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Broome County Executive Debate 2012
On October 25th, 2012, the League of Women Voters hosted a debate at Broome Community College between Broome County Executive candidates Debbie Preston and Tarik Abdelazim. In their opening statements, both candidates requested "civil" and "respectful" discussion. Here's how it went!
- A complete audio archive from the October 25th Broome County Executive debate can be found here:
Broome County Executive Debate | WSKG.orgCandidates for Broome County Executive faced off in a spirited debate on the campus of Broome Community College. Incumbent Republican Deb...- A complete video archive, a photo gallery and a written round-up can be found here:
Preston, Abdelazim engage in spirited, contentious Broome debate
DICKINSON - In a spirited and sometimes contentious debate that mirrored the tone of the heated political race, the candidates for Broome...- WSKG presents this Storify in chronological order, starting with a few hours lead-up to the event, progressing through the complete debate and concluding with some thoughts from the audience and background info on the candidates.
- The Broome County Executive debate livetweet was brought to you by WSKG's Teresa Peltier, and our WSQX over-the-air broadcast was made possible by WSKG's Ken Campbell and Crystal Sarakas. Nice work to WSKG's Bill Jaker, who moderated. [more local election coverage at wskgelection.tumblr.com]
Livetweets from #Broome County Executive debate - Live at 6:30pm! tmblr.co/ZUA3-tVz7X4u #WSKGelection- Key for tonight's #Broome debate: DP = Debbie Preston; TA = Tarik Abdelazim; Mod = moderator; Q = audience question #wskgelection
- Our very own Bill Jaker is at the table, ready to moderate #Broome Exec. debate b/w @PrestonBroomeCo & Tarik Abdelazim #wskgelection
Tweets from #Broome executive debate between #Preston and #Abdelazim at 7 p.m. tonight; live video at pressconnects.com ... #bingelex- Coming Up: opening comments at the #Broome County Exec. debate. Hear from @prestonbroomeco 1st & Tarik Abdelazim 2nd #WSKGelection
- Things kicked off promptly at 7:00pm.
- The candidates tonight, whichever is elected, will serve 200,000 people and oversee a $360million budget #Broome #WSKGelection
- .@prestonforbroome is the incumbent Republican candidate; Abdelazim is the challenging Democratic #Broome #WSKGelection
- Moderator Bill Jaker gave each candidate 3 minutes for their opening remarks. Debbie Preston started...
- "I believe that tonight's debate should be respectful and civil" DP #Broome #WSKGelection
- Jobs remain my #1 priority, $20million Job Incubation - DP #Broome #WSKGelection
- "I'm here to tell you that i really do not care who takes the credit... My job is to get it done." #Broome #WSKGelection
- cutting salaries, taking away county cars, "stopped kicking the can down the road... in short we took tough decisions" #Broome #WSKGelection
- ...Tarik Abdelazim followed with his opening remarks.
- "Traditions, family, home: that's what this is all about" TA #Broome #WSKGelection
