{"id":12366,"date":"2010-08-21T07:22:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T07:22:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-21T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T07:22:23","slug":"hunger-strike-day-8-fasting-candidates-to-confront-hunter-at-friday-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/21\/hunger-strike-day-8-fasting-candidates-to-confront-hunter-at-friday-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Strike Day 8: Fasting Candidates to confront Hunter at Friday event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA ADVISORY<br \/>\n<br \/>Ray Lutz for Congress 2010<br \/>\n<br \/>www.VoteRayLutz.com<br \/>\n<br \/>Media Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director<br \/>\n<br \/>619-447-3246 \/ brennan@VoteRayLutz.com<\/p>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p><h1>Hunger Strike Day 8: Fasting Candidates to confront Hunter at Friday event<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Candidates Lutz and Benoit lead demonstrations outside<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8220;Politics in Paradise event&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>San Diego County, Calif. (August 20, 2010) &#8211; Congressional Candidates Ray Lutz (Democratic) and Michael Benoit (Libertarian) will lead demonstrations at a candidate&#8217;s forum tonight featuring Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, whom they are seeking to debate.<br \/>\n<br \/>The two candidates have been fasting for 8 days, in effort to pressure Hunter to agree to a series of debates with them. Just yesterday, Hunter&#8217;s campaign delivered an acceptance letter Lutz&#8217;s office, agreeing to participate in one debate, scheduled for October 15.<\/p>\n<p>Lutz and Benoit have continued their fasting, citing the fact that 65 percent of voters in June&#8217;s primary election cast absentee ballots, with a high portion of them being returned within the first few days of receiving them. The vote-by-mail ballots will be distributed on October 4.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s rally will take place outside the Cuyamaca College Water Conservation Garden, between 5:30-6 p.m. Inside the event, Lutz will attempt to confront Hunter to change the date of the debate and to add at least three more debates prior to the distribution of vote-by-mail ballots.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Ray Lutz for Congress, visit: www.VoteRayLutz.com<br \/>\n<br \/>For media inquiries, contact Brennan Purtzer, media coordinator, at 619.447.3246<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA ADVISORY<br \/>\n<br \/>Ray Lutz for Congress 2010<br \/>\n<br \/>www.VoteRayLutz.com<br \/>\n<br \/>Media Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director<br \/>\n<br \/>619-447-3246 \/ brennan@VoteRayLutz.com<\/p>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p><h1>Hunger Strike Day 8: Fasting Candidates to confront Hunter at Friday event<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Candidates Lutz and Benoit lead demonstrations outside<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8220;Politics in Paradise event&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>San Diego County, Calif. (August 20, 2010) &#8211; Congressional Candidates Ray Lutz (Democratic) and Michael Benoit (Libertarian) will lead demonstrations at a candidate&#8217;s forum tonight featuring Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, whom they are seeking to debate.<br \/>\n<br \/>The two candidates have been fasting for 8 days, in effort to pressure Hunter to agree to a series of debates with them. Just yesterday, Hunter&#8217;s campaign delivered an acceptance letter Lutz&#8217;s office, agreeing to participate in one debate, scheduled for October 15.<\/p>\n<p>Lutz and Benoit have continued their fasting, citing the fact that 65 percent of voters in June&#8217;s primary election cast absentee ballots, with a high portion of them being returned within the first few days of receiving them. The vote-by-mail ballots will be distributed on October 4.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s rally will take place outside the Cuyamaca College Water Conservation Garden, between 5:30-6 p.m. Inside the event, Lutz will attempt to confront Hunter to change the date of the debate and to add at least three more debates prior to the distribution of vote-by-mail ballots.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Ray Lutz for Congress, visit: www.VoteRayLutz.com<br \/>\n<br \/>For media inquiries, contact Brennan Purtzer, media coordinator, at 619.447.3246<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[957,230,9195,9206,5173],"class_list":["post-12366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","tag-957","tag-230","tag-9195","tag-9206","tag-5173"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}