CAMPAIGN HEATS UP:
HARBAUGH CAMPAIGN CALLS "CONGRESSMAN" BOB GIBBS A LIAR!
On October 4th, the news media of Knox County (Mount Vernon area) combined to sponsor a debate among various candidacies for public office connected to Knox County at Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
(LINK to video/Harbaugh appears at about the 1:48 mark)
Harbaugh (the challenging Democratic candidate) in the 7th Congressional District which includes most of Stark County (note: Stark County is the largest part of the district in terms of voting population) to Republican and incumbent candidate Bob Gibbs (first elected in November, 2012) showed up at debate but Gibbs did not.
Here is how KnoxPages.Com (LINK) put Gibbs failure to appear:
Tonight Candidate Ken Harbaugh will be in Canton yet once again as he has campaigned frequently in Stark County and, indeed, across the district since he announced his candidacy in June, 2017.
Harbaugh's campaign might be peaking at the right time as we head into the final 30 days of the November general election.
In this week alone, Harbaugh has three Stark County appearances (see graphics below) scheduled including tonight's at the McKinley Grand Hotel in a Town Hall event for all Stark County connected general election political races sponsored by the Stark Community Foundation's Canton Neighborhood Leadership Council beginning at 5:00 p.m.
In that the Canton Neighborhood Leadership Council bills itself as being "non-partisan," tonight event seems to be a perfect fit for Harbaugh whose campaign them is Country Over Party.
The question is: Will Bob Gibbs surprise us all and show up tonight?
Probably not, but the voters of the 7th can hope, no?
Gibbs has promised KnoxPages.Com that Gibbs is saying he will debate Harbaugh later this month at Ashland University located in Ashland County.
If Gibbs shows up tonight, it might be indication he will make good on his promise to the KnoxPages.Com and voters who want to make a side-by-side (somewhat in depth) comparison will have an opportunity at Ashland.
In that the Canton Neighborhood Leadership Council bills itself as being "non-partisan," tonight event seems to be a perfect fit for Harbaugh whose campaign them is Country Over Party.
The question is: Will Bob Gibbs surprise us all and show up tonight?
Probably not, but the voters of the 7th can hope, no?
Gibbs has promised KnoxPages.Com that Gibbs is saying he will debate Harbaugh later this month at Ashland University located in Ashland County.
If Gibbs shows up tonight, it might be indication he will make good on his promise to the KnoxPages.Com and voters who want to make a side-by-side (somewhat in depth) comparison will have an opportunity at Ashland.
The Stark County Political Report can confirm the inaccessibility of Congressman Bob Gibbs going back to April of this year.
From an earlier blog (LINK):
The local Shelby media was allowed access to the event.
Hiding from the voting public or only appearing in pre-screened "safe" campaign appearances seem to be an intentional Republican candidate strategy in much of the country.
Above all else, Ralph Regula was supremely accessible to the constituents of the 16th Congressional district.
The SCPR has asked for but denied an interview by the Gonzalez campaign.At least Anthony Gonzalez does have basic communication skills.
Even Gibbs local Republican supporters say that additional reason that he does not make many public appearances is that he a highly inarticulate.
Bob Gibbs has strong ties to President Donald Trump who "you know, I know and everybody knows" is likely America's greatest presidential liar ever. (to use Trump's rhetorical style against him and his "elected" political allies)
It appears that Gibbs is taking a page out of the Donald J. Trump of lying when it suits him, no?
Fast forward to the days following the Mount Vernon event.
This is what the Harbaugh campaign has to say about Gibbs' failure to appear in Mount Vernon:
Yesterday, on Oct. 4, 2018, Ken Harbaugh attended a debate at Mount Vernon Nazarene University. Congressman Bob Gibbs declined to attend saying “he was working in DC that night.”
But, earlier that evening, Gibbs was spotted at a Meet the Candidates event in Dover, Ohio. Harbaugh was in attendance at that event, too.
Congress is currently in recess, so there are no votes in DC that Gibbs has to attend to at present. When a representative from Gibbs’s DC office was called and asked about the Congressman’s whereabouts, he stated that, “Congress is in recess, so Representative Gibbs will not be in DC this month.”
So why did Gibbs’s campaign say he would be in Washington when he was really in Ohio? And, if he was in the district, why did he not attend the candidate’s debate? Is Gibbs afraid to meet his constituents?
The last sentence of the Harbaugh campaign statement says it all, no"
It is hard for the SCPR seeing any Stark Countian voting for the "inaccessible" Bob Gibbs on the accessibility matter alone.
Before anyone gets to talk to Bob Gibbs about a federal government problem he/she is experiencing, he undoubtedly will be checking to see whether or not the person is a registered Republican and better yet, did the person contribute to the Gibbs campaign?
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