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Scott Gabriel Knowles | Thu, Nov 22nd, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: obama, new orleans, scott gabriel knowles, katrina, presidential campaign, times picayunne, edwards, phantom urban debate, urban debate | 0
This week the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the locations for the three candidate match-ups next fall: Oxford, Mississippi, Nashville, and Hempstead, New York. Louisiana elected officials and New Orleanians immediately decried the Crescent City’s absence from the list of three. Senator Mary Landrieu noted in a Times-Picayune article that New Orleans was the only city of the sixteen applicants to have bipartisan support among the candidates, including Democratic Senators…
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