"Debate invitations" refers to the act of requesting or extending an offer for someone to participate in a formal discussion or argument about a particular topic.
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Astorino announced that he has accepted five televised
debate invitations from a variety of hosts and sponsors, but which Cuomo has not accepted, plus an additional multi-candidate debate on Buffalo's public television station that Governor Cuomo has accepted.
Mr. Cuomo refuses to talk about his role in the Moreland Scandal; he refuses to allow a tax inspector in his house; he refuses to
answer debate invitations; he refuses to releases details of his book deal; he refuses to explain why JCOPE didn't investigate Shelly Silver in the sex assault scandal, and he refuses to explain what happened to all the missing emails and blackberry messages that his staff erased.
Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic incumbent, accepted two
debate invitations without, his opponents say, discussing or negotiating the details of engagement.
«I want Chuck to answer why he has the time to do a «Dog Bites Man» press conference but can not accept one of the four
debate invitations that I have accepted,» Townsend continued.
I've already accepted
a debate invitation from NY1.
«If Zephyr Teachout has a shred of authenticity left, she'll expand
her debate invitation to include the left - wing billionaires funding her campaign.»
The governor's campaign jumped on two
debate invitations: One with public television in Buffalo featuring all the candidates, plus a radio debate in New York City with just Astorino.
More debates had been proposed by each of the candidates, but Wednesday's
debate invitation was the only one that was accepted by both Cuomo and Astorino.
Over the weekend, the Cuomo campaign announced it had accepted two
debate invitations: One in Buffalo featuring the governor, Astorino and the Green and Libertarian Party candidates that would be televised, and a second radio debate featuring just Cuomo and Astorino one on one.
Astorino has accepted
every debate invitation offered, including one made by Time Warner Cable News and NY1.
His PR stunts included hiring a guy in a chicken suit to stand outside the office of a Miami senator who refused
a debate invitation.
In support of my theory that Gleick was seeking revenge for his own sense of shame and embarrassment at turning down
the debate invitation, I find this at WUWT (re the Gleick emails to HI):
If we accept that Geick received an anonymous memo purportedly from HI at about the same time as
the debate invitation, then the contents of the memo would have been worthy of investigation.