Posted on 10/04/2004 9:52:18 AM PDT by Constitution Day
Easley, Ballantine Spar Over Education In First Gubernatorial Debate
POSTED: 7:04 am EDT October 4, 2004
UPDATED: 12:34 pm EDT October 4, 2004
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Opposing views over education sparked a heated exchange Monday between Gov. Mike Easley and his Republican challenger Patrick Ballantine in a debate at SAS Institute in Cary.
Easley and Ballantine debated educational issues during the one-hour debate. At one point, both parties backed out of any debate because they could not agree to parameters. Both sides finally agreed to debate education issues first and general issues later.
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"If Patrick Ballantine is a champion of education, then Saddam Hussein is a champion of civil rights," Easley said. "He has voted against Smart Start. He voted against pre-K for 4-year-olds at More at Four. He voted against reducing class size."
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
PING.
Well, in all fairness, that's hard to argue with. ;-)
Debate will re-run on WRAL at the following dates and times:
Monday, Oct. 4, at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 5, at 10 a.m., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 10, at 5 p.m and 9 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 11, at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 12, at 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 13, at 8 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 14, at 5 p.m.
Unbelievable. Easley would not stay behind the podium for fear of being in a camera view showing both of them side by side.
Patrick Ballantine is a bit (not hugely) taller than Easley. He is also younger and better looking. All things Easley did not want the viewers to see - side by side.
Easley also appeared to have a teleprompter in front of him to aid him because he kept looking over to it for notes and facts.
Patrick had notes - articles from the N&O - all of which were tremendous.
Patrick was absolutely superb!!!! BRAVO!!!
The Dems will do whatever they can to prevent most in NC to see this - but hopefully most in NC will see it anyway.
True, but he sounded like a moron when he said that.
34-year-olds "don't have but one chance" to be 34, either.
Thank you for posting this.
I couldn't see it at work - no TV - and the WRAL website was only streaming in RealPlayer, as far as I could tell.
MKM was keeping my updated via FRmail, but I will have to catch it tonight.
Glad to hear he did a good job. I look forward to watching it this evening.
"keeping ME", even.
Does Ballantine have ANY realistic chance? Really, any? Who was NC's last R Governor?
Bump for later.
Patrick was just absolute tremendous.
He was energetic, positive, passionate, and convincing. And he was not intimidated in the least by Easley.
The last Republican Governor was Jim Martin. Before that we had Holshouser and Jim Gardner....all 3 Republicans. It can be done. Many North Carolinians are fed up with TaxEasley...but they will use fraud here also so who knows.
Sorry will promise to proofread more - that should be "absolutely" not "absolute" and there are assorted other typos...oh well.
Last GOP Gov. here was Jim Martin, who served from 1984-1992 if I recall.
Well, at least ya didn't nominate Richard Vinroot again. Isn't he like, a perennial candidate?
Yeah, he has run so many times for Gov that I can't count 'em.
You're quite welcome!
"We don't need an education lottery. We need an education governor," Go Patrick!
To all NCarolinians this is a "Not to be Missed" debate. Ballantine took Easley to the woodshed and back again. All "Tax Hike Mike" could talk about was, you guessed it, "The Education Lottery" HA, what a joke.
PB bombarded him with fact after fact about his failed reign as Governor and the deplorable state of our educational system. No snoozefest this debate, unlike the Presidential one.
Easley got spanked by the moderator more than once for going over his time. I'm so glad I taped this for my hubby because I want to watch it again.
MKM
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