Candidate files complaint over debate exclusion [Does anybody even know this candidate?]

Hotair ^ | 08/03/2015 | Jazz Shaw

[grania]

If he's filed the papers and everything is in order, he is correct that he should be in the 5PM debate. Some of the Sunday AM TV talks were saying it's actually a better opportunity for them to break out, away from the Trump Show. (my description, not theirs).

Polls aren't supposed to choose who wins and who loses, and it's not even subtle anymore.

Another thing that's bothersome is that Trump was told he'd be kept off the stage if he didn't file his financial disclosures by a certain date. Then after he did that, extensions were given to exempt Jeb and Cruz from the requirement.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Since they all seem to to claim “Republican, why are they denizens of the party being held to accountability among the declared Pubbies?

Smoky back room...here we come!

[C210N]

Smoky back room...here we come!

So, FreeRepublic would find the candidate?

FR Smoky back room

[Iron Munro]

Will we have another media circus like 4 years ago with so many candidates on stage that the wide angle TV lens couldn’t take them all in at once?

No one at those debates was able to get more than a few minutes to speak.

That’s not a serious debate - it’s a media circus and diminishes the stature of serious candidates.

[gwjack]

Hi grania,

A couple of weeks ago I started looking at candidates that had announced and filed. I was having a hard time remembering the seventeen. I ran across Everson’s name then, and many others. I’m surprised that the issue of inclusion hasn’t been raised before.

The full list of the 37 (38 if you include Bob Ehrlick) is at this link.

http://2016.republican-candidates.org

Gwjack

[jjotto]

Small states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina offer plenty of opportunity for an unknown to gain support by going county to county and meeting with small groups, small town newspapers and local radio talk shows. Votes determine viable candidates, not the MSM directly.

[jjotto]

There are more than 100 Republican candidates:

http://www.fec.gov/press/resources/2016presidential_form2pty.shtml

[SampleMan]

Here is the issue. If I filed the paperwork, should I too be in the debates? How do you have a debate, or more accurately put a Q&A, with 50, 500, or 5000 candidates, most of which might be wearing clown costumes and auditioning for the next reality show?

The RNC should set the rules providing entry into its “debates”. The onus is on each candidate to provide some level of common support indicative that they are more than a printed name on paper.

I agree that polls are not the most reliable benchmark, but how else do you winnow the wheat from the straw as it were?

[TomGuy]

According to the FEC website, 530 individuals have filed for the 2016 presidential race. That number includes all parties and write-ins.

132 are listed as Republican Party.

http://www.fec.gov/press/resources/2016presidential_form2pty.shtml

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We’re gonna need a BIGGER debate stage!

[TomGuy]

No one at those debates was able to get more than a few minutes to speak.

Those in the kiddy debate (earlier debate) may actually have more time than those at the big-table debate.

There are 7 potentials for the earlier and 10 for the later.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oy! FIFTEEN more months of this!

[Yo-Yo]

I’m more interested in hearing from Jindal and Perry, but with ten people on stage it’s going to be a free-for-all anyway.

[grania]

I would make it quite complex to file, perhaps with a petition with a high number of supporters, a background check, and all the paperwork already in place.

Where I'm having trouble is that some candidates were given extensions to file their income statements, while others who filed everything that's required are being omitted.

[mosesdapoet]

I think a posting of Everson’s intention was posted here in FR’s

According to the reports I heard I believe there are 102 persons who have filed in the Republican party for POTUS.

The party should establish a rule based on demonstrating a requirement of having the organization and ability of having a following to file in the individual states. Which incldes electing delegates pledged to that particular candidate. Now all of the states have a much later filimg date for their individual primaries.

Setting up a so called debate between candidates this early in the election cycle without having at least 6 states even setting up their respective primarys and those names on their ballots is meaningless.

[pookie18]

Had seen him a couple of times on Neil Cavuto’s show after he’d declared his candidacy.

[Daffynition]

*Mark Whitty Everson is the Vice Chairman of alliantgroup and served as the 46th Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 2003 until 2007*

Good enough for tar & feathering.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: 46th Commissioner of Internal Revenue f

I’m not going to hold this against him.

He didn’t make the laws and somebody’s got to do it.

[Daffynition]

I’ll bet was great at keeping the status quo.

[Demiurge2]

I was hoping we’d get up to an even 18 candidates so they could field two baseball teams instead of messing with a debate (still need a couple of DH’s though).