San Luis Obispo Tribune: Green Party Secretary of State Candidate to Crash Sacramento Debate

By Jim Miller

David Curtis, the Green Party candidate for secretary of state, said he will show up at Wednesday’s Sacramento Press Club luncheon debate featuring four of his rivals for the state’s top elections post even though he wasn’t invited.

Curtis, who the latest Field Poll shows leading two candidates included in Wednesday’s lineup, has harshly criticized the press club on social media. He has challenged the organization’s nonprofit status.

“I was very disappointed to learn that a social group of supposedly prominent journalists would feel it appropriate to exclude any candidates,” Curtis said in an interview, adding that he only learned of the event after he saw a rival mention it on Twitter.

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Tuesday, the San Diego-based Independent Voter Project called on candidates to boycott Wednesday’s event.

“The club has justified its position by claiming that Mr. Curtis was ‘rude,'” the group’s leaders, former state Sen. Steve Peace and former Assemblyman Jeff Marston, wrote. “If so, it is for voters to pass judgement, not the Press Club. We speak from experience when we say every candidate has a right to make an ass of themselves, and the voters have a right to see it.”

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