Rick Lazio, the Republican frontrunner in the primary for New York governor, has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged Democratic nominee and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to a debate…a debate that focuses solely on the controversial plans to build a Muslim community center near Ground Zero.In a statement released yesterday, Lazio wrote that “the time to debate the Cordoba Mosque proposed to be built on the sacred land at Ground Zero is now.”
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