“If you’re the incumbent, you want to stay above the political fray,” Bolling says.
Kressel says she disapproves of Menino’s lack of expressed interest in debate.
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“He doesn’t have press conferences, he doesn’t come to community meetings, and now he’s not having debates,” Kressel says.
But the Menino campaign says that debates are premature-citing the fact that the deadline for announcing candidacies has not yet been reached, and that Menino has not yet officially declared that he’s seeking reelection.
“It’s premature to talk about a debating schedule. Between now and July 10 [the deadline for nominating papers] anybody else could get into the race,” says Kelley.
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