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Salud Carbajal refuses to debate challenger Thomas Cole

August 31, 2024

Congressman Salud Carbajal

By KAREN VELIE

Congressman Salud Carbajal is refusing to debate his challenger arguing Thomas Cole’s views on border control and trans rights endanger the community. Cole responded by saying Carbajal is “chicken.”

The candidates had planned to attend a KEYT debate on Oct. 13.

“Thomas Cole’s campaign spews hateful rhetoric against LGBTQ+ individuals, using the same anti-trans conspiracies that put transgender lives at risk every single day in America,” according to Carbajal’s campaign. “Cole demonizes and fearmongers about immigrants fleeing violence and seeking asylum in the United States.”

Cole argues Carbajal is in line with other Democratic candidates who refuse to debate, censor free speech, and try to sideline their political opponents with lies and slander.

“I commend KEYT for being courageous enough for trying to give voters an opportunity to decide,” Cole responded. “Do they want open borders, endless wars, and school sports gender indoctrination? Sadly, Salud Carbajal is playing the chicken, hiding behind his taxpayer-funded newsletters and trying to trick and mislead the public.”

During the 2020 race, Carbajal backed out of one debate and then declined multiple requests to participate in public forums with his opponent Andy Caldwell.

 


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Good for Carbajal, who is going to win by at least 10 points. Why legitimize these right wing nut jobs and give them air time?


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Wait a minute, what I’ve been hearing from the legacy media a the national Democratic Party is how important the 2024 election is in preserving, even saving our democracy. How is this accomplishing that? I always thought that the answer to speech one disagrees with is more speech.


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Why should Carbajal waste his time debating someone who spews nonsense venom and is going to lose anyway? It’s almost as if the republicans don’t want to win with their never ending parade of nonsensical candidates


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if it is nonsensical venom, then it should be a no-brainer. Oops, I just the quiet part out loud.


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For a Marine, Carbajal sure is a coward. Let’s see him defend his positions.


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He doesn’t have to, he knows most people here just vote for whoever has a “D” by their name.


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things can change


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Yup! Just consider all of the votes Adam Hill got because he was a Democrat.


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A smart Marine only fights if he needs to.


-55

Wouldn’t you think, that being paid plenty of tax dollars to represent your district, is enough reason to “fight” and defend your ideology, and present your reasons to the public.


A smart Marine, will also take the initiative when he has the advantage…


25

“Wouldn’t you think,” No, that’s what you want, not the same thing.


“ defend your ideology” Why wrestle with a pig?


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He won’t debate because he doesn’t know how to debate. Hyperbole and strawman is all he has.

So much for “democracy”.


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Carbahal can’t give a straight answer at his so-called “town halls” to a simple question.


he reinterprets your question, then changes the topic.


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Carbajal will win, the advantages he has as incumbent are real. Nonetheless, it is a public service and duty to let your constituents see you opine in public with your main opponent. I think this is laziness from a relatively inarticulate and below average Member of Congress. Come on Marine, where’s your fighting energy?


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he is the puppet of the SB rich democrats


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his intent is to hide his true stripes from the public.


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Carbajal continues to prove he is two faced liar and a coward.


66

Names, that all you have?


-52

Here is something concrete for you: My husband is a psychologist who opted out of being a Medicare provider years ago because we are a solo office and I’m stuck doing onerous paperwork I don’t have time for. He decided to re-enroll for the program because he was getting desperate seniors who needed the help and couldn’t even afford his (for them) greatly reduced fees. We learned from Medicare it would take nearly A YEAR just to get his name back on the list with minor paperwork.because we had to wait until the next enrollment period. We wrote to Carbajal and told him of the need to help seniors and could his office investigate ways to speed up this process. The only answer we got was a lengthy response outlining all the ways he has done such a wonderful job and please re-elect me. I wrote back and congratulated him, but added he did not address the urgent reason for our appeal. Crickets was all I got back. And this is not all the non-answers we have received from his office. Ditto for Dawn Addis.We are fed up with these kinds of politicians.


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“Who opted out of being a Medicare provider years ago, He decided to re-enroll for the program, it would take nearly A YEAR just to get his name back on the list.”


Something concrete for you, he opted out years ago, everything Medicare takes time, it’s not on Carbajal.


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Like I’ve said before, until Republicans nominate common sense conservatives who believe in climate change, respect the rights of women and don’t fear monger on the issues of immigration and the LGBTQ community, they will continue to lose elections in California. Cole is a MAGA extremist who would do nothing to help the people in our area.


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Why must Conservatives embrace your platform and ideas, in order to have “common sense”?


Why not, instead, you embrace our platform of firearm ownership with no infringements, voting only with valid ID, legal entrance to the country only, don’t kill babies, fewer taxes, less government, and unleash capitalism?


It’s only common sense.


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Well, how are those positions working out for you? Democrats have overwhelming majorities in both houses of the state legislature and in the House and Senate. There are ZERO Republicans in statewide offices. I’m just saying that Republicans may want to temper their rhetoric if they wish to get elected in Calufornia.


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Or clean up the voter rolls…. and our elections…


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I wouldn’t debate a grown man who name calls either. And both sides of the isles runs endless wars, outside of Socialist party; who condemn it all, like Jewish Senator Sanders, who condemns Israel and Ukraine, come on here. You can’t be against Ukraine or Isis but be Pro Israel, literally all the same in the eyes of the DoD and the war industrial complex. Political and religious affiliation are literally just words to the rich and mean absolutely nothing, it’s literally just tools to brainwash the masses.


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false, look back through history and you will see a stark pattern.


D’s start wars and R’s get us out of them. just a fact you’d find interesting if you were to check it yourself: but you won’t,your revisionist history keeps you from the facts.


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Not so true recently. It was George W. Bush, a Republican, who invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and it was Democrats Obama (pulled troops out of Iraq in 2011) and Biden (ended American hostilities in Afghanistan in 2021) who ended those wars. Or is that revisionist history?


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Biden’s abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan was a disaster, you really should acknowledge that. Women and school girls have been devastated there as a result, and what about those American and Afghan casualities, eh? Pretty shameful.


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