Does Congressman Wally Herger have Alzheimer's Disease?

Everyone in the north state has been talking about the bizarre behavior by Representative Wally Herger, The issue came up during a League of Women Voters debate that Congressman Wally Herger ducked under circumstances so strange the Chico Independent-Record editorialized against it today.

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So I'm Jim Reed. I really wish that Wally was here tonight. I'm disappointed, not so much because you're not going to be able to see the contrast between our political issues because you can go to our website and you'll see what our views are on the political issues. You pretty much know that Wally Herger's pretty much out there on the right wing; I'm pretty much in the middle as a moderate Democrat. But what we miss by not having Wally Herger here is to see the personal. And a lot of you say, Well, he's been in office for 24 years, we know what Wally Herger's like. But has he grown old and tired? Or, does he have the fire in the belly? That's what we need to know.
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Let me end by saying this. We have a debate, Wally Herger and I have a debate scheduled for October 25th, to be televised on KIXE. I am absolutely convinced that wouldn't have happened but for a newspaper article that came out from a Chico paper last week that identified some unusual behavior and suggested that maybe he's not willing to debate Reed because he has an illness, perhaps Alzheimer's. The next day, we had a debate [scheduled]. Now that was the right thing for Wally to do because the easiest way to just get rid of a rumor like that, a terrible rumor, and that's a terrible disease, is to debate. But the problem with choosing October 25th for that debate is, it should have been today. If on October 25th he finds an excuse why he can't be there, he gets called back to Washington, there's just not enough time to reschedule it. So, and it even suggests that maybe this is a ploy that he never intended to debate at all if he doesn't show up on October 25th. So anyway, let's stay tuned, I truly hope he will. I'm Jim Reed running for Congress. I ask for your vote. Thank you.

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