The major party candidates in the 5th District have yet to reach an agreement on debates.
Republican challenger Robert Hurt has said he will not debate independent candidate Jeff Clark, so Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, proposed a compromise in a news release Wednesday.
Perriello suggested a set of four televised debates: two that included all three candidates, and two head-on debates with just Hurt and Perriello.
“While Tom believes voters should have the opportunity to hear every candidate on the ballot every time,” Perriello’s campaign manager, Lise Clavel, said in a statement, “this compromise seems like the only way Sen. Hurt will allow the process to move forward without being too scared to have a real debate that respects independents.”
However, Hurt’s campaign manager, Sean Harrison, refused the compromise.
“We’ve made our position on debates clear,” Harrison said in an e-mail. “While Rep. Perriello continues to play political, games we’re talking about the issues that central and Southside families and businesses care about — job creation and how to stop the out of control government spending that has taken place under Rep. Perriello’s time in Washington.”
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