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“Civility” At Debate
by Paul Bass | Aug 3, 2010 2:49 pm
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Posted to: Campaign 2010
(Updated) Rocky Hill—Supporters of the two Democratic candidates for governor showed up early outside the pair’s last scheduled debate Tuesday morning, as one of the candidates urged a “civil” tone.
The one-hour debate between candidates Ned Lamont and Dan Malloy, who face each other in an Aug. 10 Democratic primary, is being taped at WFSB’s Rocky Hill studios at 1 p.m. It will air on both WFSB (Channel 3) and WNPR at 3 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m.
The campaign’s supporters hauled signs to the studio’s winding entrance, as expectations ran high about how the contest would impact what’s considered to be a tight contest. Chanting and cheering started early. Twenty-five year-old UConn janitor Arnaldo Cruz (pictured at the top of the story with Malloy sign) brought his 5 year-old son Jordan to the scene; his union, SEIU’s 32BJ, is backing Malloy’s candidacy.
Return here at 4 o’clock for a blow-by-blow account of the debate and its spin-zone aftermath. WFSB has asked reporters to embargo stories about the debate until then. (Don’t ask.)
In the month before the election, Lamont has resisted Malloy’s calls for a one-on-one televised debate. He said he didn’t like the negative tone of the campaign. He originally turned down WFSB’s invitation to debate.
Then as Malloy started airing attack ads on Lamont, Lamont’s campaign returned with a salvo of their own grainy televised smears.
As Lamont took heat for ducking a debate, he changed course and agreed to participate today. This morning he issued a pledge to “take the high road.”
“I decided to participate in this debate with Dan Malloy because I wanted the voters to see and hear from us directly, without the negative back and forth that has dominated the airwaves in the last ten days,” he said.
“Sure I want a civil debate. That’s what debates are,” Malloy responded as he marched to the studio with a band of supporters cheering behind him. Then, in a quick speech to the crowd, he took a shot at Lamont for ducking a previous debate in New London.
Lamont made brief remarks to his own band of supporters marching with him to the door, promising to stick to issues in the debate.
Conventional wisdom holds that a low turnout election helps Malloy, because he has the support of party regulars outside the big cities. In an August primary, a candidate like Lamont needs to excite people who don’t normally vote to come to the polls, the way he did in a 2006 U.S. Senate primary. So a dynamic debate performance would help.
Sneak preview: The debate was civil! For the most part. But shhh!! We can’t tell you more, until 4 p.m.
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posted by: Debra E Dickey on August 3, 2010 2:11pm
Interesting that even as he pledges to be civil, Malloy has to take a swipe at Lamont for ducking the New London debate; not very encouraging! My vote may be determined by who is the most civil…
posted by: dee on August 3, 2010 2:30pm
Debra, Dan Malloy left civility behind about two weeks ago, when he released an ad implying Ned Lamont was racist, and repeating debunked lies about Lamont from the 2006 campaign.
posted by: Fran on August 3, 2010 2:55pm
Dee, the same can be said for Lamont, who is showing charges of no merit from which Malloy was cleared and never charged in 2004, and showing (crossing the line) Malloy’s home in that same ad, a home in which his children live.
The Malloy ad’s implication was from an actual lawsuit and newspaper report. The Lamont ad brings up things that didn’t happen and were proven untrue.
Personally, and I am not sure who I am voting for, but Lamont’s ads not only are as uncivil as Malloy’s, but are also untrue. That bothers me about Lamont.
Again, I have not made up my mind, but if his supporters (Lamont’s) are condoning Lamont’s ads and putting 100% of the blame on Malloy, I do have an issue with that.
Both campaigns have been equally uncivil, and should not have been.
posted by: More of the Same on August 3, 2010 7:36pm
Who cares?
All these candidates including the Republicans are fundamentally similar. They all wish to perpetuate a system of consumption and greed with no hope for anything better. The best we can hope for every year is a candidate who will promise to “improve our economy.” The same economy that is predicated on a system of debt and wage-labor enslavement. Improving it only means exploiting each other in a race to the bottom. It’s a classic catch-22.
Every year the rich get richer and we’re left to fight over their scraps. Our economy has gotten progressively worse over the past 40 years - the dollar is shrinking, debt is skyrocketing, the middle class is disappearing; we’ve all settled for more work and less pay, and more importantly less independence.
We’re chained to this system more than ever - mortgages, taxes, utilities, student loans, credit cards, state aid - we have no idea how deep a hole we are digging for ourselves. We’ve lost the knowledge and desire to subsist outside of this machine. It’s just easier to pay someone to do the job for us. Does anyone really believe these candidates are going to change that? They won’t even acknowledge it!
