Washington: Debates

Wed, 10/15/2008 - 23:48

Rossi, Gregoire hold fifth and final debate

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

The two gubernatorial candidates, Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire and former Republican state Sen. Dino Rossi, met tonight at the KING-TV studio in Seattle for their fifth and final debate of the campaign season.

Given that the campaign has been going at full speed for nearly a year at this point, and that the two have had four direct debates already in which to sort out their differences, there were few policy differences brought up tonight.

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Wed, 10/15/2008 - 00:04

Carlyle, Burbank spell out differences in LD36 debate

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

BALLARD - The two candidates vying for the position 1 seat of the 36th Legislative District, Democrats Reuven Carlyle and John Burbank, exchanged ideas and attempted to differentiate themselves from one another tonight in a debate at the Sunset Hill Community Association.

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Sun, 10/12/2008 - 22:22

Rossi happy with debate performance, criticizes 'angry' performance by Gregoire

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

ELLENSBURG - Dino Rossi (R-Sammamish) is feeling good about the impression he has made in the four gubernatorial debates so far.

"In Spokane I did quite well," he told PolitickerWA.com after a Saturday rally about the Friday debate he had with Gov. Chris Gregoire. "We got a lot of terrific feedback from people. I think even in the online polls of the tv station, people thought we won that debate."

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Thu, 10/09/2008 - 23:09

Gregoire, Rossi debate a fourth time

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

SPOKANE - Washington's two gubernatorial candidate met today for their fourth debate of the season. Democrat Chris Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi were asked questions from local citizens and a panel of Spokane-area reporters about many of the usual issues like education, tribal gaming, stem cell research and the state budget as well as a handful of issues more pertinent to Eastern Washington.

See below for a recap of today's debate.

Did Gregoire really take a quid pro quo from local tribes?

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Thu, 10/09/2008 - 01:26

Burner, Reichert debate

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

8th District congressional candidates Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Auburn) and Darcy Burner (D-Carnation) debated in Bellevue today.

According to the Seattle Times, the debate mostly covered economic and foreign policy issues and was marked by an active effort on Reichert's part to go after Burner.

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Tue, 10/07/2008 - 15:53

Former NY Gov. Pataki in town for debate watch party

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

He will appear at the Sorrento Hotel in Seattle to watch Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) trade verbal jabs with Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in their second debate of the election, this time done in a town hall style with audience questions.

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Thu, 10/02/2008 - 12:13

Yakima debate highlights Central Wash. issues

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

The two remaining gubernatorial candidates met Wednesday night for the third debate of their already year-long campaign.

The debate took place in Yakima, where location mattered more this time around than it had in the previous two as the questions shifted gear to focus more on the issues that affect the dry side of the state like immigration policy, water rights, bilingual education and state unity.

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Mon, 09/29/2008 - 11:10

Vancouver gubernatorial debate on thin ice

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

The proposed gubernatorial debate that was planned for Vancouver in the middle of October is now in server limbo, Rich Roesler is reporting.

At issue is the start time, which was originally scheduled for noon, then changed to 11:00 AM. Now it appears that the Rossi camp, who had set the previous two times and dates, wants to bump it up even further to 10:30 AM in order to accommodate a fundraiser planned for the same day.

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Fri, 09/26/2008 - 01:28

Gubernatorial foes talk taxes, budget in AWB debate

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

BLAINE - The Association of Washington Business hosted the second gubernatorial debate of the season tonight. Gov. Chris Gregoire and challenger Dino Rossi took questions submitted by members of the AWB in an hour-long format that allowed for two minute responses and no rebuttals.

As Gregoire mentioned in her closing statement, the format made for a lot of one-sided dialogue and issue soundbytes, and was nowhere near as testy as the KOMO debate of last Saturday.

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Thu, 09/25/2008 - 20:18

Lands commissioner debate becomes monologue

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

BLAINE - The two candidates for commisioner of public lands, Republican incumbent Doug Sutherland and Democratic challenger Peter Goldmark, were supposed to debate this morning but something funny happened along the way.

Sutherland never showed up for the debate.

The Seattle Times reports that Sutherland had the time marked incorrectly in his calendar, and was still driving en route to Semiahmoo whe the 11 AM start time elapsed.

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Rossi, Gregoire hold fifth and final debate

Carlyle, Burbank spell out differences in LD36 debate

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Gregoire, Rossi debate a fourth time

Burner, Reichert debate

Former NY Gov. Pataki in town for debate watch party

Yakima debate highlights Central Wash. issues

Vancouver gubernatorial debate on thin ice

Gubernatorial foes talk taxes, budget in AWB debate

Lands commissioner debate becomes monologue