HALFMOON—Why attend a televised debate when you can gain all the publicity with none of the hassle?
For 57 minutes, five television cameras remained fixed on Jim Tedisco as he stood, his collar open as broadly as his smile, answering questions from a standing-room-only crowd in his campaign headquarters as part of a “people’s town hall.”
The three local network affiliates were there, as well as the 24-hour cable news channel and even a camera and reporter for Fox News. All were rolling as Tedisco answered animatedly before an Orwellian montage of 35 of his campaign signs. The Tedisco campaign also billed this event as “Jim Tedisco in 3-D,” referring to people asking him questions in person, via phone and over the Interweb through Facebook and Twitter.
