Republican candidates for the 3rd Congressional District, from left, Weston Wamp, Ron Bhalla and current U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann participate in the 3rd Congressional District Republican Debate held on Monday, May 21, 2012, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Roland Hayes Concert Hall in downtown Chattanooga, Tenn.
Yes-or-no questions don’t always get an easy answer from U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and his Republican challengers.
At Monday night’s 3rd District GOP primary debate, WRCB-TV anchor David Carroll asked Fleischmann, Ron Bhalla and Weston Wamp to assume they had won the Republican nomination. Would they debate the Democratic nominee?
Bhalla and Wamp said yes. Fleischmann praised “the debate process,” described it as “very, very informative” and said it was “what our Founding Fathers wanted.”
Carroll swiveled to a clearly confused Wamp.
“Did he commit to debate?” Wamp asked.