I’m disappointed in how the state’s political season turned out for the Governor’s mansion.

We won’t have a debate in the Governor’s race between incumbent Gov. Kay Ivey and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox.

Voters will choose either Ivey or Maddox on Nov. 6 in two weeks, but we won’t see them face to face discussing the state’s most important issues.

All we’re getting is both candidates speaking through the media and press releases.

Maddox challenged Gov. Ivey to a series of four two-hour debates, but she declined. Gov. Ivey said she has no plans to debate Maddox. Since the primary election in June, Gov. Ivey said only Maddox and the media were the only ones wanting a debate.

“I have no plans to debate my opponent,” Gov. Ivey said last month. “The Alabamians know my record, they know what I stand for.”

Chip Hill, Maddox’s Campaign Communications Director, accused Gov. Ivey of avoiding the issues.

“The last time a Governor refused to debate, within weeks of him taking office, he proposed nearly a billion dollar tax increase and went on to embroil the state in one its worse political scandals,” Hill said. “The people didn’t know what Robert Bentley was hiding then and we don’t know what Kay Ivey is hiding now.”

On Monday, the Maddox campaign released 45 pages of emails allegedly sent using a private email server between then-Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey and members of her staff between 2011 and 2014. The emails show communications between personal email accounts for Ivey and members of the lieutenant governor’s staff, according to CBS-42 in Birmingham.

“Given what a huge Hillary Clinton supporter Walt Maddox is, it’s not surprising private email servers are top of mind for him,” Gov. Ivey said in a statement. “While Governor Ivey is focused on breaking jobs records, we’d like to challenge Walt to try break one of his own records by telling the truth for an entire day.”

“The larger question is why were so many people on the Lt. Governor’s staff using private servers and not the Lt. Governor’s public email servers?” Hill said.

Like most statewide voters, I want to see Gov. Ivey and Maddox talk one-on-one about making Alabama great again. We all deserve that.

Too bad it won’t happen.