Dianne Feinstein and Tom Campbell will face each other in a pair of sit-down, one-hour televised U.S. Senate debates, their campaign staffs said Friday.
It will be the first time this year that Feinstein, the incumbent Democratic senator, and Campbell, a Republican House member representing a Silicon Valley district, will meet in their campaign for the U.S. Senate.
It was not known Friday how many stations planned to carry the debates, either live or via a tape delay.
The first debate will be televised at 11 a.m., Oct. 24, from the Santa Monica studios of Adelphia Communications, a Southern California cable television company. The encounter will be hosted by local commentator Bill Rosendahl.
The second debate is scheduled to be televised at 6 p.m., Oct. 27, from the studios of San Francisco television station KRON, which is sponsoring the debate along with the San Francisco Chronicle, public television station KQED and the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, a public affairs group.
The Campbell campaign also challenged Feinstein to five other television debates, including ones at KCAL in Los Angeles, KVIE in Sacramento and Univision in Los Angeles.
The two-debate schedule "ensures that most Californians will not see the two candidates discuss important issues. Californians deserve better," said Campbell spokesman Sean Walsh.
"We've been hammering her to debate for months," he added.
Feinstein spokesman Kam Kuwata said the two debates are all that will fit into the senator's schedule.
"We committed to two debates - one in the north and one in the south. These are debates that will be televised and available to a wide audience," Kuwata said.
The debates are expected to follow a format similar to those between vice presidential contenders Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney. The candidates responded to questions from a moderator and delivered two-minute closing statements.
Feinstein and Campbell will be seated during both debates, at least in part to accommodate Feinstein, who broke her leg last month at her Colorado vacation home and remains in a cast.
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