Questions remain about who at Arizona PBS or ASU decided to give Katie Hobbs an interview after she refused to participate in a debate with Kari Lake.
Democratic candidate for governor Katie Hobbs will get what she wanted after all — a televised Q&A without her Republican opponent, Kari Lake, interjecting or asking her questions as happens in a typical debate format.
University leaders cast their decision as a matter of journalistic fairness to both candidates, one that was separate from their two-decade partnership with the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission. The commission organizes the debates and severed ties after finding out — from reporters — that Hobbs was to get airtime after she refused to debate.
, a politics newsletter, on Wednesday. “But I did indicate that we need to continue to fulfill our mission of unbiased and non-partisan coverage of public figures and talk to important people in the public realm like Lake and Hobbs to have the public learn of their views, even if there is no debate.”
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