I just got an email from the Catfish Club 7th San Diego City Council debate - looks like Marti Emerald is a "No Show" after having confirmed. I have a theory:

Marti Emerald has spent her life exposing other people. On the Hedgecock Show Wednesday, as noted in earlier blogs on Red County, she was openly exposed as a liar. She knows what is coming now that she has been taped on both sides of a number of issues. She knows that there is probably much, much more and that this is only the start. She knows that what she and most of the rest of the public thought was going to be a cakewalk is now going to get really rough, and that her reputation, for the rest of her life, has already been seriously tarnished. Life over the next several weeks cannot be looking pleasant for her.

I'm arguing that she may have been seriously broken by what happened on the Hedgecock Show. I'm not at all sure she will ever face public questions again. In fact, my guess is we will see very little of Marti for the rest of the campaign.