Comment by Jim Campbell
It would seem the writers even from her own home town newspaper are on to the 79 year-old senior Senator from CA.
They are also asking her to defend her record as woeful as it is.
Clearly the arrogant, anointed one hopes to sneak to the finish line without debating Elizabeth Emken.
San Francisco Chronicle
By Joe Garfofoli
Elizabeth Emken is the Danville Republican who has taken on a task that few — no, make that, NO — big name Republicans had the guts to do: Challenge Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Feinstein has refused to debate her. No, not even at 3 a.m. on a Saturday on a cable access station in Turlock. As Feinstein’s campaign manager Bill Carrick told us a while back after Emken challenged DiFi to a series of debates : “This is the sort of typical cliche move from someone is 19 points down and has $25,000 in the bank and 35 percent name recognition,” Carrick said.
Editorial boards all up and down California — including our very own Ivory Tower-dwellers — have called out Feinstein for the democracy dodge.
Emken ramped it up when the San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com’s Shaky Hand Productions video crew caught up with her. She called DiFi “arrogant” and “dismissive” for not agreeing to debate:
Elizabeth Emken: Dianne Feinstein “arrogant” for not debating
Elizabeth Emken US Senate CA 2012 