No-Show Stanton!
September 21, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 21, 2011
CONTACT: Daniel Scarpinato
Career-politician evades questions, cancels afternoon radio debate
PHOENIX – Last night, career-politician Greg Stanton continued his perpetual habit of evading tough questions and running from his record, namely raising water rates and favoring higher taxes.
Today, he’s ducking out of a pre-scheduled debate.
Both Stanton and Wes Gullett agreed to a live hour-long radio debate on KFNX 1100 AM, scheduled for this afternoon at 4 p.m. But Stanton has now backed out. Gullett still plans to attend and answer questions on-air.
“What is Greg Stanton afraid of? That voters will actually judge him on his record of raising water rates and growing the size of government?” said Gullett campaign spokesman Daniel Scarpinato. “Wes Gullett has put forward specific plans for how he will reform city government and get Phoenix working again. Greg Stanton is just another career-politician who won’t even answer questions.”
Stanton’s no-show follows his inability to answer simple questions directly at last night’s debate.
Stanton danced around the issue of whether he would repeal the food tax, eventually admitting he would not do so immediately, as Gullett has pledged.
But Stanton’s evasiveness was on greatest display in answer to a question on water rate increases (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWRCwfoCicU), which Stanton supported while on the City Council for nine years. After filibustering and providing a non-answer, Gullett asked Stanton directly: “I guess that means you were for it?”
Stanton sat silent for several seconds, looking down at the table, before looking up and only saying: “I have a record.”
Gullett is against further water-rate increases.
“Greg Stanton can’t run from his record,” Scarpinato said. “He might not want to show up for debates, but voters are learning more and more about Greg Stanton’s job-killing plans to raise taxes and increase the size of government.”
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