Clinton challenges Obama: Let's debate in Oregon
12:42 PM PDT on Thursday, April 24, 2008
Senator Hillary Clinton challenged Sen. Barack Obama to two debates in Oregon ahead of the state’s presidential primary vote.
Nick Shapiro, Communications Director for the Obama campaign in Oregon, issued the following statement in response to the Clinton campaign’s challenge announced to the press Thursday:
“This is an old, Washington game. There have been 21 Democratic debates and four one-on-one debates with Senator Clinton, all televised nationally. Senator Obama's focus is on meeting directly with Oregon voters about the issues that really matter to them – like jobs, ending the war in Iraq, combating climate change, and making health care affordable for all Americans.”
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On Wednesday, the Clinton campaign also launched a Web site where Oregonians could log on to request an Oregon Presidential debate. The Web site also includes a tapes statement from Clinton where she outlines her proposal for debates in Oregon. Oregon will vote May 20.
After Clinton's Pennsylvania primary win she was on track to collect $10 million in donations in the 24 hours.
The campaign says it was her best fundraising day ever.
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Former President Bill Clinton will campaign for his wife Hillary in Oregon on Friday, April 25th and Saturday, April 26th, the campaign announced late Tuesday. One of the stops will be at Lincoln High School in Portland.
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The former president's campaign swing took him to Portland, Bend and Salem on March 31st, after a visit to Medford the night before. Hillary followed with a visit to Oregon the first weekend of April. Then, just over a week later, daughter Chelsea Clinton campaigned for Hillary in Oregon on April 12.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is bringing to Oregon the small-town strategy that helped her win Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary.
Josh Kardon, chairman of Clinton's Oregon steering committee, says she has been doing well with working class, union and rural voters, and plans to take her Oregon campaign to places presidential candidates never go.
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