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THOMAS RAVENEL CHALLENGES JOHN McCAIN TO DEBATE

What?  McCain is a US Senator from Arizona. Ravenel

is in S.C.

Usually when a challenger puppy-dogs behind an incumbent - demanding a debate -it's because the challenger is not getting attention.

Thomas Ravenel has collected some petition names, and is trying to get on the fall ballot to challenge US Sen. Lindsey Graham. Ravenel once declared he'd consider renouncing his US citizenship. He is a convicted felon for drugs.

So far, Ravenel has challenged Graham to a debate, but Graham has ignored Ravenel. If Graham had anything to worry about, he would not ignore Ravenel.

Democrat Brad Hutto, a long-shot, is also running for the US Senate. He has also ignored Ravenel's debate demands. Hutto would likey lose voters to Ravenel, since those two are similar in ideology, and the Democrat Party's brand has been so sullied by six years of Democrat failure, nationally.

RAVENEL FOR SENATE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EDISTO, S.C. – Lowcountry businessman and independent U.S. Senate candidate Thomas Ravenel today challenged U.S. Sen. John McCain to “step up to the plate” and debate him so that South Carolina voters can hear the views of his longtime liberal understudy, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham – who is refusing to participate in a series of citizen-driven debates.

 

“The puppet is too afraid to debate me so I might as well start challenging his puppet masters – beginning with John McCain,” Ravenel said.  “The people of South Carolina deserve a series of real debates in which their concerns are heard and their questions are asked and answered by the candidates.  If Lindsey Graham is too afraid to defend his views in such a forum – then I’m going to start challenging the powerful interests that are pulling his strings in Washington D.C.”

 

Last month Ravenel issued a debate challenge to Graham, Democratic nominee Brad Hutto and Libertarian candidate Victor Kocher.  He proposed a series of at least eleven debates in different parts of the state in which citizens would conduct the questioning of the candidates.

 

Graham is the only candidate who hasn't responded.

 

“Lindsey Graham has time to meet with Barack Obama nineteen times, to appear on all the  Sunday  morning talk shows and to fearmonger through the media – but apparently he doesn’t have the time to hear the concerns and face the criticisms of hard-working South Carolinians,” Ravenel said.  “That’s his prerogative, but by refusing to participate in these debates Lindsey Graham is telling South Carolinians that they aren’t worth his time.     He’s also telling them what many of them already know – that his abysmal record of wasting our tax dollars, attacking our liberties and unnecessarily harming our friends and loved ones in the military is indefensible.“

 

“If he won’t defend that record, maybe John McCain will,” Ravenel added.

 

Ravenel said that he would be issuing a series of debate challenges to Graham’s “puppet masters” over the coming weeks.

 

“The longer he refuses to participate in a series of public debates driven by South Carolinians like you the more I will expose him as being beholden to Washington's special interests,” Ravenel said. “If Lindsey Graham thinks he can run out the clock on this election, he’s got another thing coming. I'm not just going to shame him, I'm going to shame the interests subsidizing his ongoing betrayal of our state and its people.”

 

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