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Posts tagged as “Commission on Presidential Debates”

Gary Johnson Announces New CPD Lawsuit for 2016 Debates

Presidential Debate

In a recent fundraising letter Our America Initiative (OAI) claims:

“The Commission on Presidential Debates has an exclusive contract with the news media to monopolize presidential general election debates .…

CPD Format: Sufficient Time For Third Party Candidates?

The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the format and time allocations for the one Vice-Presidential and three Presidential debates. The first and fourth debates will be:

divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each .

US News & World Report: Johnson Could Be in Oct. 3rd Debate

In a 23 July 2012 article titled “Gary Johnson Could Appear in Presidential Debates” by Elizabeth Flock, staff writer for U.S. News & World Report, Janet Brown Executive Director of the Commission on Presidential Debates is quoted as saying, in an apparent reference to the requirement that Governor Johnson show at least 15 percent in selected pre-debate polls, that his supporters are “making assumptions about something that has not [happened].”…

The Eternal Debate on Debates

From the Topeka Capital-Journal:

Ken Cannon and Andrew Gray endorse third-party candidate participation in Kansas gubernatorial debates.

It is more than philosophical. It is personal.

Gray is the Libertarian Party’s nominee for governor, while Cannon carries the banner of the Reform Party on the November ballot.