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Alex Zaroulis calls on Brown to debate: BMG calls on Coakley to engage

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Hear hear!  The people want to hear hear the  candidates debate the issues of the day.  

In addition, some folks at the Blue Mass Group want Martha to engage with her fellow Democrats and get into the weeds a little bit on her positions with respect to civil rights and government authority. Martha, are you out there? You can find the thread here.

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  1. During the Democratic primary, all four candidates engaged in five debates on both radio and television.

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    p>Good enough for the primary, good enough for the general?

    • I am all for debates. I hope everyone is. But does it really matter?

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      p>Not to be a jerk, but I think we can all pretty much agree that this election was over last Tuesday night.

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      p>Like Neil said, why not use the media time to talk more with Martha? Personally, I’d like to get a little more out of her. I don’t think she opened up enough before the primary.

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      p>(I understand that the Republicans would create quite a stink, and it probably won’t happen, but that’s just how I feel.)

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      p>Also, don’t take that as a knock on Martha. It’s our responsibility as educated voters to know as much as we can about the people we choose to represent us in Washington.

      • Don’t take that as a knock on Martha. It’s our responsibility as educated voters to know as much as we can about the people we choose to represent us in Washington.
        – foreverdem

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        p>It will help her too if she sets reasonable expectations about her future voting.  She doesn’t need pushback at home from the base for taking conservative positions on government authority issues that she didn’t discuss during the campaign.

  2. As long as there is room for actual answers (rather than soundbites) they can be informative.  For the general election they should include every candidate who qualified for the ballot.

  3. In a campaign press release this afternoon, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Scott Brown announced that he had accepted seven invitations to debate before the January 19 special election, and challenged his Democratic opponent, Martha Coakley, to do the same.

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    The seven debate invitations Brown has accepted are:

    • December 22, 2009 at 7: 00 PM at WBZ-TV; debate to be broadcast on WBZ-TV at 8:00 AM on Sunday, December 27, 2009.
    • January 6, 2010 at 7:00 PM at WGBH, Boston – A debate sponsored by The Boston Globe, WGBH TV and Radio, New England Cable News and WBUR.
    • January 8, 2010 at 3:00 PM at WGBY Springfield – A debate sponsored by WGBY to be broadcast at 7:30 PM on Friday, January 8, 2010.
    • January 10, 2010 at 10:00 AM – A debate sponsored by WCVB News Center 5, The BostonChannel.com, CNN and The GateHouse/Wicked Local newspapers and websites.
    • January 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM at the University of Massachusetts, Boston – A debate sponsored by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.
    • January 13, 2010 at 7:00 PM at Boston’s Faneuil Hall – A debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.
    • January 14, 2010 – a 60-minute live radio debate on the “Jim and Margery Show” on WTKK 96.9 FM Talk. Exact time to be determined.

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  5. … some folks at the Blue Mass Group want Martha to engage with her fellow Democrats and get into the weeds a little bit on her positions with respect to civil rights and government authority.  

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    p>You can find the thread here.

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