{"id":12426,"date":"2010-04-07T16:06:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=12426"},"modified":"2010-05-11T16:25:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T20:25:39","slug":"uconn-to-host-gubernatorial-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/04\/uconn-to-host-gubernatorial-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn to Host Gubernatorial Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12451\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Coin007_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12451  img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"James Leahy, right, executive director of the Connecticut Daily Newspapers Association, flips a coin in the press room at the State Capitol to determine the party order for the gubernatorial debates.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Coin007_lg-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;James Leahy, right, executive director of the Connecticut Daily Newspapers Association, flips a coin to determine the party order for the gubernatorial debate to be held on April 21 at the UConn School of Law. Paul Hughes of the Waterbury Republican-American looks on. Photo by Peter Morenus&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Coin007_lg-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Coin007_lg.jpg 700w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/229;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Leahy, right, executive director of the Connecticut Daily Newspapers Association, flips a coin in the press room at the State Capitol to determine the party order for the gubernatorial debates. Paul Hughes of the Waterbury Republican-American looks on. Photo by Peter Morenus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of Connecticut and the Connecticut Daily Newspapers Association are co-sponsoring two upcoming debates between the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor of Connecticut on Wednesday, April 21 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. The debates will take place in the Reading Room of the William F. Starr Hall on the UConn Law School campus in Hartford.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates for the Republican gubernatorial nomination will debate from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. There will then be a break to allow the candidates to interact with students and members of the University community. The Democratic candidates will debate from 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. The order was determined by a coin toss.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the debates will be the future of higher education in the state and how the education-workforce pipeline can best enhance the long-term vitality of Connecticut\u2019s economy, and other topics. The format will include three moderators who will ask questions of the candidates: a UConn undergraduate, a UConn law student, and a member of the Connecticut news media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12452\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Coin012_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12452  img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"With heads the result, Republicans will go first.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Coin012_lg-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;With heads as the result of a coin flip, Republicans will go first during the gubernatorial debates to be held on April 21. Photo by Peter Morenus&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With heads the result, Republicans will go first.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All the declared candidates have been invited. As of today the following Democratic candidates have accepted: Juan Figueroa, Mary Glassman, Ned Lamont, Dan Malloy, and Rudy Marconi.<\/p>\n<p>The following Republican candidates have also accepted as of today: Lawrence Denardis, Michael Fedele, Tom Foley, R. Nelson Griebel, and Thomas Marsh.<\/p>\n<p>Directions to the Law School and a campus map are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconn.edu\/law-campus.php\">on the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law School will host two debates between the Democratic and Republican candidates on April 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-12426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 19:32:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14455,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions\/14455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}