RSS Feed MenuAmazing debate. Free-flowing, aggressive, and very interesting to listen to.
Campbell sounded solid. DeVore and Fiorina are fighting to represent the ‘true-conservative’ label.
Posted at 4:00pm by Tim Mak
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Fiorina to Campbell: You supported internet taxes!
Campbell: [laughing] So did you!
Fiorina: Why haven’t you signed the taxpayer pledge?
Campbell: Here’s an example: what if we needed a tax increase in airline tickets to pay for increased security? Would you be against that?
Fiorina: I would vote against that.
Posted at 3:55pm by Tim Mak
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Fiorina to Campbell: Are you suggesting that the Federal Government print more money to balance the budget? That would be disastrous.
Posted at 3:54pm by Tim Mak
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Moving onto economics. Eric Hogue: What would you say to increasing the tax burden?
Fiorina: The tax burden must be lowered. We must cut taxes. Fiorina takes Campbell to task on tax issues: He won’t sign the taxpayer protection pledge!
Campbell: The National Taxpayer Union has rated me the most fiscally responsible Congressman in two of the Congresses that I served in. I have never supported raising taxes federally to balance the budget.
DeVore: Tax rates are too high. Campbell has been good on cutting on the spending side; not so much on cutting the tax side.
Posted at 3:52pm by Tim Mak
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Campbell tries to explain his supposed vote for Jerusalem. He calls his vote “courageous”.
Fiorina: We must stand and defend Israel. Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.
Campbell to Fiorina: If Israel and the Palestinians agree to a shared capital, would you oppose it?
Fiorina: It’s a hypothetical question. It’s an academic question. It’s irrelevant.
Posted at 3:43pm by Tim Mak
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Fiorina: I think we all support a two-state solution. Israel has made unprecedented concessions to get the peace process moving again. I do not support the notion that Jerusalem should be a divided capital.
Campbell: No, that’s not true.
Posted at 3:40pm by Tim Mak
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Campbell to DeVore: I honor your service to our country, and I thank you.
Campbell: Links terrorists to pirates – that’s the American precedent, he says.
Posted at 3:40pm by Tim Mak
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DeVore to Fiorina: While you were advising the Dept of Defense, there were seven meetings in your committee. You only attended two.
Fiorina: I was battling cancer.
DeVore: Well, these meetings were before “your unfortunate illness.”
Posted at 3:35pm by Tim Mak
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From @TalktoTom’s twitter:
Posted at 3:35pm by Tim Mak
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Hogue: Why are you best for America’s national security?
DeVore: I’m a Lt. Col in Military Intelligence. Worked in the Pentagon. I’ve been to Israel four times. I’ve studied in Egypt. I’ve been shot at in Lebanon. This has given me a unique insight.
Fiorina: I have spent 20+ years travelling all over the world. I have advised Defence, CIA, and so on. I have traveled to the Middle East extensively. I have the highest clearance available to a civilian. The next California Senator will have an obligation to vote on very important matters.
Campbell: I served in the House International Relations Committee. I voted to go to war with Iraq during the first gulf war, when they invaded Kuwait.
Posted at 3:30pm by Tim Mak
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Frantic debate. #Fiorina out for Campbell; #DeVore out for Fiorina; Campbell calmly defends himself. #casen #tcot
Posted at 3:26pm by Tim Mak
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Moderator Eric Hogue brings the topic back to the controversy surrounding Campbell’s views on the Middle East.
Campbell: The United States needs to support Israel if it needs to use force on Iran. “If Israel needs to take that step. We support Israel.”
Fiorina: Tom Campbell’s voting record is quite clear… we have lost a year to Obama’s failed foreign policy. We should cut off Iran leadership’s access to finances and petroleum.
Posted at 3:22pm by Tim Mak
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DeVore is criticizing Fiorina’s MIT thesis, saying that it asserts that the constitution was a roadblock to excellence in education.
It’s clear DeVore wants nothing to do with the Campbell attacks – is going to be focusing on chipping away at Fiorina.
Posted at 3:19pm by Tim Mak
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Fiorina: I’ve been talking about substance the entire campaign. Feel free to take a look at my MIT thesis.
Posted at 3:16pm by Tim Mak
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DeVore: Carly’s campaign has been running a campaign of whispers about Tom Campbell and myself.
Posted at 3:16pm by Tim Mak
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Campbell: Points out that he couldn’t refund contributions from Abdurahman Alamoudi because his campaign was over. He says that he supports Israel; he tried to cut economic aid to Israel, not military aid.
Posted at 3:13pm by Tim Mak
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Devore: Fiorina’s campaign is attacking Campbell in an illegitimate way.
Posted at 3:12pm by Tim Mak
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Fiorina: Tom Campbell didn’t refund the contributions of terrorist sympathizer and American Muslim Council member Abdurahman Alamoudi. I don’t think you are an anti-Semite… California voters need to know our views.
Posted at 3:10pm by Tim Mak
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Tom Campbell gets the first question: How does he respond to the charges of anti-Semitism?
“I have never flinched from my strong support” of Israel, he says. Should have looked into Al-Arian’s associations more, says Campbell.
Posted at 3:08pm by Tim Mak
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Chuck Devore has an excellent advertisement voice. His opening statement: “The principles of the founding fathers are not antiquated, and they don’t require moderating.”
Posted at 3:06pm by Tim Mak
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Carly Fiorina’s opening statement: “We have arrived at what Reagan once called ‘a time for choosing’.”
“I’m the only candidate who has ever… created a job. And I will fight for every job.”
Posted at 3:02pm by Tim Mak
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Opening statements: Tom Campbell starts.
Immediately – Campbell addresses anti-Semitism charges, and head on, in his sixty second opening statement. He’s on the defensive, but sounds calm and reasoned. “Silent slander stops today… Today, that stops.”
Posted at 3:02pm by Tim Mak
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Eric Hogue hosts Carly Fiorina, Tom Campbell and Chuck DeVore for an on-radio debate.
Check it out here live: http://www.ktkz.com/
I’ll be liveblogging as the debate continues.
Posted at 3:02pm by Tim Mak
Danny_K // Mar 5, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Astonishing! Are they running for Mayor of Jerusalem or Governor of California? Isn’t this going to seem irrelevant to actual Californians, who are living through the worst economic times in living memory?
COProgressive // Mar 5, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Carly Fiorina’s opening statement: “We have arrived at what Reagan once called ‘a time for choosing’.”
“I’m the only candidate who has ever… created a job. And I will fight for every job.”
(Laughter………)
I think she forgot to add, “and I’m the only candidate that laid off 18,000 workers and sent their jobs overseas and still ran the company into ruin and was given $46 Million and fired.”
Oh, maybe she really didn’t want anyone to know about that.
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jonathansamuel // Mar 7, 2010 at 7:55 am
Puh-leeze.
Campbell lies. Abdurahman Alamoudi made his “We are all Hamas!” speech in the summer of 2000 while Campbell was running for reelection. It was televised. Hillary Clinton and GWB returned their donations.
Campbell, however, announced that he had discussed the speech with Alamoudi and decided to keep the donation. Campbell’s claim that he couldn’t return Alamoudi’s donation because the campaign was over is SPECIOUS and FALSE.