],"class_list":["post-20819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}