Sen. Richard Burr will appear before the N.C. Medical Society on Friday morning in Raleigh to talk about health care, but it won't with any of his possible Democratic opponents.
At one point, the Medical Society extended an invitation to include the Democrats considering running against Burr in 2010, Rob Christensen reports. But when the Democrats expressed no interest, the doctors decided to go back to their original format of just having Burr discussing the issue with a group of physicians.
In declining to participate, one of the Democrats, former state Sen. Cal Cunningham of Lexington, also got in a gig at Burr.
Cunningham wrote to Burr: "PS. You really should give up dipping snuff. I've found there is no future in it."
Update: A spokesman for the Medical Society said the organization decided to limit the event to Burr since it were unable to get a slate of Democratic candidates to attend. Kenneth Lewis, who previously said he wanted to debate Burr, says he intends to show up Friday ready to debate.
It was Burr who invited the Democratic candidates. Lewis accepted that invitation.
"In your letter of August 18th, you expressed your 'intent to offer a forum for a substantive debate with the hopes of better educating the public on the issue before the Congress," Lewis said in a statement. "Senator Burr, the North Carolina Medical Society has offered such a forum. Now all you need to do is show up and debate."
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Re: Burr, alone, will talk health care
leave it to a democrackkk to criticize one individual's OWN personal pleasure behavior like a little dip of snuff...WHY do democrackkks ALWAYS SEEK to CONTROL our lives?