Miller States Need for a Debate to Replace Cancelled Forums

Anchorage, Alaska. August 13, 2010 — The campaign for U.S. Senate Candidate Joe Miller said there is a need to replace the two cancelled debates with at least one additional debate between the candidates prior to the August 24th Election Day. The Miller Campaign will work with the Murkowski Campaign to find the time and location agreeable to both parties.

The debate would be televised by local area networks and facilitated by three prominent local personalities to be chosen with input from each campaign. The debate format will include: 1) questions from the moderators to each of the candidates, with an opportunity for rebuttal; 2) questions provided by the audience to each candidate, followed again by rebuttals; and 3) a segment in which the candidates may ask questions of each other. Murkowski has stated that Miller has been lying about her record. The main purpose of the debate is to allow the media, public, and the candidates themselves to ask the hard questions with an opportunity for each candidate to ‘set the record straight.’ The format will allow the fullest airing of the candidates’ issues so Alaskan voters can make an informed decision.

“The election will be taking place very soon, and the public deserves to be fully informed before making their decision. This is the one opportunity they will have for a job interview and they should have more than a 30-second or 1-minute sound bites. They deserve a real debate,” said Miller. “The Senator has been advertising that she’s been ‘fighting’ for Alaskans in Washington. If true, she should be more than willing to defend her record and allow primary voters to hear from the candidate herself on where she stands on the issues,” said Miller.