At Least One Debate

It seems there's a bit of a dust-up between the Hackett and Carney campaigns over Hackett's proposed debate schedule.

The Carney campaign asserted that discussions were already underway to schedule debates between the two when the Hackett campaign sent out a press release decrying Carney to be a debate dodger.

One particular issue appears to be whether a deadline was missed on Monday. Mark Harris claimed the Hackett campaign was supposed to have definitive word on Monday, but were never contacted. Carney campaign manager Vincent Raggione went so far as to call the Monday deadline a flat-out "lie."

The Carney campaign did confirm that one debate had been scheduled--a WVIA debate on October 28th.

UPDATE: Congressman Carney responds, "He (Hackett) is flat out not telling the truth. We have maintained contact and conversations about debates several times. He is just trying to throw as much mud as possible and hope something sticks...Just because (Mr. Hackett) wants to debate doesn’t necessarily mean we are going to debate eight times. We have one scheduled and we’ll see from there. If he’s out there saying that I’m afraid to debate, that is absolutely untrue."

I'm just curious how big of an issue the 8 debates are to the Hackett camp. It seems one of the sticking points between the two sides is the quantity of debates they have as Hackett seems to be taking an all or nothing approach.