Democratic Senate hopefuls sidestep attacks during debate

[Freddie Stubbs]

Former Vice President Al Gore's comments about one Democratic candidate don't come up.
By ANITA KUMAR, Times Staff Writer
Published June 9, 2004


NAPLES - Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas came to Tuesday night's U.S. Senate debate ready to go on the offensive.

He brought four busloads of supporters, clad in matching white-and-blue Penelas shirts. He passed out information on one opponent's "ineffective and anti-consumer" record in Congress. And he took subtle jabs at U.S. Rep. Peter Deutsch without uttering his name.

But the issue that Penelas and hundreds of audience members expected to be a central theme of the debate never came up.

No one mentioned recent comments by former Vice President Al Gore, who criticized Penelas as "the single most treacherous and dishonest person" he encountered during the bitter 2000 election.

more: http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/09/State/Democratic_Senate_hop.shtml

[JohnLocke]

1. Good to see Penelas turning this race into about issues and platform..

...not the past.

[Racenut20]

2. Are you a Peneles campaign worker?

[Bombtrack]

3. Not Gore/Deutsch's lying/skewed/revisionism-stunt VERSION of the past

you mean.

And to the second posters question, JohnLocke is a supporter of Penelas, I don't know if he's a "campaign worker". I am though, and very proud to support and work for the best candidate, Alex Penelas.