Posted on 07/13/2007 5:58:56 AM PDT by Libloather
Kucinich Camp Outraged by 'Overheard' Plans of Clinton and Edwards to Eliminate Candidates from Future Presidential Debates, Forums
Fri Jul 13, 4:16 AM ET
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Andy Juniewicz, Cleveland National HQ, Kucinich for President 2008, +1-216-409-8992, Ajuniewicz@aol.com
DETROIT, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Top campaign officials for Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich tonight expressed outrage that rival candidates Hillary Clinton and John Edwards were overheard collaborating on a strategy to eliminate other Democratic candidates from future debates and forums.
According to the Associated Press, Fox News Channel microphones picked up Clinton and Edwards on stage discussing their desire to limit future joint appearances to exclude some rivals lower in the crowded field. "We should try to have a more serious and a smaller group," Edwards said into Clinton's ear following a Presidential Forum in Detroit hosted by the NAACP on Thursday.
Clinton agreed with Edwards, according to print reports and video footage of the exchange. "We've got to cut the number. ... They're not serious," she said. Clinton added that she thought representatives of her campaign and Edwards' had already tried to limit the debates, and "we've gotta get back to it," according to the AP.
"Candidates, no matter how important or influential they perceive themselves to be, do not have and should not have the power to determine who is allowed to speak to the American public and who is not," said Kucinich.
"Imperial candidates are as repugnant to the American people and to our Democracy as an imperial President."
The Kucinich campaign will immediately take steps to address the planned actions of the Clinton and Edwards campaigns.
SOURCE Kucinich for President 2008
Is that a banjo I hear?
-PJ
-PJ
No way. Barbara Boxer's has reached her highest and best use as a foil for Dianne Feinstein. She makes Feinstein look sort of intelligent.
Sheehan makes everyone look more intelligent. If they ran together it could end the world as we know it.
In 1976 I represented both Gene McCarty (independent) and George Wallace's American Party who went all the way to the US Supreme Court over the exclusion of those two candidates from the Presidential Debates. That exclusion was sought by the Republican and Democrat candidates. But the League of Women Voters and all three major networks cooperated in the scheme. It was ruled to be legal every step of the way.
Congressman Billybob
John / Billybob
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