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run a challenge against state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria). Arcabascio is standing by his claim the Democrats pressured QPTV, and because of that, refused to let the station record him during a candidates’ forum held Monday. “I will not allow QPTV to tape me on Oct. 21 at St John’s University,” he said in his comment on the Queens Chronicle story. “It is my choice and I refuse to allow a public television station manipulate the public and the public’s perception of any candidate.” Jacobs said the station would adhere to Arcabascio’s demand. Brown said he missed the Oct. 10 debate because QPTV changed the time and told him the wrong one, and that he learned it had already been filmed from the other candidates. While he said he was the one who told the station not to air it, he said “it is possible” the Democratic establishment then pressured the station into refusing to film another forum between all three candidates. He said that would be because the party recognizes that he is “a threat,” having won about 14,000 votes in the primary while being outspent 50-1. Brown asked all the media to acknowledge that he’s a candidate on the ballot in November, because when they don’t, “It’s not just silencing me, it’s silencing everybody who signed my petitions — it’s not Q democracy.”
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continued from page 2 QPTV to film another debate with all three candidates, and that Arcabascio and Katz had both agreed to that, but the station wouldn’t do it. The Queens Democratic Party executive secretary bristled at the suggestion that his organization might have prompted QPTV’s decision. “Mr. Arcabascio not only has a big imagination, but he’s a liar, because that’s absolutely untrue,” said the executive secretary, Mike Reich. “I wouldn’t even know who at QPTV to call. It is an absolute lie by a person who in desperation is trying to gin something up because he’s probably going to lose by 50 points.” Reich added that it wouldn’t even be possible for the Democrats to have pressured QPTV because he was on vacation out of the country when the debate was filmed and the station decided against airing it. Asked if Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Bronx, Queens), the Queens Democratic chairman, could have made the call, Reich said the congressman was too busy working with the president to end the government shutdown at the time to do such a thing. Reich said he hadn’t even heard of Arcabascio, a technology executive with the Nor th Shore-LIJ health system, before seeing his name on the ballot, even though last year the candidate had
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