{"id":21117,"date":"2010-08-31T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=21117"},"modified":"2011-10-10T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T17:26:35","slug":"mccamley-hall%e2%80%99s-refusal-to-debate-is-%e2%80%98a-shame%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/mccamley-hall%e2%80%99s-refusal-to-debate-is-%e2%80%98a-shame%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"McCamley: Hall\u2019s refusal to debate is \u2018a shame\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19525\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19525\" title=\"McCamley, Bill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/McCamley-Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill McCamley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>District 5 Public Regulation candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmccamley.com\/\">Bill McCamley<\/a> says he\u2019s disappointed that his opponent is refusing to debate him several times before the Nov. 2 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shame that Mr. (Ben) Hall is refusing to interact with me. A series of debates would have educated the public both about the PRC and where we stand on its issues,\u201d McCamley said in a news release. \u201cIf he won\u2019t engage with me during the campaign, what does that say about his ability to be effective in Santa Fe, where there is a constant need to communicate and converse in order to protect the public?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stand ready to discuss creating accountability and trust at the PRC with him should he change his mind,\u201d McCamley said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benhall.us\/\">Hall<\/a>, the Republican in the race, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/hall-refuses-to-debate-mccamley\/\">rejected the challenge<\/a> from McCamley, the Democrat, to jointly appear at 10 forums across the district this month and next month.<\/p>\n<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>Hall didn\u2019t give a reason in his letter for rejecting McCamley\u2019s challenge. But he did say he can \u201cinteract with the public and inform them of my background, knowledge of issues and my experience thru my web site, e-mail and the many forms of media that are available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his news release, McCamley pointed to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.alamogordonews.com\/rough_writer\/2010\/08\/let-the-debates-begin-or-not.html\">a blog posting<\/a> in which the editor of the Alamogordo Daily News wrote, \u201cMcCamley has visited with me personally &#8211; in my office &#8211; three times and talked with my reporters several more times at various events. Hall has not contacted me or any of my editorial staff<br \/>\nat the Daily News &#8211; not even through the many forms of aforementioned media he cites to McCamley.\u201d<\/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 candidate Bill McCamley says he\u2019s disappointed that his opponent is refusing to debate him several times before the election.<\/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-21117","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\/21117","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=21117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}