Posted at Cynthia McKinney’s YouTube site are a series of responses to questions posed at the Presidential debate. Addressing the economic crisis, she begins with calls for a moratorium on foreclosures, renegotiating mortgages, and banning predatory lending and adjustable rate mortgages.

The other videos in the series address the Iraq War, the US relationship with [...]

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Jesse Johnson, Mountain Party candidate for Governor of West Virginia, is suing the organizers of the debates to require them to include all ballot qualified candidates.
Said Johnson:
“If we continue letting corporations ‘filter’ our political debate, voters will go to the polls with only partial information. We need transparency in the political process, [...]

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In a release today Cynthia McKinney has offered to step in and debate Barack Obama in Mississippi this Friday if John McCain won’t do it.
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney has offered to debate Barack Obama if John McCain’s opts out at this Friday’s presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi, following the [...]

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The League of Women Voters (LWV), historical champions of democracy and debate inclusiveness, has decided to exclude third party candidates in LWV sponsored debates across Connecticut.
From NorwalkPlus.com:
In a letter sent to several aspiring candidates on Monday, League Vice President Pat Donovan wrote: “Using criteria reaffirmed by the League of Women Voters in April [...]

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Steve Larrick, the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Nebraska, wasn’t allowed in last night’s candidate debate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The debate was sponsored by the American Legion Cornhusker Boys State as part of a week long government leadership program for 400 high school boys. Larrick and other Green Party members protested [...]

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Steve Larrick is on the ballot in Nebraska’s Senatorial campaign, but apparently that is not enough for the fine folks at the American Legion Boys State in Lincoln. In a city named after a third party candidate, the American Legion is telling two qualified candidates to bug off. Larrick and the nominee of [...]

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From the AP:
Associated Press - June 2, 2008 6:55 PM ET
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The Nebraska Green Party says it will protest an upcoming political debate because its candidate for U.S. Senate isn’t allowed to participate.
The U.S. Senate debate will be held Thursday afternoon at Kimball Hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It will closed [...]

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In Nebraska, four candidates will be on the ballot in November for the US Senate, but only two will be presented to voters as the other two are already being excluded from scheduled debates.
Mike Johanns and Scott Kleeb have agreed to debate on June 5 in Lincoln, but Steve Larrick (Green Party) and Kelly Renee [...]

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