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RON PAUL CAMPAIGN ‘MONEYBOMB MASTERMIND’ MAPS THIRD PARTY DEBATE ACCESS
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RON PAUL CAMPAIGN ‘MONEYBOMB MASTERMIND’ MAPS THIRD PARTY DEBATE ACCESS
Trevor Lyman, the mastermind being the highly successful internet “money bomb” initiatives that brought record breaking millions into the Ron Paul presidential campaign, now has his efforts aimed at a televised presidential debate in New York City for October.
The criteria for the candidates included in the debates, six in all, are those who have their names on the ballot in states which contain a majority of the electoral college, making a presidential ”win” a theoretical possibility.
These candidates include Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party), Bob Barr (Libertarian Party), Cynthia McKinney (Green Party), Ralph Nader (independent), John McCain (Republican Party), and Barack Obama (Democratic Party).
Lyman indicates that if he recieves financial contributions of any amount, or “no minimum amount required” as his website indicates, from 10,000 participants by October 8, he will go ahead. The pledges will be allocated to the cost of promoting and airing the event.
The major glitch in the ambitious project is the particiation of John McCain or Barack Obama, who have a signed contracts with the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). It is presumed that these contracts ensure that both candidates abstain from participating in other, non CPD sanctioned events.
In the meantime, ten pro-democracy groups are pushing for public access to the contract between Obama, McCain, and the CPD. Open Debates spokesperson Geroge Farah declares on their website that,“ denying voters access to critical information about our most important political forums, the Commission on Presidential Debates is more concerned with the partisan interests of the two major party candidates than the democratic interests of the voting public.”
At a press conference before the Nader ‘Open the Debates’ Rally at Magness Arena, Denver University, on Aug. 27, Ralph Nader noted that there is no limit to sports information or entertainment information. “Why limit political debate in this country?”
As OpenDebates.com correctly indicates on their press release dated Sept.18, the “Commission on Presidential Debates was created by and for the Republican and Democratic parties. In 1986, the Republican and Democratic National Committees ratified an agreement ‘to take over the presidential debates’ from the nonpartisan League of Women Voters. Fifteen months later, then-Republican Party chair Frank Fahrenkopf and then-Democratic Party chair Paul Kirk incorporated the Commission on Presidential Debates. Fahrenkopf and Kirk still co-chair the Commission on Presidential Debates, and every four years it implements and conceals contracts jointly drafted by the Republican and Democratic nominees.”
As of this writing, Lyman and his fundraising website ThirdPartyTicket.com are more than 56 per cent of the way toward their Oct. 8 goal of 10,000 donations, with 5,517 pledges.
OpenDebates.com have made a pdf. copy of the Committee on Presidential Debates agreement between John Kerry and George Bush available here: http://www.opendebates.org/news/documents/debateagreement.pdf
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Public Illness over the manipulation of taxpayers funds will erode the halo from Obama and the Hero Aura from McCain. The failure of the parties to properly deal with the economy may have voters searching for better answers.
The following links will take you to Trevor Lyman’s Inititative:
http://www.thirdpartyticket.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Lyman
http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&q=trevor+lyman
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