{"id":33290,"date":"2011-10-26T03:46:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=33290"},"modified":"2011-10-26T03:48:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:48:53","slug":"a-real-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/10\/a-real-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"A real debate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33291\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 175px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33291\" title=\"BlogPic2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BlogPic21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heath Haussamen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>True debates \u2013 as opposed to bland forums \u2013 are rare in politics these days, so it was refreshing to see the Las Cruces mayoral candidates engage in a real live debate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>We tailored questions to individual candidates, who didn\u2019t get to see them beforehand. They had opportunities to rebut each others\u2019 responses, and to rebut the rebuttals.<\/p>\n<p>What resulted was a lively, quick debate in which the candidates answered most of the questions they were asked and engaged in some back-and-forth dialogue that was at times colorful. They argued about the veracity of each other\u2019s statements and pointed fingers at each other, but also found some common ground.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the panelists asking questions of the candidates, I enjoyed being part of an event I believe will help voters make a more educated decision when they vote early or on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the debate, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/10\/watch-the-cruces-mayoral-debate-join-the-liveblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to watch the archived video, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfoxtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KFOX-TV<\/a>. Read my analysis of the debate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/10\/rivals-must-focus-on-why-the-mayor-needs-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to KFOX and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> for hosting the debate, and for including NMPolitics.net in the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/haussamen\" target=\"_blank\">Haussamen bio<\/a>\u00a0\u2502\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/heath-haussamen\" target=\"_blank\">Commentary page<\/a>\u00a0\u2502\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/category\/haussamen-columns\/feed\" target=\"_blank\">Feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True debates \u2013 as opposed to bland forums \u2013 are rare in politics these days, so it was refreshing to see the Las Cruces mayoral candidates engage in a real live debate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,10],"tags":[145,214,137],"class_list":["post-33290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-haussamen-columns","tag-las-cruces","tag-las-cruces-election","tag-news-about-this-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290","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=33290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}