{"id":1687673,"date":"2022-10-13T08:20:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687673"},"modified":"2022-10-13T08:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:20:53","slug":"arizona-pbs-faces-backlash-after-it-unilaterally-caved-to-democrat-katie-hobbs-and-bucked-azs-debate-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-pbs-faces-backlash-after-it-unilaterally-caved-to-democrat-katie-hobbs-and-bucked-azs-debate-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona PBS Faces Backlash After It \u2018Unilaterally Caved To Democrat Katie Hobbs\u2019 And Bucked AZ\u2019s Debate Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-pbs-faces-backlash-after-it-unilaterally-caved-to-democrat-katie-hobbs-and-bucked-azs-debate-commission%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687673&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Arizona PBS faced backlash Wednesday afternoon after it made the unilateral decision to host an event with Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs after Hobbs refused to participate in a debate against her Republican opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission canceled a solo interview that was scheduled for Wednesday with Republican challenger Kari Lake after Arizona PBS announced the Hobbs interview. When a candidate in Arizona agrees to a debate but the opponent refuses to participate, the commission gives the candidate that opted to participate their own question and answer session in lieu of the debate since they were the one willing to stand up to scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning\u2019s announcement came the day a longtime scheduled Gubernatorial event was to be taped and broadcast featuring candidate Kari Lake,\u201d the Clean Elections Commission said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZCCEC\/status\/1580307682879188993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. \u201cThis decision is disappointing, especially following the multiple attempts on behalf of all the partners involved in producing this year\u2019s General Election debates, to organize a traditional Gubernatorial debate between the two candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a matter of state law and under the direction of its Commissioners, Clean Elections proceeded with its obligation to arrange a Q &#038; A interview for candidates who agreed to debate but whose opponent elected not to participate, which is how the Q &#038; A with candidate Kari Lake scheduled for tonight on Arizona PBS came to fruition,\u201d the commission continued. \u201cThe Commission and Arizona PBS followed the same process during the 2022 and 2018 Gubernatorial primaries. Thus today\u2019s announcement broke from our shared practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The commission said that in light of Arizona PBS\u2019s decision that they would \u201cneed to obtain additional information regarding the last-minute developments, the Commission will postpone tonight\u2019s Q &#038; A on Arizona PBS and will identify a new venue, partner, and date when the interview will be broadcast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission\u2019s commitment and obligation under state law is to produce unbiased, fair opportunities for candidates to speak to voters,\u201d the commission added. \u201cWe intend to make good on that commitment and our commitment to a transparent decision making process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel slammed Arizona PBS for the move, calling it \u201coutrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPBS unilaterally caved to Democrat Katie Hobbs, despite the objections from Arizona\u2019s debate commission,\u201d McDaniel continued. \u201cArizonans deserve a debate. The biased media needs to stop aiding and abetting Hobbs\u2019s cowardice!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lake said in a statement that Arizona PBS \u201cbailed [Hobbs] out\u00a0from the consequences of her cowardly decision to avoid debating me on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is outrageous. PBS unilaterally caved to Democrat Katie Hobbs, despite the objections from Arizona\u2019s debate commission. <\/p>\n<p>Arizonans deserve a debate. The biased media needs to stop aiding and abetting Hobbs\u2019s cowardice!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wNtaCKx1qx\">https:\/\/t.co\/wNtaCKx1qx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPChairwoman\/status\/1580295379714985984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat an embarrassment for @azpbs,\u201d said Jesse Hunt, communications director for the Republican Governors Association. \u201cWorking with the Arizona Democrat nominee for governor to blindside the Clean Elections Commission is pretty low, even by Arizona media standards Hobbs is scared to debate @KariLake and AZ PBS is here to help her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona PBS faced backlash Wednesday afternoon after it made the unilateral decision to host an event with Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs after Hobbs refused to participate in a debate against her Republican opponent. The Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission canceled a solo interview that was scheduled for Wednesday with Republican challenger Kari Lake after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/arizona-pbs-faces-backlash-after-it-unilaterally-caved-to-democrat-katie-hobbs-and-bucked-azs-debate-commission","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}