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McCamley: Hall’s refusal to debate is ‘a shame’
Bill McCamley
District 5 Public Regulation candidate Bill McCamley says he’s disappointed that his opponent is refusing to debate him several times before the Nov. 2 election.
“It’s a shame that Mr. (Ben) Hall is refusing to interact with me. A series of debates would have educated the public both about the PRC and where we stand on its issues,” McCamley said in a news release. “If he won’t engage with me during the campaign, what does that say about his ability to be effective in Santa Fe, where there is a constant need to communicate and converse in order to protect the public?”
“I stand ready to discuss creating accountability and trust at the PRC with him should he change his mind,” McCamley said.
Last week Hall, the Republican in the race, rejected the challenge from McCamley, the Democrat, to jointly appear at 10 forums across the district this month and next month.
Ben Hall
Hall didn’t give a reason in his letter for rejecting McCamley’s challenge. But he did say he can “interact with the public and inform them of my background, knowledge of issues and my experience thru my web site, e-mail and the many forms of media that are available.”
In his news release, McCamley pointed to a blog posting in which the editor of the Alamogordo Daily News wrote, “McCamley has visited with me personally – in my office – three times and talked with my reporters several more times at various events. Hall has not contacted me or any of my editorial staff
at the Daily News – not even through the many forms of aforementioned media he cites to McCamley.”
As I’ve disclosed in the past, I’m friends with McCamley. Click here to read more about that.
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Yeah folks and this is why we need debates! If we had a debate the TRUTH will come out about Ben Hall and his background of shady business practices in Lincoln County.
I did not know this until today when I was readin about Gov Jan Brewer’s senior moment in her debate. Did y’all know that her participation was required?
Unlike NM where it appears any candidate can walk away with public financing, in Arizona they actually require candidates to agree to participate in a debate or else they don’t get their check from the tax payers.
Check it out here on Page 36:: http://azcleanelections.gov/2009-2010-docs/2010_ACT_and_Rules_Manual.sflb.ashx
Of course unless we elect a Secretary of State with half a brain we’ll never see any changes to the law. But I’m going to start raising it with my GOP central committee.
galrepub is exactly right. Kent Evans ruined this just like he messes everything up he touches in government. This Ben Hall guy who no one I know has even met, sounds like he’s cut from the same cloth as Kent. What an embarrassment.
Word is already spreading about Hall’s stance on insurance because that’s what people are educating themselves about given ObamaCare. Just shows that Hall doesn’t know much of anything and that’s not what we need on the PRC.
Can the GOP have a do over?
If anyone wants to know about Ben Hall, you need to read his letter to the editor today in the Las Cruces Sun-News located here (http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_15971875?IADID=Search-www.lcsun-news.com-www.lcsun-news.com). In it, he has some inane, nonsensical response to Bill McCamley’s recent article on regulation: http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2010/07/the-need-for-regulations-and-good-regulators/. Like his recent refusal to debate (http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site561/2010/0828/20100828_125056_mccamley.pdf), it too has gramatical mistakes “Then you add experience from past dealings with these problems and that help you wade through the B.S. and get down to what really matters to the people out on the street”… If you can’t write in basic English, how are you going to explain complicated decisions made at the PRC to constituents.
He also says that “…there is no need for a fully competitive market in the utility or insurance fields in New Mexico because of the power the PRC has over rate changes.” Isn’t this supposed to be the Tea Party, Republican, “Conservative” candidate? And he is against competition?
Wow.
Hall seems like a really shady back room door kind of guy. What’s the big deal about debating? Rumors of bankruptcies persist and that needs a public answer so maybe that’s what he’s afraid will come out. I will be encouraging other Republicans to sit this one out until McCamley proves he is worthy of the office.
Jamie, I hope you will run for office again. You are a smart, knowledgeable, hard wokring young man. It is too bad you had to spend you campaign time defending yourself and your family against half truths and inuendos from Kent Evans.
Hmmm… “Estrada wiped the floor with Hall and Evans”…. but Hall won. Now why was that?
It’s a sure thing that McCamley would come across well in debates with just about anybody. He is articulate and well-spoken. What he needs to find out, IMHO, is the answer to the question above.
Bill McCamley should definitely win this race if this Ben Hall joker continues to act this way.
I remember this report from April:
http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2010/04/gop-hispanic-candidates-win-straw-poll-in-elephant-butte/
Estrada wiped the floor with Hall and Evans at that debate. Hall probably knows that McCamley would do the same to him if they debate!!
Jamie Estrada would have been a much better candidate than SILENT BEN. This is an important office!
I hope that Mr. Hall reconsiders his decision to not debate Mr. McCamley. Had I won the Republican nomination, I was looking forward to a lively series of joint discussions with Bill around the 5th PRC district – certainly not so we could tear each other apart, but rather so we could set a good example for educating the public about the issues.
The issues before the PRC are complex and affect the daily lives of every New Mexican. Unfortunately, as I learned first hand, there’s a high degree of voter apathy about the commission. As I’m sure Bill can attest to, campaigning for this office often requires beginning every conversation with something like, “Let me first tell you what the PRC is, what it does, and why it’s important.” A series of debates could help educate the public not only about the PRC, but also about the candidates themselves.
And if you need a reminder as to why we need to know who these candidates are, just look to Heath’s reporting about corruption on the PRC, which became a major theme of my own primary campaign.
So I hope Mr. Hall and Mr. McCamley can come to some agreement on joint appearances – I think it would benefit all New Mexicans.