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Petition for Inclusive Senate Candidate Debates in Ohio
  1. Signatures
    123 out of 1,000
    Petitioning
    1. The Columbus Dispatch (+ 14 others)
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      • The Columbus Dispatch (Ben Marrison)
      • Editor of Cincinnati Enquirer (Tom Callinan)
      • Executive Editor, Toledo Blade (Kurt Franck)
      • Managing Editor, Toledo Blade (Dave Murray)
      • The Canton Repository (Ed Balint)
      • The Canton Repository (Jeff Gauger)
      • Editor, The Plain Dealer (Susan Goldberg)
      • Managing Editor, The Plain Dealer (Debra Adams Simmons)
      • Reader Representative, The Plain Dealer (Ted Diadiun)
      • Dayton Daily News (Dayton Daily News)
      • Dayton Daily News (J. Dillon)
      • General Manager, The Youngstown Vindicator (Mark Brown)
      • Assistant Manager, The Youngstown Vindicator (Ted Suffolk)
      • General Manager, Akron Beacon Journal (Alton Brown)
      • Editor, Akron Beacon Journal (Bruce Winges)
  2. Created By
    Dan La Botz
    Cincinnati, OH
About this Petition Petition Letter

Once again, as in many elections in recent years, the Republican and Democratic parties and their sponsors are arranging candidate debates that exclude all but those two parties. Here in Ohio, the Republican candidate for Senate Rob Portman and his Democratic opponent Lee Fisher have arranged a debate series apparently barring from participation Dan La Botz, the Socialist Party candidate for U.S. Senate. Such exclusive debates keep information from the public and distort the political process.

We the undersigned, believing that an informed public and educated electorate are essential to good government, and believing that all candidates from all parties should have equal opportunity to face each other in public forums and to debate the issues before the public, therefore petition the Ohio Newspaper Organization (the primary organizer of the Senate debates) to insure that all of the candidates in the Ohio Senate race have an equal opportunity to participate in debates before the public. We call upon all candidates in Ohio and the sponsors of all debates and candidate forums to ensure that representatives of all legally registered parties are invited and included.

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Petition for Inclusive Senate Candidate Debates in Ohio

Greetings,

Once again, as in many elections in recent years, the Republican and Democratic parties, together with the corporate news media, are arranging candidate debates that exclude all but those two parties. Here in Ohio, the Republican candidate for Senate Rob Portman and his Democratic opponent Lee Fisher have arranged a debate series apparently barring from participation Dan La Botz, the Socialist Party candidate for U.S. Senate. Such exclusive debates keep information from the public and distort the political process.

We the undersigned, believing that an informed public and educated electorate are essential to good government, and believing that all candidates from all parties should have equal opportunity to face each other in public forums and to debate the issues before the public, therefore petition the Ohio Newspaper Organization (the primary organizer of the Senate debates) to insure that all of the candidates in the Ohio Senate race have an equal opportunity to participate in debates before the public. We call upon all candidates in Ohio and the sponsors of all debates and candidate forums to ensure that representatives of all legally registered parties are invited and included.

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