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Subject: Commission Says Gore-Bush Only; Responses Available
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 23:28:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Institute for Public Accuracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Debate Commission Says Gore-Bush Only; Responses Available
The Commission on Presidential Debates has formally announced that it
intends to exclude all third party candidates from the presidential debates.
Phil Donahue (who is a member of the Committee to Elect Ralph Nader
President) wrote in the Sunday Los Angeles Times: "If Ralph Nader is
excluded from the presidential debates, many issues important to millions of
Americans will get little or no attention during the corporate sponsored
face-offs between the two major party candidates" -- e.g. drug war, death
penalty, trade, national health insurance.
The following are among those available for interviews:
JAMIN RASKIN, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Law professor at American University, Raskin represented Ross Perot in 1996,
chairs the Appleseed Citizens' Task Force on Fair Debates and has advised
the Nader campaign on the debate issue. He said today: "The 15 percent rule
is utterly lawless. It triples the 5 percent rule in federal law for
qualifying for
public financing in a presidential campaign." Raskin added: "Nothing stops
Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush from setting up an
exclusionary debate, but these debates are paid for by large corporations
like Anheuser-Busch, which is contributing $550,000. The corporate funding
makes these exclusionary debates an illegal corporate contribution."
JEFF COHEN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.fair.org/debates.html
Cohen is head of Open Debates 2000, a project of the media watch group
FAIR. Cohen said today: "The CPD is not 'nonpartisan' as it claims, it's a
creation of the Democratic and Republican parties. A recent Zogby poll of
1,000 likely voters found that 60 percent want Nader and Buchanan
included -- and people who are not 'likely voters' may be even more
sympathetic to third party candidates."
JEFF MILCHEN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ReclaimDemocracy.org
Director of ReclaimDemocracy.org, Milchen said today: "The CPD is not a
legitimate institution. In 1992, Perot would have been banned from the
debates under the CPD's current 15 percent standard, as would Jesse Ventura
in 1998."
ADAM EIDINGER, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.sinker.org
Eidinger is with the Open Debate Society. He said: "I was among the
activists who occupied the offices of Wagner Communications and Brewer
Consulting Group, the only known address of the CPD, for 40 minutes on Sept.
20. Our aim was to put a face to the name of the CPD, a stealthy private
corporation controlled by the Republican and Democratic parties." On Sept.
28, activists will attempt to shut down those offices. Eidinger added that
"after this action we are going to join thousands to protest for open
debates in Boston," the site of the first scheduled presidential debate.
[The CPD (http://www.debates.org) can be reached at (202) 872-1020.]
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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