Bring it on! Raul Martinez's campaign says it kept negotiating with CBS-4 in hopes of scheduling a debate with Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, and has agreed to one on Oct. 13.
Diaz-Balart's camp says he'll be there too! Of course the agreement did little to quell the sniping. As witnessed below:
"Mayor Martinez had to move his schedule to make this happen," Martinez's spokesman Aaron Blye said in a press release. "Hopefully, Lincoln Diaz-Balart won’t stand us up like he did last time and will stop dodging every TV station who has offered him an opportunity to debate the issues."
"Raul will be there, prime time on a network," he said in a reference to the latest spat over the debates that broke on Monday.
Diaz-Balart's spokesman Carlos Curbelo retorted that Diaz-Balart had "for a second time accepted a debate on CBS4. Hopefully Mr. Martinez will not find an excuse to cancel this time."
The campaign noted it had "only one special request: We ask Mr. Martinez to observe the no spitting rule." And it included a 1993 clip from the Miami Herald with the headline "Debate Turns Frothy In Hialeah," an account in which Martinez was accused by another Hialeah mayoral candidate of spitting in his face. His wife denied the account and said Martinez only "blew" in his opponent's face.
Should be a fun debate.....
This economic slump is a magic trick to sway voter opinion.
Posted by: Wake up and spit out the coolaid | October 01, 2008 at 06:34 PM
This economic slump is a magic trick to sway voter opinion.
Posted by: Wake up and spit out the coolaid | October 01, 2008 at 06:35 PM
This economic slump is a magic trick to sway voter opinion.
Posted by: Wake up and spit out the coolaid | October 01, 2008 at 06:37 PM
This economic slump is a magic trick to sway voter opinion.
Posted by: Wake up and spit out the coolaid | October 01, 2008 at 06:40 PM
That man Martinez is absolutely disgusting.
Posted by: Alice R | October 01, 2008 at 07:52 PM
Spitting?! Wow. I cannot believe it. Are the Democrats serious??? This is disappointing. I thought we would have a real choice in this race. We really don't.
Posted by: Jessica | October 01, 2008 at 08:41 PM
How about that director in Hialeah Housing that Raul threaten with a ride out to the Everglades because he would not play along on a contract that Martinez wanted?
Posted by: marina | October 01, 2008 at 11:06 PM
So what your saying is that the character witnesses are Morganti and Juri. Morganti gone for stealing from the housing authority and Juri awaiting trial for stealing from Miami-Dade County.
How come the only people you can find to badmouth Martinez are a bunch of crooks?
How come you guys associate with crooks?
You know that rubs off, right?
Now I see!
Posted by: Hialeah411 | October 02, 2008 at 07:01 AM
What anout that poor kid that Martinez savagely beat up in the mddile of the street? The guy is a thug.
Posted by: Cheo Hialeah | October 02, 2008 at 12:31 PM