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A senate debate held at a retirement home in southeast Denver turned into a game of “he said, she said” Tuesday afternoon.
Lane, top, and FosterFTS Staff Photo
A candidate forum intended to introduce Windsor Gardens residents to state legislative candidates found two state Senate opponents trading barbs over what was said at the previous debate.
Bob Lane, the Republican candidate for Senate District 35, asked his opponent Joyce Foster, a Democrat, to apologize for launching what he characterized as a “vicious, personal attack” at their second meeting.
Lane was referring to a previous debate at Kent Denver High School where he said Foster “pointed out that she was getting educated before I was born and yelled out that I was a tall, white blue blood from Wall Street.”
Lane also recalled that Foster called him the night after the Kent debate and left him an apologetic voicemail. He said he decided to wait to accept her apology until she provided it again in front of witnesses and the media.
Foster declined, chalking the whole incident up to a misunderstanding. She said she did not hear Lane correctly when he called her “new blood” during the previous debate. She maintains that she heard “blue blood”. She did not, however, deny making remarks about Lane's age or calling him "a tall, white, blue blood from Wall Street."
Foster defended herself by saying, “I am thoughtful, I am positive and I am very respectful.”
In an interview after Tuesday's event, Lane alleged that a double standard was at play, saying if he had made similar remarks about Foster’s Judaism, there would have been a “public outrage.”
He claimed that parents and students at Kent Denver came up to him afterward to express their disappointment with Foster's remarks. Foster said students also came up to her to express their outrage over Lane's behavior.
On Tuesday, Lane also alleged that Foster has a history of contradicting herself. During their first debate hosted at Denver's Channel 8 on Sept. 23, when asked about the controversial personhood amendment Foster said, “I am 100 percent against Amendment 48 and not it’s just because I am pro-choice, I am pro-life too.” The debate can be viewed at the Denver 8 Web site.
Senate District 35 is currently represented by term-limited Sen. Ken Gordon, a Democrat who serves as Senate Majority Leader.
Racism
On October 17th, 2008 1uncle says:
There is some racism in each group and that includes blacks. That is not often mentioned. Consider. The democrats have bought the black vote via 'The Great Society' and Maybe arranged terrrible home loans to make themselves look good.We know the blacks would vote for Hillary if Nobama were white. Other than being black, 'No' has no qualifications-not even as much as Sarah.