Gloves Off: Foxx, Kennedy Debate Issues Before Full House

Published by High Country Press
Oct. 14, 2010
By Anna Oakes

At a debate in West Jefferson Tuesday, Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx called the 2010 mid-term election “the most important election in my lifetime” and often blamed Democrats for the country’s economic woes, while her opponent, Democrat Billy Kennedy, attempted to paint Foxx as a career politician beholden to corporate interests and vowed to put people over corporations.

The 90-minute debate, hosted by the New River Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), took place at the Ashe Civic Center in West Jefferson. The two candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives seat representing North Carolina’s Fifth Congressional District fielded questions from a panel of three local media professionals.

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