Hunter/Paul to have their own Forums Today

[Dianne]

I refuse to watch this Fox Forum with the exclusion of Hunter and Paul. Outside of Romney, I am not interested in anything the rest of the lying pack has to say.


January 5, 2008, 6:58 pm
New Hampshire G.O.P. Backs Out of Fox Forum
By Michael Falcone

MANCHESTER, N.H. ? Ron Paul raised nearly $20 million in the last quarter, likely more than any of his rivals. He garnered 10 percent of the Republican vote in the Iowa Caucuses, surpassing Rudolph W. Giuliani. And he?s in New Hampshire this weekend on the airwaves and the campaign trail before the Jan. 8 primary.
But the Texas congressman and presidential contender won?t be getting a seat and the table at Sunday?s Fox News Republican candidate forum.
On Saturday the New Hampshire Republican party expressed its disappointment with the decision to exclude Mr. Paul and Representative Duncan Hunter of California by severing its partnership with Fox.
?We believe that it is inconsistent with the first in the nation primary tradition to be excluding candidates in a pre-primary setting,? said Fergus Cullen, chair of the state G.O.P. party. ?All candidates regardless of how well known they are or how much money they?ve raised should be treated equally here.?

Fox News invited Mr. Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson to the 90-minute forum which will be held Sunday night at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire. Mr. Paul is leading Mr. Thompson in several recent polls in the state.
The New Hampshire G.O.P. has been in discussions with Fox to include all the candidates in the forum, but the network said that it was only inviting candidates who received double digit support in national polls.
On Saturday, Fox News Channel issued a brief statement from David Rhodes, its vice president of news: ?We look forward to presenting a substantive forum which will serve as the first program of its kind this election season.?
Supporters of Mr. Paul will still be able to watch him on their television screens Sunday night. Jesse Benton, his spokesman, said the campaign is planning its own town hall special to be broadcast on Manchester, N.H. public television, C-SPAN and online. Mr. Paul is also set to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday.
Update: In a statement, Duncan Hunter?s presidential campaign announced that it too would hold its own town hall meeting in place of the Fox News forum, and noted that Mr. Hunter won a delegate in Saturday?s Wyoming primary while other candidates who received invitations to the forum did not.

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Hunter Points to Wyoming Showing as Debate Credential
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–>ABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Congressman Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., arguing that since he won delegates in Wyoming with his 10 percent third place finish in the caucus there today, is crying foul of his exclusion from the ABC News/Facebook and Fox News Debates. Some of Hunter’s Republican rivals, who were invited to join both debates, haven’t won any delegates in any state thus far.

In order to encourage supporters to protest his exclusion, the Hunter campaign has distributed the e-mail address of ABC News Political Director, David Chalian. For Fox News, the campaign just circulates the e-mail address available for generic comments.

Hunter will host his own town hall meeting tonight at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, N.H., alongside his most prominent backer, Chuck Yeager.

Congressman Ron Paul, R-Texas, who is excluded only from the Fox News debate, will also hold his own hall meeting tomorrow evening. Paul’s event will be simulcast on public access and on the Internet (a local network affiliate would sell the airtime but would not put Paul’s program up live).

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[AngelaTC]

I really sort of wish they had waited a day to respond. They could have watched the Fox debate and then responded to any issues raised there.

Paul is on Blitzer right now. Wow!