{"id":8750,"date":"2002-10-06T15:50:15","date_gmt":"2002-10-06T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/06\/the-old-debate-and-switch-trick\/"},"modified":"2002-10-06T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2002-10-06T20:50:15","slug":"the-old-debate-and-switch-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/the-old-debate-and-switch-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"The old debate and switch trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>A spokesman for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Frank<br \/>\nLautenberg has retracted Lautenberg&#8217;s promise, offered just yesterday, that he<br \/>\nwould meet his Republican opponent Doug Forrester for 21 debates in different<br \/>\nNew Jersey counties before Election Day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Asked whether his boss intended to honor the 21-debate<br \/>\npledge, Lautenberg spokesman Tom Shea told WABC Radio&#8217;s Steve Malzberg,<br \/>\n&#8220;Absolutely not.&#8221;<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002\/10\/6\/141005\">Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I heard Jackie Mason on Fox News talking about the New Jersey<br \/>\nsituation and he said that if the Democrats get behind in a debate the Candidate<br \/>\ncan resign the debate and have another Democrat come in to answer the question.<br \/>\nTag team politics could be interesting, I wish we would have had that option<br \/>\nwhen Bob Dole ran for President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesman for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Frank Lautenberg has retracted Lautenberg&#8217;s promise, offered just yesterday, that he would meet his Republican opponent Doug Forrester for 21 debates in different&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}