{"id":181728,"date":"2016-04-03T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/03\/the-night-of-the-ncaa-finals-seriously\/"},"modified":"2016-04-03T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T17:53:00","slug":"the-night-of-the-ncaa-finals-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/03\/the-night-of-the-ncaa-finals-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night of the NCAA Finals?  Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns are negotiating a time for their New York debate, and Hillary wants it tomorrow night, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2016\/04\/02\/clinton-and-sanders-squabble-over-new-york-debate-dates\/\">while the NCAA basketball finals are on the air<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns are still negotiating over the timing of a debate before the New York primary on April 19th, with no resolution in sight.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mrs. Clinton\u2019s campaign released a statement Saturday saying they had offered the Sanders campaign three possible dates for what would be the ninth debate between the Democratic presidential hopefuls.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">All were rejected, Clinton press spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe Sanders campaign needs to stop with the games,\u201d Mr. Fallon said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a statement issued later, Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said the dates and locations proposed by the Clinton campaign \u201cdon\u2019t make a whole lot of sense.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe have proposed other dates which they have rejected,\u201d he added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe hope we can reach agreement in the near future,\u201d Mr Briggs continued. \u201cThe people of New York and America deserve to see and hear a debate on the important issues facing the state and country.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In his statement, Mr. Fallon said the Clinton campaign agreed to debate on April 4th, April 14th or April 15th.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Clinton campaign&#8217;s 15<sup>th<\/sup> suggestion is in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>They <b>really<\/b> don&#8217;t want to debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns are negotiating a time for their New York debate, and Hillary wants it tomorrow night, while the NCAA basketball finals are on the air: The Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns are still negotiating over the timing of a debate before the New York primary on April 19th, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107,965,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-hillary-clinton","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}