By Paddy
I'm doing a awful lot of laughing at the Republicans today. These chickens have been so entrenched in South Florida politics that they're probably having vapors over having to defend their seats. Click on the link to read about all the scrambling and uh, lying they did to get out of the debates.
Miami's three Cuban-American Republicans have scrapped plans to participate in a series of debates with their Democratic challengers.
The South Florida AFL-CIO, which in recent years has hosted debates for mayor and governor, planned three debates next week for the nationally watched races. But the Republicans said this week they're not going, throwing the bipartisan nature of the event into doubt.
The union -- which endorsed the three incumbents in 2006 -- says the events will go on next week as scheduled. All three Democrats, who represent the first significant challenge to the incumbents, say they plan to attend and suggested the GOP'ers were reluctant to spar face-to face.
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