No Kay Blog

In the Galveston Daily News, an excellent letter to the editor: Senate Debate Is Needed (free registration or BugMeNot required). This call for a debate is from way back in May, but since we're still not sure even today whether Kay will agree to a debate, it's still valid. Here's the whole thing (emphasis added):

Tom Raum’s chilling summary of the Bush administration’s abuses of power (The Daily News, May 14) should serve as a wake-up call for Americans.

Time after time, this administration has trampled on our civil liberties, effectively abrogating the Bill of Rights and dangerously upsetting the checks and balances that were wisely put in place by the founding fathers.

The administration’s abuses of power could not have happened, of course, if the Congress had done its job and exercised real oversight of the executive branch.

Congress must be held accountable for its failures; one way for this to occur is by debates between incumbents and their challengers, so that voters can hear incumbents’ defense of their records and challengers’ ideas for doing things better.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, is ready to debate incumbent Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison on a variety of issues, but Hutchison has yet to agree to this.

Radnofsky is an energetic, enthusiastic senatorial candidate with fresh ideas, and the voters of Texas deserve the opportunity to hear debates between the two candidates so they may make an informed decision about which candidate is the best person to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Bill Cowan Galveston