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Re: phone # to get Nader in debates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
Mon Sep 18 10:30:24 2000
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:29:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Payal Parekh <parekh@pimms.mit.edu>
To: Anton F Van Der Ven <avdv@MIT.EDU>
Cc: peace-list@MIT.EDU, peace-makers@MIT.EDU, greens-announce@MIT.EDU
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To follow up on Anton's email, it is important to also write letters to
editors of local newspapers and write to the national television
organizations.
Sample letters and more information can be found at
www.votenader.org
www.fair.org
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Payal Parekh
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Anton F Van Der Ven wrote:
> Third party candidates Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan are being
> excluded from upcoming presidential debates by the Commision on
> Presidential Debates (CPD). The CPD is run by representatives of
> the Democratic and Republican parties and subsidized largely by
> major corporations. The CPD invites only those candidates showing
> 15% or more in public opinion polls - triple the 5% of the vote
> necessary to receive matching Federal funds. It's time to
> give voters exposure to a broad array of candidates and ideas
> so they can make thoughtful and informed choices.
>
> Contact Janet Brown, Director of the CPD, at (202) 872-1020
> and urge her to allow third party candidates into the debates
> whose parties earn 5% of the vote.
>
