From KGNS TV via Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
Emily “Spicybrown” Sanchez, the Green Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, filed an Emergency Complaint with the Federal Communication Commission’s Media Bureau seeking inclusion in a Univision Dallas debate scheduled to take place Friday, October 24, 2014.
The complaint argues that KUVN-DT violated the Equal Time Rule by including Democratic and Republican candidates and excluding the Green and Libertarian candidates in its debate.
“Not only did Univision exclude all of the female candidates in the race, it excluded the only Mexican-American candidate and the only candidate that actually speaks Spanish,” stated Emily “SpicyBrown” Sanchez.The debate is scheduled to take place in English live at Mountainview College in Dallas and then later dubbed in Spanish and broadcast on Univision stations throughout Texas at 10:00 p.m. on October 25, 2014.
“This isn’t an episode of Mad Men and it’s not the 1950s. Television stations shouldn’t be allowing male candidates to debate and forcing the female and Latina candidates stay home and watch on TV. Its discriminatory and its unacceptable,” continued Sanchez.
Any debate that does not include all candidates on the ballot is a conformist circus, not a debate.
Keep up the good fight Spicy, things will not change until new people make it to Washington and Austin, and they are going to do everything possible to keep their 2 party system going, leaving countless people without a voice.