ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, March 7, 1996 TAG: 9603070062
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: RICHMOND
SOURCE: WARREN FISKE
The only debate scheduled between the two Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate was canceled Tuesday after challenger Jim Miller presented a last-minute list of demands.
The Virginia Federation of Republican Women scratched the Friday event in Williamsburg after Miller said he would participate only if incumbent John Warner would debate four more times.
Warner declined, saying a busy Senate schedule this spring prevented him from committing to more debates.
The three-term senator said he thinks the lesser-known Miller is hoping publicity from a series of debates would help him become better known to voters.
"I'm not going to carry my opponent across the state and introduce him to voters," Warner said in January when initially refusing to commit to debates.
Miller, a former federal budget director in the Reagan administration, said in January he would participate in the federation's debate.
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