The campaign of Maricopa County Board of Supervisors candidate Ed Hermes is accusing incumbent District 1 supervisor Fulton Brock of cancelling a debate scheduled for Thursday night, while the Brock campaign says it never agreed to the North Tempe Neighborhood Association event.

In a press release from the Hermes campaign, the Democratic challenger's campaign manager, Devin Mauney, said Brock was "dodging questions" by failing to appear at the debate.

Wylie Timmerman, communications director for Hermes, told PolitickerAZ.com that Brock had initially requested the debate be rescheduled for October 23 from an earlier date and agreed to appear. 

Timmerman claims Darlene Justus, of the North Tempe Neighborhood Association, called on the morning of Sept. 25 while both Hermes and Brock were before the endorsements board of the Arizona Republic, upset that Brock had pulled out of the event. Timmerman said Hermes has repeatedly called to schedule another debate, but the Brock campaign hasn't gotten back to them on future joint appearances.

Jason Rose, spokesman for the Brock campaign, told PolitickerAZ.com that the Hermes campaign's take is wrong.

"For the life of me, there was never a debate scheduled, confirmed for tonight," said Rose. "It was absurd to suggest that, and it reinforces the dude's immaturity when he would send something out that's just wrong."

Rose said the campaign had been contacted by an organizer of the debate, but that Brock hadn't agreed to it.

"There was a woman with this organization saying can you do this debate?" said Rose. "And [Brock] said not on that day, and that was the end of it, we never heard back from her. It's just dishonest and immature to suggest there was anything scheduled."