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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Mar 30, 2010 04:37am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | IRVINE — As two of the three Republican Senate candidates get ready to square off in a debate featuring e-mailed and Tweeted questions Tuesday, a mini-debate erupted between the event’s organizers and the third candidate, Carly Fiorina.
Former Rep. Tom Campbell and Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, plan to participate in the debate at Brandman University, but Fiorina is boycotting because she thinks debate moderator Mike Moodian, an assistant professor of social science at the university, is biased.
“We felt the proposed moderator would not be fair and impartial so we declined,” Fiorina’s spokeswoman Amy Thoma said.
Initially, Fiorina said she could not participate because of a scheduling conflict, according to Thoma.
Moodian said he offered to let Fiorina set a date when she could make it, but then the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive said the debate was too close to a League of Women Voters forum May 6. |
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