“Greens have to deal with this problem all the time. We need more people to do what you’re doing – writing to the media and to groups like CLCV requesting that our candidates be included. The reasons for exclusion can vary; sometimes it’s out of thoughtlessness, or just the usual conditioned response that ‘third parties don’t … See Morematter.’ If activist groups knew the long history of progressive reforms that were introduced to the mainstream by third parties, they wouldn’t shoot themselves in the foot by excluding third party candidates. Sometimes the exclusion is deliberate, done to satisfy members of the establishment parties. That is the most difficult to remedy, but when you know that an organization is partisan, at least you know what to expect. Anyway, work like this is very important, because once we get our candidates into a certain debate, newspaper or voter’s guide, we then have a precedent for future inclusion. “