Douglass Campaign's Response to Hurt's Five-Debate Dodge

Even Republican Senate candidate George Allen has had the guts to accept a large number of debates. So far, the Hurt campaign has only agreed to two, shutting out thousands of voters from participating and even viewing the debates in the Richmond media market. Aside from the one debate scheduled in Danville and the one in Warrenton, invitation requests from the following organizations have thus far either been rejected or ignored by Douglass’s opponent: C’ville Senior Statesmen, C’ville League of Women Voters, Danville American Legion Post 325, Danville/Pittsylvania Chamber of Commerce, the Smith Mountain Lake Association, Fluvanna Chamber of Commerce and Hampden-Sydney College.

General Douglass issued the debate challenge back in July, before releasing his 25-point Help Virginia Families Plan, which explains what he will do in Congress to bring job creators and job seekers together by supporting local growth with the type of worker training programs he put in place in the Navy. Meanwhile, the Hurt Plan offers more deficit-funded subsidies for corporations that outsource jobs, but votes to oppose worker training programs, end Medicare as we know it and fail to take action to stop dangerous uranium mining in the district, according to well documented sources included in StoppingTheHurt.com. Now, after voting to take a month-long adjournment from Congress, the only reason his campaign can come up with for dodging more debates is “scheduling conflicts.”

Gen. John Douglass is running for Congress in the 5th District to help Virginia families get a fair chance at a better future after serving our country on President Reagan’s National Security Council and then as President Clinton’s Assistant Secretary of the Navy, before going on to promote air and space policies that grow our economy by creating manufacturing jobs and keeping our skies safe.

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