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   https://nypost.com/2018/10/20/now-kirsten-gillibrand-and-letitia-james-   
   are-trying-to-dodge-debates/   
      
   They’re pecking away at democracy.   
      
   Republicans raged Saturday at the expanding number of top New York   
   Democrats who are giving their challengers the silent treatment rather   
   than debate them.   
      
   So far, Gov. Cuomo, and two top Dems — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and   
   attorney general candidate Letitia James — are ducking debates with their   
   darkhorse opponents.   
      
   On Friday, Gillibrand and James backed out of contests set to air on   
   Spectrum’s NY1, claiming they were acting out of solidarity with workers   
   striking against the channel’s parent company, Charter Communications.   
      
   But their opponents said that’s a cock and bull story.   
      
   But their opponents said that’s a cock and bull story.   
      
   “This is just Kirsten Gillibrand silencing her opponent,” Republican   
   Senate candidate Chele Farley told The Post. “So much for transparency.”   
      
   “It’s really despicable behavior for elected officials to hide from the   
   voters they claim to represent,” GOP strategist Susan Del Percio said.   
   “There’s no excuse to turn your back on democracy.”   
      
   Gillibrand promised to debate Farley on Sunday. James was scheduled to   
   debate Republican Keith Wofford on Oct. 30.   
      
   James said she wouldn’t participate unless the roughly 18-month-old labor   
   dispute gets resolved by then.   
      
   But Farley noted both Gillibrand and James had no problem with previous   
   appearances on NY1, even when the labor fight was well underway.   
      
   “This strike has been going on since March 2017,” she said. “Gillibrand   
   has appeared on NY1 from their studios at least twice this year.”   
      
   James appeared in an NY1-sponsored attorney general debate with three   
   other labor-supporting Democrats ahead of the party’s September primary.   
      
   Farley said it was Gillibrand’s staff that set up the now-cancelled debate   
   in the first place.   
   But since then, Cuomo has called on fellow pols to boycott NY1. He even   
   went as far as to praise his nemesis, Mayor de Blasio, for cancelling his   
   regular segment on the channel.   
      
   News 12 Long Island, which is not owned by Spectrum, invited both   
   Gillibrand and Farley to debate in their studio Nov. 1.   
      
   The Republican plans to be there, but the incumbent has not yet said   
   definitively whether she’ll show.   
      
   On Friday, the state AFL-CIO announced plans for the International   
   Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 to picket outside the scheduled   
   Gillibrand-Farley debate at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs.   
      
   It would be the union’s first time demonstrating at a remote NY1 news   
   event. Up until now, striking workers have set up picket lines at Spectrum   
   storefronts.   
      
   And the union hasn’t voiced any outrage over an NY1-sponsored debate in   
   the hotly contested 19th Congressional District in the Hudson Valley,   
   where Republican incumbent Rep. John Faso is battling Democrat Antonio   
   Delgado, according to Delgado’s spokesperson. That face-off was moving   
   ahead as planned for this coming Tuesday in Woodstock, said Delgado   
   spokesperson Melissa Toufanian.   
      
   But state AFL-CIO president Mario Cilento issued a statement that said   
   “all elected and would-be elected officials should put workers first and   
   do the right thing on behalf of those workers who are sacrificing so much   
   for the good of all working people.”   
      
   He added, “IBEW Local 3 has been and continues to conduct leafleting to   
   educate the public on their fight for a fair contract.”   
      
   In that race, a no-show from Delgado could sink the Democrats’ chances of   
   flipping the seat.   
      
   While Gillibrand and James have broadcast their support for unions,   
   Delgado hasn’t gotten any pressure from the AFL-CIO, his spokeswoman told   
   The Post.   
      
   A political consultant for labor groups said it’s all about the optics.   
      
   “[Union workers] could make the demand at the right time and the   
   candidates could agree to pull out of the debate and look pro-labor,” the   
   consultant said of the Hudson Valley race.   
      
   GOP gubernatorial candidate Molinaro accused Cuomo of pushing the AFL-CIO   
   to “concoct a bogus Spectrum picket line” so Gillibrand and James have a   
   pretext to quit their debates.   
      
   “Cuomo is so desperate to avoid a statewide debate that he is willing to   
   deny all New Yorkers any debate for any statewide office,” Molinaro said   
   Saturday.   
      
   A Cuomo spokesperson countered, “Trump mini-me [opponent Mark] Molinaro   
   has no respect for working men and women and is anti-labor … Molinaro, who   
   just yesterday turned down a one-on-one debate, should be saying ‘quack   
   quack.’ ”   
      
   Gillibrand spokesman Glen Caplin said, “we will have a televised debate   
   before the election” but did not say when or where.   
      
      
      
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